Digital Praxis: Feminist Teaching and Critical Engagement

Developed by Karla J. Strand, DPhil, MLIS
Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian
University of Wisconsin
January 2026

This bibliography is number 108c in the series “Bibliographies in Gender and Women’s Studies,” published by the University of Wisconsin System Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian. It was developed as part of “Rooted in Justice: Fifty Years of Feminist Scholarship and Community Engagement – A set of bibliographies supporting the 2026 Conference of the UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium.”

Introduction

Instructors and students are engaging digital tools to both expand and complicate feminist pedagogy and activism. These tools can accelerate learning by reshaping how students think, research, and engage, but can undercut reflection, analysis, and critical questioning. These technologies broaden the global reach of feminist learning and enable new forms of transnational collaboration, even as their environmental toll disproportionately affects communities of color. This bibliography explores how we leverage the benefits of digital tools for feminist organizing and knowledge sharing while remaining attentive to how algorithmic bias, surveillance, online harassment, and digital exclusion can undermine our goals. Some resources explore how we integrate emerging technologies—such as AI-assisted writing, hybrid and asynchronous learning, gamification, digital humanities projects, and other interactive platforms—to foster collaboration, creativity, and access. Others will address how digital tools can deepen critical engagement, amplify marginalized voices, and reimagine feminist pedagogy while also grappling with ethical concerns and strategies for teaching students to navigate technology through a critical feminist lens.

This bibliography focuses on resources about digital pedagogies and praxes (mostly) published post-COVID. For more resources on pedagogies and digital feminism, see: