Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

After Clinic, I studied up on Donna Haraway and Cyborg Feminism. I found this rad cartoon illustrating Cyborg Theory. It seems especially important for its concern about the state of the body in the technology/information age, and also its account of race, class, and gender in this emergent culture/era.

I've been thinking about how cartoons/comics and quizzes/personality tests have been gendered male and female respectively, at least in my own generation's upbringing. ("Boys" read comic books about male and female superheroes with "perfect" bodybuilder-like physiques who play gender-normative roles, and "girls" read magazines with tips on how to conform to impossible, standardized beauty ideals and sex-gender normative quizzes that sort them into acceptable categories for consumption of self-identification).

So, perhaps using the comic format to talk about feminism is subversive? Also, I've noticed that Fausto-Sterling uses the cartoon format to illustrate key concepts from her book as well.

http://barclaybarrios.com/courses/cyberlit/media/cyborg1.html