Firewall

Networked Feminism in China

Feb. 19, 2016, 7:30 PM

Location: Orbital, 155 Rivington Street, NYC 10002.

Please join us for a FIREWALL exhibition viewing and reception from 5-7p at Chinatown Soup, 16B Orchard Street, NYC 10002, followed by a roundtable discussion about China’s Young Feminist Activists, and the role of the Internet in this movement at 7:30p at Orbital.

Panel VIDEO Recording

PANELISTS:

  • Susan E. McGregor, moderator, Assistant Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism & Assistant Professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she teaches data journalism & information visualization, with research interests in digital security.
  • Lu Pin, Program manager of Media Monitor for Women Network and chief editor of Feminist Voices, a major leading feminist alternative media in China.
  • Mingming & Shitou, queer filmmaker and artist collaborators/activists from Beijing, China.
  • Xintong Liu, designer, social innovator, and feminist organizer.
  • Siodhbhra Parkin, translator/Fellow of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School.
  • Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, visual artist and adjunct professor, creator of FIREWALL Internet Cafe, NYC

 

Lu Pin, Program manager of Media Monitor for Women Network and chief editor of Feminist Voices, speaks in front of audience
Audience at the panel discussion 'Networked Feminism in China', Chinatown Soup, NYC.
Susan E. McGregor, panel moderator, Assistant Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism & Assistant Professor at Columbia Journalism School
Shitou, queer filmmaker and activist from Beijing, China.
Mingming, queer filmmaker and activist from Beijing, China.
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Founder of FIREWALL
Xintong Liu, designer, social innovator, and feminist organizer.
Siodhbhra Parkin, Translator/Fellow of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School.
Barbara Pollack, art critic, curator, and journalist