A Future for Intersectional Black Feminist Technology Studies

Safiya Umoja Noble’s article is an important entry point into Black feminist technology studies. It refuses to treat search engines, platforms, and digital infrastructures as neutral tools, placing them instead within histories of racial capitalism, gendered representation, and informational power.

The article matters because it gives a theoretical frame for later work on algorithmic oppression and search bias. Noble is not only interested in isolated algorithmic mistakes. She asks how technical systems position Black women, girls, and other marginalized groups as consumable, surveillable, and misreadable.

For FemRes, this text pairs well with Black Feminism, Algorithmic Bias, Data Feminism, and Technology Critique. It reminds us that digital feminism should not only ask how women use technology, but how technical knowledge, platform economies, and search infrastructures organize visibility and harm.