In the scope of my research, a feminist programming language is to be built around a non-normative paradigm that represents alternative ways of abstracting. The intent is to encourage and allow new ways of thinking about problems such that we can code using a feminist ideology.

To succinctly sum up my research thus far I will outline the decomposition of my question below:

The idea came about while discussing normative and feminist subject object theory. I realized that object oriented programmed reifies normative subject object theory. This led me to wonder what a feminist programming language would look like, one that might allow you to create entanglements (Karen Barad Posthumanist Performativity).

I realized that to program in a feminist way, one would ideally want to use a feminist programming language. So what is a feminist programming language? Well I took a look at the major programming paradigms, the following are the four main groups a programming language can fall into: imperative, functional, object-oriented, and logic. I decided to explore feminist logic such that a feminist programming language could be derived.

I am currently exploring feminist critiques of logic in hopes of outlining a working framework for the creation of a feminist programming language.

If this is something you are interested in and would like to give me some feedback on I would truly appreciate it. Thank you for any and all feedback. I would love to open up a dialogue about what I am working on and my approaches to answer my research question.

NOTE: Hi everyone, I wanted to first say thank you so much for starting such an amazing conversation around this idea. I am currently working on a few different ways to explain this research as I know the text above is full of theoretical ideas from a variety of disciplines with a lot of academic language.

I look forward to responding to all the comments below, though it may take a bit of time.

In the mean time, I wrote another blog titled A Feminist && A Programmer explaining why I am interesting in this line of research which is linked below:

http://www.hastac.org/blogs/ari-schlesinger/2013/12/13/feminist-programmer