Publications

Books

Articles, Chapters, and Essays

Mulvin, Dylan and Cait McKinney. 2023. “The Girl in the Bubble: An Essay on Containment.” Catalyst 9(1). https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38131

McKinney, Cait and Dylan Mulvin. “High-Touch Media: Caring Practices at the Deaf AIDS Information Center.Feminist Media Histories 9(1), 2023.

McKinney, Cait and Marika Cifor. “On Digital Models: Responding to Viral Metaphors in Pandemic Times.” Catalyst 8(2), 2022.

Mulvin, Dylan and Cait McKinney. “Someone Made a ‘Covid NFT’ and Sent It to 96,000 people without asking.” Future Tense: Slate.com, 2022.

Brown, Elspeth, Cait McKinney, Dan Guadagnolo, Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez, Sid Cunningham, Caleigh Inman, Zohar Freeman, Amal Khurram, Alisha Krishna, and Mackenzie Stewart. “Transmediation as Radical Pedagogy in Building Queer and Trans Digital Archives.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 16(2), 2022.

McKinney, Cait. “Computers Made of Paper, Genders Made of Cards.” In ReUnderstanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan, edited by Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh, 142–162. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022.

McKinney, Cait. “Crisis Infrastructures: AIDS Activism Meets Internet Regulation.” In AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, edited by Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, Nishant Shahani, 162–182.  Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020. (open access version)

Cifor, Marika and Cait McKinney. Reclaiming HIV/AIDS in Digital Media Studies. First Monday. 2020.

McKinney, Cait and Dylan Mulvin. Bugs: Rethinking the History of Computing. Communication, Culture and Critique, 2019.

McKinney, Cait and Allyson Mitchell. Lesbian Rule: Welcome to the Hell House. Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dyke Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and other Lesbian Hauntings (UBC Press, 2019)

McKinney, Cait. “Finding the Lines to my People”: Towards a Media History of Queer Bibliographic Encounter. GLQ (2018) (open access version)

McKinney, Cait. Printing the Network: AIDS Activists and Online Access in the 1980s. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (2018) (open access version)

McKinney, Cait and Hazel Meyer. Play, Rewind, Repeat: Queer Porn Archives and the Digital Afterlives of VHS. Tape Condition: degraded (2016). Also printed in PHILE: The International Journal of Desire and Curiosity (2017) and Little Joe: Queers and Cinema (2015).

McKinney, Cait. Can a Computer Remember AIDS? Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture (2016)

McKinney, Cait and Hazel Meyer. Tools for the Feminist Present. No More Potlucks (2016)

McKinney, Cait. Newsletter Networks in the Feminist History and Archives Movement. Feminist Theory (2015) (open access version)

McKinney, Cait. Body, Sex, Interface: Reckoning with Images at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Radical History Review (2015) (open access version)

McKinney, Cait and Dylan Mulvin. “Not a game, Not a game, Not a game”: Outline of Some Theories of Practice.” Seachange: Art, Communication, Technology (2015)

McKinney, Cait. Out of the Basement and on to the Internet: Digitizing Oral History Tapes at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. No More Potlucks (2014)

McKinney, Cait. Leibovitz and Sontag: Picturing an Ethics of Queer Domesticity. Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture (2010)

Exhibition Texts for Artists and Galleries

McKinney, Cait. There is thunder in our hearts. In Michèle Pearson Clarke: Muscle Memory . Catalog text, Art Gallery of Hamilton (2022).

McKinney, Cait. The Anti-Archive as Trans Archival Future. Response Text for Trans Archival Futures Screening and Talk with Chase Joynt and Chris E Vargas, VIVO Media Arts Centre (2020).

McKinney, Cait and Hazel Meyer. Sweaty Concepts. Exhibition text for Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre (2015).

McKinney, Cait. Avian Visions in Spandex: Karen Kraven’s Flip Flop, Punch Front. Exhibition text for Mercer Union, a Centre for Contemporary Art (2015)

McKinney, Cait. The One About Baby. Exhibition text for Open Studio Contemporary Print Making Centre (2015)

McKinney, Cait. 2014. Muscle Panic. Text for Muscle Panic Handbook, edited and illustrated by Hazel Meyer. Mercer Union, a Centre for Contemporary Art (2014)

Reprinted in INCITE Journal of Experimental Media 7/8, 2017.