The Chinese Cyberfeminism Archive (CCA) is a semi-public, quasi-formal, self-reflective archive that preserves the bodies and specters of defunct feminist websites, forums, and blogs from the late 1990s to early 2010s, including those within and adjacent to the Chinese Internet. Engaging in a slow archive approach and self-developed web-crawling programs, it explores the potential of archiving as a cyberfeminist practice, and attempts to create space for feminist and queer memories in a time when censorship-induced data loss has become the norm.

The CCA web archive currently features 38 of the 120+ found sites while we continue to make updates and contemplate: What does it mean to build an archive of lost feminist sites considering the present ecology of the Chinese Internet? What is archivable and unarchivable? (And how do we remember the invisible/ghostly?) What should feminist methods of archiving look like?

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ephemeral:data\ (Crassula Shang, i-want-cookies, and YoEve) is a collective of artists, researchers, and creative technologists based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York. They work with an expanded concept of Chinese cyberfeminism and create imperfect archives with found digital ephemera.