Xenofeminism

Xenofeminism (XF) is less a group of artists or a physical commune than a jointly authored position paper turned into an ongoing platform: a technomaterialist, anti-naturalist, gender-abolitionist feminism drafted collectively by six theorists writing under the invented collective name Laboria Cuboniks and released online in 2015 as “Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation.”

It reframes feminism's relationship to technology, reason, and “nature,” refusing any politics that treats biology or embodiment as destiny and insisting instead — in its most quoted line — that “if nature is unjust, change nature.” It emerged directly from, and against, the accelerationist milieu, asking what an explicitly feminist accelerationism could be.

Feminism should seize science and technology to abolish the appeal to “nature” that underwrites gender injustice — engineering freer conditions rather than defending any given nature.

• [0]“if nature is unjust, change nature”
• [1]technomaterialist, gender-abolitionist feminism
• [2]alienation embraced as a tool
• [3]the manifesto as collective code

A small collective (Laboria Cuboniks) working under a shared name, propagating a manifesto and set of ideas through theory, art, and online circulation.

A prominent strand of 21st-century feminist theory, influencing debates on technology, gender, and the body, and the wider technofeminist and left-tech discourse.