XENOFEMINISM: A POLITICS FOR ALIENATION
XENOFEMINISM: A POLITICS FOR ALIENATION LABORIA CUBONIKS Laboria Cuboniks is a xenofeminist collective born in 2014. She seeks to "dismantle gender, destroy 'the family', and do away with nature as a guarantor for inegalitarian political positions". The manifesto promotes embracing alienation, seeing it as freedom rather than restriction, and as grounds for collective organization. It urges the need for the unification of the political left, as well the need to use and repurpose existing technology to reshape our world. If biology and nature decide what is natural and what is not, what restricts one gender from another, she promotes changing the framework on which the classification is made altogether. 'If nature is unjust, change nature!'
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Ours is a world in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with technological mediation, interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, virtuality, and complexity. XF constructs a feminism adapted to these realities: a feminism of unprecedented cunning, scale, and vision; a future in which the realization of gender justice and feminist emancipation contribute to a universalist politics assembled from the needs of every human, cutting across race, ability, economic standing, and geographical position. No more futureless repetition on the treadmill of capital, no more submission to the drudgery of labour, productive and reproductive alike, no more reification of the given masked as critique. Our future requires depetrification. XF is not a bid for revolution,
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