Collage: Cyborgs

Amiee Zhao will graduate from Emory College of Arts and Sciences in 2026. She is double majoring in English and Politics, Philosophy, Law. Outside of Diverge, she is also an avid writer and leaf collager.

This collage explores the concept of women as cyborgs—hybrid human/non-human beings, or robot/animal-like organisms. Donna Haraway was the first scholar to theorize cyborgs as a response to the long tradition of objectifying women by anatomizing their bodies and denying them fundamental rights. Despite apparent progress in feminism, this misogynistic trend persists—in pop culture magazines like People, for example, where women’s sexuality is either attacked or fetishized. The author tore elements from a recent issue of People and reassembled them to investigate how this tradition might be challenged.