Storytending is a Verb! Activating Participatory Feminist Media Praxis Through Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities

This dissertation draws on my experience as a filmmaker, scholar, and co-organizer of the Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities collective to outline a feminist filmmaking and oral history archiving praxis I call storytending. Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities is a research collective that was launched in 2010 at the University of Washington by Michelle Habell-Pallán, professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, and Sonnet Retman, associate professor in American Ethnic Studies. The project brings together scholars, musicians, media-makers, performers, artists, and activists to explore the role of women and popular music in cultural scenes and social justice movements in the Americas and beyond. It encompasses three interwoven components: Teaching: project-based coursework at the graduate and undergraduate levels; Convening: an annual participant-driven unConference and film festival; Archiving: an oral history digital archive housed with the University of Washington Digital Libraries Initiatives. My study approaches this project’s interconnected aspects of teaching, convening, and building an oral history archive through the lens of media production and the role it plays in threading these three components together. My research examines feminist participatory digital media practices that disrupt patriarchal story-capturing processes that are the standard for most film and media industries, the academy, community-based media production agencies, and independent practitioners. In so doing, it brings into focus a feminist analysis of gender, power, and labor, in film, media, and oral history archiving, to better understand how digital media production can be used as a tool of emancipation, collective creative practice, and feminist pedagogy inside and outside academia.

Author dc:creator

• Macklin, Angelica

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Habell-Pállan, Michelle

• Archiving
• Cultural Production
• Feminisms
• Music
• Oral History
• Storytending
• Gender studies
• Film studies
• Social research

Statement dc:rights

• CC BY-NC

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1773/51655

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/51655