Serene Lim
Serene Lim is a feminist activist, researcher and writer based in Malaysia who works on the intersection of feminism, tech, power and social injustice. She is the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN)’s Research Communications Officer at the Association for Progressive Communications and the co-founder/co-lead of Mata SEA, a Southeast Asia Feminist Tech Transnational Collective. Her proudest works include a resource toolkit for online gender-based violence and research that looks at technology and freedom of expression from a feminist lens.
Editorial
Reading ourselves: Feminist data analysis and relational praxis
In this editorial, the authors reflect on how feminist research is not only about “expertise”; it is a practice of relationality, care and critically engaged meaning-making in connection with the people and movements at the heart of our research.
Editorial
Caring to know and make a difference
Through the third cycle of Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) and this edition, the FIRN team has attempted to offer a different perspective on who gets recognition as a knowledge producer and how research can be a political act that disrupts knowledge formation, serving as an entry point for networking, connecting and movement building.
In depth
Misogyny as a commodity in digital spaces
Violence has a way of manifesting itself across different platforms – SMS, Zoom, Telegram, Facebook including the newly emerging platforms like Tik Tok and Clubhouse. The problem, therefore, lays not merely in the technology itself, but the underlying logic and profit model that propels the modus operandi of the algorithm, the content moderation policy and all other technologies deployed to…
Feminist talk
We are Sisters in Islam
In 2019 the High Court of Malaya (Malaysia) upheld a fatwa ruling that bans the organisation Sisters in Islam for going against Islamic teachings. In particular, this ruling limits their use of social media. Read more to hear about the complexities of activism and speech in Malaysia for feminist groups and individuals.
In depth
Observing a community network in the Philippines through a gendered lens
In this interview, Serene Lim dives deep into what are the gender implications of making a community network in a remote area of the Philippines - from tackling gender stereotypes to the distribution of labour of running a community network to the benefits of access for communities often overlooked by telecommunications companies.
In depth
Breaking online gender-based violence
An understanding of online gender-based violence as part of the structure of cultural and social violence that women face is essential to finding solutions or to combat it. In this article Serene Lim delves into what could be feminist legal approaches to online GBV, the alleged opposition to free speech and the multi-generational work required to dismantle frameworks of patriarchal oppression…
Feminist talk
[SPECIAL EDITION] There is no opting out.: Indigenous women in Malaysia and questions of access
Feminist talk
A place for all: On being diverse and inclusive @RightsCon
