Feminist reflections on internet policies
“This research has become a bit of an obsession”: Interview with Point of View
Image source: Digital storytelling workshop organised by Point of View.
Bishakha Datta and Smita Vanniyar talk to GenderIT about their research on Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Flesh rather than word
Image source: Second Life avatar of Nadika Nadja
THE QUEER SUBJECT AND VIOLENCE IN ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES
Making a feminist internet: Building movements, remembering resistance, hacking security and care
Over 80 people engaged in wildly different kinds of feminist activism across the world gathered together to discuss what does it mean to build movements around feminist principles, women’s rights, sexuality and related issues in the digital age. From the cataclysmic and profoundly loud speaking out that took place spontaneously across varied contexts with #metoo to understanding, owning and building feminist infrastructure, there is a lot that we can do as feminist activists.
[EDITORIAL] Making a feminist internet: Movement building in a digital age
What does movement building look like in a digital age? Even as we are increasingly aware of and dependent on the internet for public engagement and mobilisation of ideas, have networked technologies significantly impacted on the characteristic and sustainability of movements?
Journeying through sexuality, activism and the internet
Image taken from website of National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
“Do you remember the first time you used the internet?” someone asked at the APC Making a Feminist Internet gathering in Malaysia this October.
PodCat Feminist spectrum and infrastructure
In this podcast we’re going to talk about women, technology, infrastructure and the electromagnetic spectrum, from a feminist perspective. First off, let’s understand technology as ways of being, living, loving, suffering, resisting, organising, cooking...all are ancestral forms of technology. We also have infrastructure - the elements that make technologies operate so powerfully.
Women's Gaze: Interview with Ninka Khaindrava
Image source: Ninka Khaindrava. First women march against online violence and attacks against women in Georgia
Ninka Khaindrava works for Women's Gaze in Georgia as their communications person. Women's Gaze is also part of the FRIDA network for young women. Here is our interview with her on the work they do and the connections they seek with other people, organisations, women's movements across the world.
Namita Aavriti: Can you tell us about your context and the kind of work you do?
Feminist talkInterview with Lili_Anaz: A body that knows itself ...
A body that knows itself and knows that together with others it can generate a very strong force to hack any system.
The following interview was done with the help and interpretation by Erika Smith.
Impact for what and for whom? Digital technologies and feminist movement building
How does technology impact in our feminist movements? from APC on Vimeo.
Feminist talkInterview with Just Associates SouthEast Asia
Fungai Machirori speaks to a representative of Just Associates in South-east Asia in this interview that took place at the Making a Feminist Internet convening in early October in Malaysia. JASS is a global organisation that is now working on new digital forms of activism and organising. JASS believes that women who are most affected by the political, economic, environmental and health crises reverberating across the world are on the frontlines of change.
[COLUMN] Sanitary Panels on Mansplaining
Sanitary Panels is ironic yet hard hitting. Here social commentary masquerades as a web comic and makes us rethink many of our assumptions. This comic explores aspects of gender and technology including discrimination faced by women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education and careers.
Image description: Comic using stick figures
Feminist talkAutomation and the future of work: bringing women into the debate
Article republished from Institute of Development Studies.
Insights from the AI Summit, London
[COLUMN] How womxn in the global south are RECLAIMING SOCIAL MEDIA to shine the spotlight on disability
Genna & Felix by Kate Arthur. Image source: @katearthurartist
A university friend of mine was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) a few years ago and as a result of the disease is now disabled. Reading the posts she shares on social media about how she navigates the world as a disabled person has made me more aware of how disabled-unfriendly our world is. Whether intentionally or not, her posts on social media are helping shine a spotlight on disability. This inspired me to do some research into how other womxn in the Global South are doing the same.
Feminist talkTalking digital security and language with Chido Musodza
Picture of Chido Musodza doing a training. Image source: Daphne Jena, Chido Musodza
Feminist talkPolitics of a feminist internet in Zimbabwe: Resistance and Silence
Image from Max Pixel and Wikimedia commons
For the Harare City Conversation recently held, I was particularly invested in having a conversation about the internet, and Twitter in particular, as public space for organising and resisting, cognitive of the trajectory my online critiquing, writing and general feministing has taken over the last three years.
Feminist talk[COLUMN] How womxn in the Global South are RECLAIMING SOCIAL MEDIA to celebrate being queer
Image source: To Revolutionary Type Love. Artist/source: Kawira Mwirichia
Feminist talk[COLUMN] How womxn in the Global South are RECLAIMING SOCIAL MEDIA to celebrate being queer
Image source: To Revolutionary Type Love. Artist/source: Kawira Mwirichia
Feminist talk[SPECIAL EDITION] Taking the girl's revolution online: Interview with Ghadeer Ahmed
Photograph from Girl's Revolution Facebook Page against the ban on wearing skirts in Saudi Arabia
Ghadeer Ahmed created Girl's Revolution on Twitter and Facebook a year after the revolution on Jan 25 2011 in Egypt. In this interview with Yara Sallam she traces the difficult and rewarding journey of talking about women's rights, body, sexuality, violence and harassment and sharing this with many other women and girls online.
[SPECIAL EDITION] Expert on my own Experience: Conversations with Neo Musangi
Source: Own work by Neo Musangi. Title: Manpower, installation
I begin my interview with trepidation. In my experience in India, trans, gender non-conforming, non binary and intersex people are wary of knowledge projects, and with good reason. There is a history of epistemic violence here – of being surveyed, written about and made into metaphors around fluidity of gender (and even sexuality) with a bare minimum of participation from those who are gender non-conforming, non binary, trans or intersex.
"We cannot be what we cannot see": Mapping gaps in research in gender and information society
The articles in this bilingual edition point to how visibility of our bodies and our stories is the starting point of a different way of being. The stories we tell of struggles and perseverance, of movements and solidarity – entangled as they are in the fine wires of technology – are necessary and essential and could be the foundations for the movement for change.
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