The manifesto is organised through a somatic theorisation of glitch that celebrates the phenomenon as a way to cut into oppressive systems and may offer possibilities to stitch together more consensual worlds. The book takes up twelve moments of glitch – as a metaphor, as a tool, and as a revolutionary attitude – spread over as many sections to offer an exegesis on a contemporary queer Black aesthetics. In Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020) curator Legacy Russell thinks through the concept of “the glitch” to mediate a post-internet, non-binary, fourth-wave feminist poetics. Useless we disappear, ghosting on the binary body.
When we reject the binary, we claim uselessness as a strategic tool. When we reject the binary, we challenge how we are valued in a capitalist society that yokes our gender to the labor we enact. When we reject the binary, we reject the economy that goes along with it.
