I’ve never read “A Cyborg Manifesto”. I’ve tried a little but then I realized it’s not contingent upon my understanding but perhaps only my assent based on the ‘gist’.
I’ve been referred to as feminist of various kinds and in my mind I would occasionally substitute “egalitarian” out of some sense that I “should” – much as how at that time, I “should” have been smoking “Marlboro Reds” instead of “light menthol 100 cigarettes” (when I smoked) – but generally I didn’t mind either way.
However, once upon a time later I embarked on a mission to figure out: if I am a feminist, what ‘kind’ fits? While I don’t think of myself as a transhumanist, the chimera notion in Cyborg Manifesto (what I know of it) was appealing.
So I probably naturally fit in that of “cyberfeminism” — and yet, I’ve also learned that _included within_ that, there is not necessarily any contradiction in the formation of more of a pluralism – perhaps described well enough by the notions of intersectional feminism — -and that multiple contradictory notions of feminism can co-inhabit in parallel and intersecting even those that would never consider the label of feminism as describing themselves with –