Abi Awomosu

In 2016, the last year of my undergraduate degree, I wrote an essay about the through line of subjugating women to administrative and servile roles, from the mid-century secretarial role, through sexualised companion characters like Halo's Cortana, to incorporeal but still female-coded virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa. It wasn't that well executed so I'm not linking it here, but I do stand by the overall analysis. The female ideal…