Mardiya Siba Yahaya

Mardiya Siba Yahaya is a feminist digital sociologist, researcher and community movement builde

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Making space for the unkind

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This story weaves grief, ecological destruction, technological collapse, and political resistance into a narrative that questions the systems sustaining both digital infrastructures and extractive economies. Blending fiction, political commentary, and artistic imagination, the piece follows two characters grappling with loss, misinformation, and the erasure of working-class lives that sustain the global tech economy through mining and resource extraction at the behest of resource greedy tech authoritarians.

Melissa Maldon…

Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo is an artist, anthropologist, and writer.

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Imagining Feminist Technology Through Trajectories Rooted in Care and Inclusive Futures

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This article explores “coding care” as a feminist approach to reimagining technology around relationships, justice, and ecological responsibility. Drawing on diverse experiences, it highlights four trajectories that collectively show how feminist technologists are challenging extractive and exclusionary systems by building alternative infrastructures, learning spaces, and governance models. The piece argues for technology grounded in collective safety, accessibility, sustainability, and community autonomy as the basis for more just digital futures.

Pamilerin Samuel

Pamilerin Samuel is a writer whose work focuses on culture, media, and social issues.

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Feminist Repair Labs Reclaiming Technology in an Era of Climate Breakdown

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This article explores how feminist repair labs across the Global Majority reclaim technology as a practice of care, resilience, and climate adaptation. Starting from e-waste sites like Agbogbloshie in Ghana, it frames repair spaces as grassroots responses to extractive tech economies. These labs help sustain connectivity during crises while promoting collective knowledge and environmental responsibility.

Jacqueline Val…

Jacqueline Valledor Lucero is a Climate Reality Leader under the mentorship of former U.S.

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Natural Disasters Are Revealing the Impact of Digital Divide on Vulnerable Communities in the Philippines

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This article examines how natural disasters in the Philippines expose deep digital inequalities. Focusing on Typhoon Haiyan, it shows how damaged communication infrastructure left communities struggling not only to survive, but to access aid systems dependent on digital verification. It highlights how digital access is critical to survival, recovery, and recognition in crisis contexts.

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Video Games are a Reflection of the Manosphere that Researches Them

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The author argues that misogyny in gaming does not end with toxic players or online harassment, but is reproduced within the very research and institutional structures that shape the industry. Drawing on personal experience in a European games research lab, they examine how “manosphere” dynamics persist offline through exclusion, tokenism, and subtle professional undermining.

Eesha Lavalekar

Eesha Lavalekar is a mental health researcher working with iHEAR Sangath with interests in s

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iHEAR TransNet: Intersectional experiences of TFGBV among the trans, non-binary and gender diverse communities in India

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Adopting an intersectional and participatory approach, this article shares the stories of how transgender, non-binary and gender-diverse people experience TFGBV, what strategies they employ to resist and safeguard themselves, and what barriers exist in accessing support.

Gulbakhor Makhkamova

Gulbakhor Makhkamova is the founder and Chair of the Board of the Trustees of the Gulru

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“I am drowning under the weight of hatred”: The scope and nature of TFGBV in Tajikistan

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Set against Tajikistan’s political and social structure, this article highlights how TFGBV exists as a continuum with offline violence, reinforcing patriarchal values and established gender norms that have power over women and are used to control them.

Mikhael Adams

Mikhael Adams is pursuing a Masters' in Psychological Research at the University of Cap

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A decolonial feminist exploration of Black women and gender non-conforming people’s experiences of technology-facilitated gender-based violence

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The article reveals how Black women and gender non-conforming persons experience TFGBV differently due to historical and geopolitical factors, and how TFGBV is used to silence bloggers and journalists doing feminist works.

Sabiha Allouche

Sabiha Allouche is Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the Institute

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Witnesses, militants, martyrs: When technology meets borders

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In the era of AI-automated annihilation, the authors bring us through the many questions on what and how a truly decolonial act looks like – what sabotaging the tools of colonial genocide and occupation, and embracing limitations as anti-colonial praxis, could look like.

Analía Lavin

Analía Lavin, Uruguay, Professor, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

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Between survival and resistance: Digital rights of sex workers in Uruguay

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This article reflects on how the increased digitalisation of sex work has provided opportunities for greater independence and safety, but it also exposes them to violence and surveillance and intensifies precarity by transferring costs and risk onto sex workers.