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Sexual assault and digital evidence in India (Part 2): Your right to privacy versus the right to complain

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Jue, 09/16/2021 - 16:36

In the second and last part of this in-depth article, the author unpacks the persistence of rape myths in judicial reasoning, even veiled under the promises of neutrality and accuracy of digital evidence.

#FreeBritney #Freeall

Florencia Rodríguez Vida reflexiona, a partir del movimiento #FreeBritney, sobre los innumerables casos de restricciones de la autonomía y libertad de las mujeres, entre los cuales el de la cantante pop es apenas uno de los más visibles, por tratarse de una artista con reconocimiento y privilegios.

Sexual assault and digital evidence in India (Part 1): Is electronic data deciding whether a woman has been raped or not?

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Vie, 09/10/2021 - 20:28

This insightful piece highlights how digital evidence is overwhelming the legal and judicial imagination by looking specifically at cases of rape trials in India.

Can social media platforms tackle online violence without structural change?

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Mar, 08/17/2021 - 14:53

We welcome Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter commitments to tackle online abuse on their platforms, however without ensuring that the systems they create do not reproduce, and amplify existing inequalities. Built-in safety tools will only mitigate harms from the surface.

Can social media platforms tackle online violence without structural change?

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Mar, 08/17/2021 - 14:53

We welcome Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter commitments to tackle online abuse on their platforms, however without ensuring that the systems they create do not reproduce, and amplify existing inequalities. Built-in safety tools will only mitigate harms from the surface.

Conoce algunas (¡solo algunas!)de las estrategias que están usando las mujeres y las comunidades LGBTQ+ para hacer de internet un espacio más saludable

Laura Vidal analiza tres iniciativas presentes en el Informe de Salud de Internet, de Mozilla, que vienen de las comunidades que más sufren la violencia en línea.

r/chickflixxx: feminist (de)construction of online porn

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Vie, 08/06/2021 - 16:03

How does porn take shape based on the audience's perspective and the practice of sharing and commenting on available online content? This article, based on a digital ethnographic analysis of a Reddit community, explores what feminist porn means on the internet.

Internet minada y seis reglas para entender las narrativas anti- derechos

Florencia Goldsman reseña el estudio "Generando odio: los contornos de la desinformación en linea con enfoque de género, alineada con el Estado", que agrega piezas para armar el rompecabezas de las violencias digitales dirigidas a socavar nuestras presencias en línea.

La brecha de género en Wikipedia: repensar nuestras intervenciones

En una nota anterior nos preguntamos: ¿es la edición de artículos la única forma de intervención válida en Wikipedia? En este artículo queremos analizar si las estrategias de intervención han dado los resultados esperados, y de qué forma.

Transgender Act in India: A law that replicates existing challenges with digitisation?

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Jue, 07/15/2021 - 22:14

In India, the digitisation drive of services interlinked with offline violence, marginalisation and stigma make it almost impossible for transgender persons to be considered as people who deserve equal rights. Through the provisions mentioned in the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019, this article gives us a glimpse of human rights violations and denial of a life with dignity.

Transgender Act in India: A law that replicates existing challenges with digitisation?

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Jue, 07/15/2021 - 22:14

In India, the digitisation drive of services interlinked with offline violence, marginalisation and stigma make it almost impossible for transgender persons to be considered as people who deserve equal rights. Through the provisions mentioned in the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019, this article gives us a glimpse of human rights violations and denial of a life with dignity.

The identity predicament: a story about statelessness and the fight for denied rights

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Jue, 07/15/2021 - 21:27

The system of integrated biometric database in Kenya, Huduma Namba, exposes multilayered challenges of statelessness, loss of basic human rights and availing government services. Through conversations with Mariam, a Nubian woman, we learn about the tedious and extremely long waiting period to obtain an ID card, without which people from ethnic minorities are not counted as citizens, and are pushed to the margins.

The identity predicament: a story about statelessness and the fight for denied rights

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Jue, 07/15/2021 - 21:27

The system of integrated biometric database in Kenya, Huduma Namba, exposes multilayered challenges of statelessness, loss of basic human rights and availing government services. Through conversations with Mariam, a Nubian woman, we learn about the tedious and extremely long waiting period to obtain an ID card, without which people from ethnic minorities are not counted as citizens, and are pushed to the margins.

#MeToo India: The limits of analysis

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Mar, 07/06/2021 - 16:17

In this paper, researcher Nayantara Ranganathan analyses tweets with the hashtag #metooindia, and examines the possibilities, limits and contradictions of studying a movement through a dataset of tweets centred around a phrase.

Juntas y revueltas: explorando territorios de la economía feminista

Juntas y revueltas: explorando territorios  de la economía feminista es una publicación de Colectiva XXK - Feminismos, pensamiento y acción y SOF Sempreviva Organização Feminista. Este  texto  es  una  elaboración  en  torno  a  algunos   territorios  de  la  economía  feminista,  entendida como  una  propuesta  política  que  articula  contenidos (conceptos, análisis y agenda) y formas organizativas que no disocian lo económico y lo político.

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Platforms, Power, and Politics: Perspectives from Domestic and Care Work in India

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Jue, 07/01/2021 - 22:53

CIS has been undertaking a two-year project studying the entry of digital platforms in the domestic and care work in India, supported by the Association for Progressive Communications as part of the Feminist Internet Research Network. Implemented through 2019-21, the objective of the project is to use a feminist lens to critique platform modalities and orient platformisation dynamics in radically different, worker-first ways. Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi led the research team at CIS. The Domestic Workers’ Rights Union is a partner in the implementation of the project, as co-researchers.

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Creating and Caring for Feminist Digital Archives in Africa

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Mié, 06/23/2021 - 20:58

This article explores the labour and determination that goes into preserving African women’s history, reclaiming online spaces and, more importantly, ensuring that these stories remain accessible and continue to grow for the future generation to come.

Erotics regional survey 2020 Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka: A different contextual exploration on sexuality, rights and the internet

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Jue, 06/10/2021 - 15:00

At different times over the past seven years, the Association of Progressive Communications Women’s Rights Programme (APC WRP) project EROTICS: Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet has conducted surveys among its worldwide network of gender and sexuality activists, advocates, professionals and academics. APC launched the EROTICS network in 2009 to begin research in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, South Africa and the United States.

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r/chickflixxx: (de)construcción feminista del porno en internet

¿Cómo se construye el porno, desde la mirada de las espectadoras, a través de las prácticas de compartir y comentar el material pornográfico disponible online? Este artículo, basado en un ejercicio de etnografía digital en una comunidad de Reddit, explora los sentidos del porno feminista en internet.

Queer lust and internet orgasms

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Mar, 06/08/2021 - 22:05

In this piece, the author investigates how they witnessed alternative porn that in its core is feminist, queer and diverse on the internet

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