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Interview with Women's Media Collective, Sri Lanka: About lesbian tutorials and other strategies

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Jue, 12/21/2017 - 12:57
As part of the EROTICS research, the Women's Media Collective, Sri Lanka did research on 1) human rights of Sri Lanka lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer and 2) is on use of online space by lesbian women. In this interview by Shubha Kayastha, WMC talks about their process and recommendations.

Image source: Shubha Kayastha (sketch by participants in a sexuality workshop). Title: freedom of thought. Description: Art work showing different way in which one can access knowledge and enjoy sexual rights.

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Sexuality and the internet: Findings from the global survey (2017)

GenderIT.org in-depth - Mié, 12/20/2017 - 10:40
Since 2013 the EROTICS global survey has been carried out three times by APC-WRP to assess and learn about the role of information and communication technologies in the work of its worldwide network of gender and sexuality activists, advocates, professionals and scholars. The survey was particularly designed to reflect about their experiences and responses to online violence and censorship. Here the lead researchers involved in the survey introduce the findings from the survey.

At three different times over the past four years, the EROTICS Project: An Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet, by the APC Women’s Rights Program, sent out a questionnaire to its worldwide network of gender and sexuality activists, advocates, professionals and scholars, to learn about the role of information and communication technologies in their work. The survey was particularly designed to reflect about their experiences and responses to online violence and censorship.

Co-author:  Horacio Sivori

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Sexuality and the internet: Findings from the global survey (2017)

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Mié, 12/20/2017 - 10:40
Since 2013 the EROTICS global survey has been carried out three times by APC-WRP to assess and learn about the role of information and communication technologies in the work of its worldwide network of gender and sexuality activists, advocates, professionals and scholars. The survey was particularly designed to reflect about their experiences and responses to online violence and censorship. Here the lead researchers involved in the survey introduce the findings from the survey.

At three different times over the past four years, the EROTICS Project: An Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet, by the APC Women’s Rights Program, sent out a questionnaire to its worldwide network of gender and sexuality activists, advocates, professionals and scholars, to learn about the role of information and communication technologies in their work. The survey was particularly designed to reflect about their experiences and responses to online violence and censorship.

Co-author:  Horacio Sivori

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The Internet, Sexual Expression and Online Violence in Nepal: Interview with LOOM, Nepal

GenderIT.org in-depth - Mar, 12/19/2017 - 17:02
LOOM is a Nepal-based feminist organisation that works towards harnessing the collective power of women through multi-generational activism especially around sexual rights and sexual citizenship. As part of the EROTICS project, LOOM has been part of two studies conducted on the internet and sexual expression and online gender based violence, and in this interview they share more about the research.

Photo of workshop conducted by LOOM in Nepal. Photo credit: LOOM

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The Internet, Sexual Expression and Online Violence in Nepal: Interview with LOOM, Nepal

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Mar, 12/19/2017 - 17:02
LOOM is a Nepal-based feminist organisation that works towards harnessing the collective power of women through multi-generational activism especially around sexual rights and sexual citizenship. As part of the EROTICS project, LOOM has been part of two studies conducted on the internet and sexual expression and online gender based violence, and in this interview they share more about the research.

Photo of workshop conducted by LOOM in Nepal. Photo credit: LOOM

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“This research has become a bit of an obsession”: Interview with Point of View

GenderIT.org in-depth - Mar, 12/19/2017 - 15:42
Point of View as part of EROTICS (Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet) project undertook an extensive research to understand how law constructs obscenity online, and to identify specific instances of non-consensual sharing of intimate images, and the various ways in it is punished or acquitted. This study specifically looks at implementation of new laws under the Information Technology Act of India.

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.

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“This research has become a bit of an obsession”: Interview with Point of View

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Mar, 12/19/2017 - 15:42
Point of View as part of EROTICS (Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet) project undertook an extensive research to understand how law constructs obscenity online, and to identify specific instances of non-consensual sharing of intimate images, and the various ways in it is punished or acquitted. This study specifically looks at implementation of new laws under the Information Technology Act of India.

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.

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Flesh rather than word

GenderIT.org feminist talk - Mar, 12/19/2017 - 11:51
In 2017 the Independent Expert for Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression and the Yogyakarta +10 principles acknowledged the specific social, cultural, health and other issues that are faced by those who are gender non conforming, and non-binary. This article looks at the online lives of those who challenge, play with, question and disrupt the gender binary, and do more - who are visibly and obviously queer.

Image source: Second Life avatar of Nadika Nadja
THE QUEER SUBJECT AND VIOLENCE IN ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES

Feminist talk

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Flesh rather than word

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Mar, 12/19/2017 - 11:51
In 2017 the Independent Expert for Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression and the Yogyakarta +10 principles acknowledged the specific social, cultural, health and other issues that are faced by those who are gender non conforming, and non-binary. This article looks at the online lives of those who challenge, play with, question and disrupt the gender binary, and do more - who are visibly and obviously queer.

Image source: Second Life avatar of Nadika Nadja
THE QUEER SUBJECT AND VIOLENCE IN ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES

Feminist talk

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[Columna] Ser o no ser anónimo, ahí el dilema

genderit-feninist talk-es - Mié, 12/06/2017 - 12:35
Entendemos que internet es una nueva esfera pública donde se dan debates y se tejen redes. Sin embargo toda interacción en internet converge desde dos planos: el digital y el físico, es decir una identidad digital que transita desde la web y el lugar físico desde el que estas tipiando sea un smartphone o computadora, por lo tanto ¿cómo podemos asegurarnos del anonimato?

Cuando estaba en el colegio era común entre las niñas de la escuela pasar en clases un cuaderno en el que respondíamos diferentes preguntas: nuestra materia favorita, color o programa de tv que más nos gustaba. A medida que pasaban las hojas del cuaderno, el tono de las preguntas subía hasta preguntar quién te gusta y si habías besado a un chico.

Éramos sinceras con nuestras respuestas porque creíamos ciegamente en el anonimato del “chismografo”, hasta que alguien se enteraba quien te gustaba y pedias a gritos que te tragara la tierra.

Feminist talk

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[Columna] Ser o no ser anónimo, ahí el dilema

Entendemos que internet es una nueva esfera pública donde se dan debates y se tejen redes. Sin embargo toda interacción en internet converge desde dos planos: el digital y el físico, es decir una identidad digital que transita desde la web y el lugar físico desde el que estas tipiando sea un smartphone o computadora, por lo tanto ¿cómo podemos asegurarnos del anonimato?

Cuando estaba en el colegio era común entre las niñas de la escuela pasar en clases un cuaderno en el que respondíamos diferentes preguntas: nuestra materia favorita, color o programa de tv que más nos gustaba. A medida que pasaban las hojas del cuaderno, el tono de las preguntas subía hasta preguntar quién te gusta y si habías besado a un chico.

Éramos sinceras con nuestras respuestas porque creíamos ciegamente en el anonimato del “chismografo”, hasta que alguien se enteraba quien te gustaba y pedias a gritos que te tragara la tierra.

Feminist talk

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[Entrevista] Una internet feminista debe anclarse en acciones concretas

En profundidad de GenderIT.org - Lun, 11/13/2017 - 14:04
¿Es internet la quintaesencia de la comunicación? Muchas mujeres se encuentran al borde de alguno de los puntos cruciales que constituyen un desafío para el movimiento de mujeres hoy en día. Se ven enfrentadas al patriarcado todos los días y, en algunos casos, se ven obligadas a lidiar con problemas aún más peligrosos. El movimiento de mujeres se basa en historias de mujeres y sus acciones diarias, en línea y en las calles. Sobre estas cuestiones y muchas más conversamos con la feminista africana Maggie Mapondera.

Maggie Hazvinei Mapondera, nacida en Zimbabwe, es una feminista híbrida que trabaja en el cruce entre el feminismo de las comunidades de base, la comunicación feminista y la creación del movimiento

En esta entrevista, Maggie reflexiona sobre la situación actual de la tecnología e internet en relación al movimiento feminista y la organización y participación de las mujeres en el día a día, a nivel mundial.

Koliwe Majama: Hablemos sobre tu trayecto como activista feminista. ¿Qué es lo que te apasiona y lo que más te motiva?

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[Entrevista] Una internet feminista debe anclarse en acciones concretas

¿Es internet la quintaesencia de la comunicación? Muchas mujeres se encuentran al borde de alguno de los puntos cruciales que constituyen un desafío para el movimiento de mujeres hoy en día. Se ven enfrentadas al patriarcado todos los días y, en algunos casos, se ven obligadas a lidiar con problemas aún más peligrosos. El movimiento de mujeres se basa en historias de mujeres y sus acciones diarias, en línea y en las calles. Sobre estas cuestiones y muchas más conversamos con la feminista africana Maggie Mapondera.

Maggie Hazvinei Mapondera, nacida en Zimbabwe, es una feminista híbrida que trabaja en el cruce entre el feminismo de las comunidades de base, la comunicación feminista y la creación del movimiento

En esta entrevista, Maggie reflexiona sobre la situación actual de la tecnología e internet en relación al movimiento feminista y la organización y participación de las mujeres en el día a día, a nivel mundial.

Koliwe Majama: Hablemos sobre tu trayecto como activista feminista. ¿Qué es lo que te apasiona y lo que más te motiva?

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Making a feminist internet: Building movements, remembering resistance, hacking security and care

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Vie, 11/10/2017 - 14:08

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.

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[EDITORIAL] Making a feminist internet: Movement building in a digital age

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Vie, 11/10/2017 - 12:47

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?

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Journeying through sexuality, activism and the internet

GenderIT.org in-depth - Jue, 11/09/2017 - 11:37
Kenya has few protections for the people within its own country who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or queer. In this article Njeri Gateru traces their journey and that of the organisation National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in Nairobi - the difficulties they have faced and their use of online tools and spaces.

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.

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Journeying through sexuality, activism and the internet

Feminist reflections on internet policies - Jue, 11/09/2017 - 11:37
Kenya has few protections for the people within its own country who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or queer. In this article Njeri Gateru traces their journey and that of the organisation National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission in Nairobi - the difficulties they have faced and their use of online tools and spaces.

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.

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Las que ‘tejen’ con fibra óptica contra la violencia digital a las mujeres

En profundidad de GenderIT.org - Mié, 11/08/2017 - 20:32
La vigilancia digital es un tipo de violencia específica que ataca la libertad de las mujeres para organizarse, expresarse y manifestar su disidencia, y el intercambio desigual de datos redunda en un mayor control del cuerpo femenino. Entrevista a Graciela Natansohn.

La vigilancia digital es un tipo de violencia específica que ataca la libertad de las mujeres para organizarse, expresarse y manifestar su disidencia, y el intercambio desigual de datos redunda en un mayor control del cuerpo femenino, por lo que es esencial que ellas se apropien de las tecnologías y no solo las usen, también las desarrollen, reflexionó la investigadora argentina-brasilera Graciela Natansohn.

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Las que ‘tejen’ con fibra óptica contra la violencia digital a las mujeres

La vigilancia digital es un tipo de violencia específica que ataca la libertad de las mujeres para organizarse, expresarse y manifestar su disidencia, y el intercambio desigual de datos redunda en un mayor control del cuerpo femenino. Entrevista a Graciela Natansohn.

La vigilancia digital es un tipo de violencia específica que ataca la libertad de las mujeres para organizarse, expresarse y manifestar su disidencia, y el intercambio desigual de datos redunda en un mayor control del cuerpo femenino, por lo que es esencial que ellas se apropien de las tecnologías y no solo las usen, también las desarrollen, reflexionó la investigadora argentina-brasilera Graciela Natansohn.

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PodCat Feminist spectrum and infrastructure

GenderIT.org in-depth - Mié, 11/08/2017 - 09:08
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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.

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