My glitch weavings explore the correlation between women’s bodies and computers. Each piece is hand woven in the traditional craft of weaving and/or a combination of other fiber-based crafts, which have historically been considered “women’s work.”
Women are devalued and dismissed during the menopause transition, according to patriarchal medical literature. Postmenopausal women are frequently overlooked by society, too, as if once our bodies and faces begin to age, we become useless.
So, perimenopause is akin to a glitching computer system; our biological systems are glitching.
At first, I considered this glitching to be a negative. I felt like an outdated computer running on old software. Despite how difficult the transition has been, I now view it not as a devaluation, but a system upgrade. I glitch as my system updates, and I become Version 2.0—a better version of me.
“The glitch is a passage through which the body traverses toward liberation, a tear in the fabric of the digital… Be the glitch. Let the whole goddamn thing short-circuit.” —Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism
