Diana Cage
Projects and Books
Familiar Systems
Curriculum Vitae
Diana Cage is a scholar, writer, and playable-media designer working across feminist science and technology studies, critical computing, digital humanities, feminist and queer theory, and human-computer interaction. Her research examines how computational systems organize affect and public discourse, with particular attention to artificial intelligence and platform cultures. Her creative research includes videogames, bots, augmented-reality experiments, and speculative interfaces that use making as a method of critical inquiry.
Cage is a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies and Science & Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her research project, Machine Feelings, investigates how computational infrastructures shape public feelings and discourse.
Before entering academia, Cage worked extensively in queer media, including serving as editor of the groundbreaking lesbian erotic magazine On Our Backs, as well as Velvetpark, and GO magazine. She hosted The Diana Cage Show on SiriusXM and appeared as a guest commentator across television and digital media. She is the author of multiple books on sex and relationships, including the Lambda Literary Award-winning The Lesbian Sex Bible and Mind-Blowing Sex.
Cage’s work in public media and queer cultural production continues to shape her scholarship on public humanities, cultural memory, sexuality, and technological mediation.