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Cyberfeminism is the correlation between the feminist movement and technology and cyberspace. Although cyberfeminism emerged in the early 1990's, female artists and media creators such as Lynn Hershan Leeson had work that honored the ideologies of the movement. According to a text published by Trevor Scott Milford, a prominent contributor to the rise of cyberfeminism was the lack of female discourse and participation online concerning topics that were impacting women. The movement began to pick up more traction from 1991 through 1997, where a conference focused on cyberfeminism took place according to historyofcyberfminism.com. Since then, other forms of cyberfeminism that are intersectional to more audiences have developed, such as black cyberfeminism and xenofeminsm.

Xenofeminism, or the movement that incorporates technology into the abolition of gender, is a concept that is intersectional to cyberfeminism. It is diificult to find an exact time period of when the concept began; however the Xenofeminism Manifesto by Laboria Cuboniks published in 2018 is what sparked the momentum of the movement. According to a journal published by Jilly Boyce Kay, the movement has three main characteristics: It is techno-materialist, anti-naturalist, and advocates for gender abolition. This means that the movement contradicts naturalist ideals that state that there are only two genders and aims toward the abolition of the "binary gender system". Xenofeminism differs from cyberfeminsm because while it has similar ideals, it is inclusive to the queer and transgender communities.