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Lucía Trias

Lucía Trias tiene una maestría en investigación de diseño, de la fundación Bauhaus Dessau, así co

Review

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

Posted Tue 8 Dec 2020 - 10:49 | 7,052 views

Design justice advocates for processes of design that do not extract or appropriate the knowledge of users but build systems and software that are of use to them, rather than to companies and designers themselves. In this review of the book on design justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock, there is a call to subvert and upend the process of designing and to make it about justice rather than…

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Divya

Divya Srinivasan is a human rights lawyer and activist from India, with a background in research,

Feminist talk

Set me up, knock me down: Legal Obligations of Dating Apps to address Sexual Violence

Posted Thu 3 Dec 2020 - 03:44 | 15,356 views

Recent reports reveal that hundreds of people experience sexual harassment and abuse on Tinder and damningly, that Tinder largely ignored survivors. What is the legal and ethical obligation that dating platforms have when their platform is repeatedly used by sexual assaulters to prey on women and others? 

Nyx

Nyx McLean (they/them) is a rated transdisciplinary researcher in LGBTIAQ+ identities, the intern

Feminist talk

Include LGBTIAQ+ voices in internet governance conversations

Posted Tue 1 Dec 2020 - 05:24 | 4,312 views

In this article, Nyx McLean calls for a diverse representation of LGBTIAQ+ people and issues in the conversations around the internet, and for the adoption of an intersectional approach to organising the IGF.

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Lia Aroeira

Lia Aroeira is a singer and researcher of voice, body, words and people.

Feminist talk

Connected to care: Coronavirus and women's challenges in community networks

Posted Tue 24 Nov 2020 - 10:53 | 3,042 views

GenderIT and Locnet invited women who work in community networks to share their experiences in the times of COVID-19. This is one of the stories that got to be told about the acts of care in communication technologies under the pandemic.

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Selam Mussie

Selam is a media and communications consultant specializing in gender and media as well as media

Feminist talk

Rambles of Everyday Resistance

Posted Fri 20 Nov 2020 - 05:46 | 4,061 views

A beautiful essay that explores how to navigate the complexities of sexuality and personhood for Ethiopians, and how the traditional form known as qene or wax-and-gold is the perfect metaphor for negotiating and living dual realities.

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Ledys Sanjuan Mejia

Ledys Sanjuan Mejia is a colombian ecofeminist activist with more than 6 years experience in digi

Feminist talk

Feminists are building their own technology to organise but where are funders?

Posted Thu 12 Nov 2020 - 05:49 | 7,631 views

Feminist activists have played an important role in raising issues around freedom of expression and especially in the internet rights community; also in pointing out how internet rights of those marginalised on account of gender, sexuality, gender expression are even more precarious. But where is the funding for feminist work on technology and infrastructure?

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Ani Hao

Ani Phoebe Hao is a feminist writer, editor, researcher and consultant.

Feminist talk

Bárbara Paes on Black feminist cyberactivists in Brazil and the neoliberalism of "women in tech"

Posted Tue 10 Nov 2020 - 11:36 | 4,668 views

Ani Hao interviews Bárbara Paes, a young Brazilian feminist, co-founder of Minas Programam. In this conversation they delve into Black feminist activism in Brazil, feminism funding and the co-optation of gender issues in technology spaces.

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Nadege

Nadège ha formado parte de proyectos de tecnología transfeminista como

Feminist talk

Webcomic: The Internet's Footprint | Part 3

Posted Tue 10 Nov 2020 - 10:35 | 4,876 views

In the third part of the webcomic "The footprint of the Internet", Nadège tells us how green washing hides the complex intersections between technologies, territory and capitalism. But the resistance and self-determination of communities persists...

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Chenai Chair

Chenai Chair’s interest in the ICT sector developed from learning of mobiles for development whil

Feminist talk

Privacy in the time of a pandemic: how is your data doing?

Posted Tue 20 Oct 2020 - 04:30 | 6,110 views

A three part series that dives into the concerns around privacy and data in Africa in the context of artificial intelligence and also covid-19 from a feminist data justice perspective.

Learning how to care: a more mindful relationship with digital technologies
Nadege

Nadège ha formado parte de proyectos de tecnología transfeminista como

Feminist talk

Webcomic: The Internet’s Footprint | Part 2

Posted Tue 13 Oct 2020 - 18:07 | 9,543 views

Inhabiting internet causes a huge footprint on land, nature and bodies. An impact that can be violent and abusive. But we can learn how to create a more attentive and sensitive relationship with digital technologies.