Abstract
Read The Feminist Manual is a re-appropriation of RTFM (Read The Fucking Man- ual) and addresses gender discrimination in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities and the lack of support in accommodating marginalized voic- es. The output of the research is an experimental Firefox addon which replaces gendered pronouns he and she with the neutral pronoun they, intended for use with online technical documentation pages, where the programmer is assumed to be a male (he). The project is accompanied by a zine, in which the readers can find information about the inspiration of the project, about the Firefox addon and screenshots of the addon’s implementation in the browser. Along with the proj- ect’s documentation, the zine introduces the significant role of feminist servers in shaping a queer community of sysadmins to nurture gender diversity. Read The Feminist Manual research was realized during the author’s fellowship at the Media Enterprise Design Lab of Boulder University of Colorado.
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