Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities

Full Stack Feminism aims to embed intersectional feminist methodologies in digital humanities. It achieves this by developing an interoperable ‘Full Stack Feminist’ (FSF) methodology and toolkit. It develops this approach by focusing on three areas, referred to as stacks:

• data and archives
• infrastructure, tools and code
• access, experience and integration.

The project builds on the work of Dr Sharon Webb, Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Co-Director of the Sussex Humanities Lab, and Dr Cécile Chevalier. It highlights and addresses specific points in project development that, often unconsciously, manifest inequalities or bias in, for example data models, archival descriptions, access rights, and tool functionality.

It develops an interoperable FSF methodology that software teams, programme managers, database designers, digital arts practitioners and data scientists can review and apply to their work. This enables digital humanities practitioners to re-evaluate the structures in which they work. It also creates new intersectional digital humanities spaces, with the hope that practitioners will consider a feminist methodology throughout their work and the development lifecycle.

This project is a collaboration between the Sussex Humanities Lab at University of Sussex and National University of Ireland, Maynooth. It is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Irish Research Council. It is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Irish Research Council.