Glitch Feminism: Legacy Russell's Manifesto for Digital Resistance

Legacy Russell, curator and queer artist, follows her video work Black Meme with the essay Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, published by Verso Books in 2020. The book explores how digital natives navigate the contradictions of online platforms, proposing glitch as a strategic error to disrupt normative visual culture. Russell argues that breaking what is already broken can be a correction, drawing on artists like manuel arturo abreu, Kia LaBeija, and Tabita Rezaire, whose queer and Black practices challenge dominant art canons. The manifesto positions glitch feminism as a toolkit for resisting what Russell calls the "violent socio-cultural machine," emphasizing the opacity of the internet and algorithmic control. It connects to movements like Algorithms of Oppression and Distributed Blackness, and highlights TikTok as a site for critical discourse on race and gender. The book aims to push the art world toward a breaking point by recognizing these artists' works.