This Week in Preserving the Feminist Internet
Learn more about the archived webpages of The Feminist Art Project and supersisters™.
TFI recently launched our new project, Preserving the Feminist Internet, alongside our Kickstarter campaign, which was, last week, appointed one of Kickstarter’s Projects We Love! Up to our $25,000 goal, your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar by one of our generous supporters.
As this project develops, we’ll ingest our web captures into the TFI Digital Archive and post updates on our Substack and blog. This post will specifically explore some of the captures we’ve recently done.
The Feminist Art Project (TFAP)
Earlier this year, TFI captured The Feminist Art Project (TFAP)’s website and social media as a part of TFAP’s transition to its new administrative home at the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA). TFAP is an international collaborative initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement and the aesthetic, intellectual, and political impact of women on the visual arts, art history, and art practice, past and present. These captures highlight TFAP’s activity at Rutgers before its move to WCA.
TFAP’s impact on the visual arts has been incalculable, and we have been overjoyed working with them to preserve their digital materials. As a part of our work with TFAP, we will be ingesting its comprehensive calendar archive of feminist art happenings from 2006 to 2023 into the TFI Digital Archive, in addition to other archival materials, such as extensive audiovisual materials from the TFAP Days of Panels at the College Art Association Conference.
The Feminist Art Project, The Feminist Art Project homepage (Rutgers), 2023.
Captured as part of a partnership between The Feminist Art Project and The Feminist Institute, 2023.
See record in TFI Digital Archive.
The Feminist Art Project, The Feminist Art Project Twitter, 2023.
Captured as part of a partnership between The Feminist Art Project and The Feminist Institute, 2023.
See record in TFI Digital Archive.
supersisters™
supersisters™ was one of our first collaborative digitization projects, so we were excited to capture their website to include alongside digitized ephemera in our archive. supersisters™ was a project started by Lois Rich and her sister Barbara Egerman, after Lois’ daughter, Melissa Rich questioned why she didn’t see any women on trading cards. The original supersisters™ deck contained 72 cards featuring accomplished women in politics, law, journalism, sports, business, literature, theater, entertainment, and activism. The cards were first distributed in 1979. The supersisters™ homepage highlights the current efforts to relaunch the trading card series for a new generation.
supersisters™, supersisters™ homepage, 2023.
Captured as part of a partnership between supersisters™ and The Feminist Institute, 2023.
See record in TFI Digital Archive.
supersisters™, supersisters™ homepage, 2023.
Captured as part of a partnership between supersisters™ and The Feminist Institute, 2023.
See record in TFI Digital Archive.
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