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Communications technologies and biotechnologies are the crucial tools recrafting our bodies. These tools embody and enforce new social relations for women world-wide. Technologies and scientific discourses can be partially understood as formalizations, i.e., as frozen moments, of the fluid social interactions constituting them, but they should also be viewed as instruments for enforcing meanings. The boundary is permeable between tool and myth, instrument and concept, historical systems of social relations and historical anatomies of possible bodies, including objects of knowledge. Indeed, myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

- Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto

We exist as frozen moments on our curated social media pages. We delude ourselves into thinking that this is how we relate to each other. We think we’re making the rules, but we actually don’t have that power. The embodiment of technology is happening to us without our consent. How much of us is machine and how much of us is human? I see our humanity dwindling rapidly while completely tethered to technology. I am not a luddite. I am not anti-technology. What I’m concerned about though is that social media platforms are biased and they honor the continued freezing of ourselves and our activism in online spaces.