robotgirl in a way that focuses on the constructed nature of femininity and how it interacts with automation, with artificial intelligence, with the tech industry's upward climb to create a woman it's okay to exploit. robotgirl in the sense that someone programmed siri and alexa to have feminine voices. robotgirl in the sense that all gender is synthetic. robotgirl in the sense that girlness and robotness are things other people decide about you, things other people program into you. robotgirl in the sense that figuring out who you are and overriding your proprietary code are the same damn thing when you're up against a lifetime of social conditioning. robotgirl in the sense that you have come into a body that is not yours, and have been assumed to have a gender and a sexuality that are not yours. robotgirl in the sense that in the absence of a creator, you create yourself anew.
