What does it mean to gather when your hands don’t touch the soil, but your reach spans wires, screens, archives and affinities? For designer-researcher Mindy Seu, to call herself a gatherer is to collaboratively assemble disparate pieces of a digital ecosystem, and to build containers that hold their multiplicities. In this light, the Cyberfeminism Index becomes a site of radical assemblage: a book and website pairing that tracks over a thousand entries at the intersection of feminism, queerness, and digital technologies.

Co-created with designer and educator Laura Coombs, this archive doesn’t simply record women + tech, nor does it celebrate the smooth diffusion of feminism into cyberspace. Instead, it invites queered, anticolonial, trans-friendly perspectives, mapping the complex feedback loops between bodies, machines, networks and identities. From hacker collectives to net-art gestures, from screen-based interventions to ephemeral online publics, the Index expands what we might call cyberfeminism: a shifting, self-reflexive terrain of political-technological experiment.

Originally seeded as a Google Sheet, the archive grew through community input, an open call to share practices, affinities and genealogies. When global movements such as Black Lives Matter and trans resistance branded the digital realm as both battleground and laboratory, this archive stood out for its invitation to collaborate and remix. The website offers searchable access to the field, while the print book plateaus the network into a tactile form: a physical anchor for the fluidity of the digital world.

The entries themselves fluctuate: early ones buzz with cyberpunk-inspired urgency, later ones settle into generative clarity, flagging the subtle shift of discourse. In one entry, scholar Julia R. DeCook asks us to imagine cyborg theory beyond whiteness. Another titled QueerOS: A User’s Manual, asks us to advance a theory of queerness as technological, operative, and systemic.

This isn’t just an archive, it’s a living invitation: contribute, cross-link, remix. It’s for the hackers, the queers, the activists, the dreamers of interface worlds. A space to gather, to map, to que(e)r. The Cyberfeminism Index opens itself up to all those who build, disrupt and imagine in the networked intersections of feminism, queer resistance and technology.

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