Research as movement building: A feminist perspective on researching technology-facilitated gender-based violence

Wed 23 Apr 2025

This Edition is a collection of reflections and analytical essays by FIRN and FIRN’s research partners on what it means to do research at this critical juncture, while having to go through the unbearable pain of witnessing genocide, conflict and…

Unmute and Uplift: Online Solidarity Movements Highlighting the Struggles of Structurally Silenced Women

Mon 25 Nov 2024

This special edition of GenderIT brings together five powerful stories from OVOF project partners in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, and India, spotlighting the lived struggles of structurally silenced women and people. These stories capture not only…

Celebrants of Diversity and Community Seekers: Reflections from Central Asia and the South Caucasus

Wed 13 Nov 2024

This edition traverses a broad spectrum of personal and political themes, offering deeper insights into the often-overlooked threads in the fabric of community infrastructure, while keeping the experiences of people at the heart of the discussion…

Global attention to Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV): Feminist Perspectives

Thu 24 Aug 2023

This edition focuses on research done by researchers part of the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) that attempts to understand Online Gender Based Violence (OGBV) in an expansive way by showcasing interconnections of technology…

Algorithmic Anxieties & Feminist Futures in MENA

Fri 28 Jul 2023

For a region like the MENA (which some authors refer to as S/WANA, others as Arabic-speaking countries), tech policy problems are compounded with a litany of daily struggles, most devastating of these being occupation,…

A Feminist Conversation on Cybersecurity

Mon 26 Jun 2023

This edition focuses on the human dimension of cybersecurity. To do this, the editors asked themselves how cybersecurity policies developed from the centres of political, economic and epistemological power affect those at the margins; and how…

On Holding Half The Sky: Stories of Resilience From The Horn Of Africa

Wed 18 Jan 2023

The editors co-created this edition as a reflection of the ever-dynamic and actively resilient mosaic they know to be embodied in each daughter of the Horn.

Access Denied: Gender Digital Divide As A Form Of Violence in South and Southeast Asia

Mon 12 Dec 2022

While the significance of digital access cannot be contested, in small pockets of Asian communities and households, the internet continues to be a luxury for most people for various reasons, including the lack of financial resources, absence of…

Trans Perspectives On Technology And Politics From Latin America

Thu 24 Nov 2022

This edition encompasses the fused multiverses coexisting among trans populations, across the Latin American Global South, also known by the Kuna peoples as Abya Yala. From visual arts to political science, this writing collection maps and…

Hacking hate

Fri 17 Jun 2022

Governments and technology companies profit politically and economically from the vitriole, violence and attention that hate speech attracts. So people, and especially women and LGBTQI+ people, have evolved responses and ways of hacking hate.…