Word Weavers: Josephine Starrs and Virginia Barratt

Womanica

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Society & Culture, Education, History

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Josephine Starrs and Virginia Barratt were among the creators of the VNS, an Australian feminist art collective born in the early days of the world wide web in the 1990s. The group is credited with coining the term "cyberfeminism."

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1:23.8	This month, we're talking about word weavers, people who coined terms, popularized words, and even created entirely new languages.
1:31.3	These activists, writers, artists, and scholars used language to shape ideas and give voice to experiences that once had no name.
1:38.3	Today we're stepping into the early days of the internet.
1:43.3	It's the 1990s in Adelaide, Australia, and two women have joined forces to create a powerful cultural movement, cyberfeminism.
1:52.0	The iconic duo took Australia by anarchy, spreading their techno-feminist vision through video installations, events, computer games, and billboards.
2:00.0	They referred to themselves as the virus of the New World computer games, and billboards. They referred to themselves
2:01.9	as the virus of the New World Disorder and the Terminators of the Moral Codes. Please meet Virginia
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