Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

DJS choice

Exiled love, getting it on and consent

Posted Wed 11 Mar 2015 - 02:56 | 3,959 views

By Tarryn Booysen

DJ's choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to…
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YildizTar

Yıldız Tar is a journalist and author from Turkey.

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Homonationalism, queer fraternity and the death of the radical queer

Posted Mon 9 Mar 2015 - 01:51 | 4,344 views

By Yildiz Tar

DJ's choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to…
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flavia

Flavia Fascendini vive en una ciudad en el interior de Argentina y es directora de comunicaciones

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Join APC's campaign and events at the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York

Posted Fri 6 Mar 2015 - 08:05 | 6,217 views

By Flavia Fascendini

Between 9 and 20 March, APC's Women's Rights Programme members will be attending the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York. This year the main focus of the session will be on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which turns 20. How far have we come, and how can you participate?
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Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

DJS choice

Gender selective abortion, big breasts and badasses

Posted Mon 23 Feb 2015 - 01:50 | 4,697 views

By Tarryn Booysen

DJ's choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to…
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Rohini Lakshane

Rohini Lakshané is a long-time Wikimedian with an abiding interest in issues of access to knowled

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A selection of tweets on how to make crowdmaps effectual for mapping violence against women

Posted Mon 16 Feb 2015 - 03:07 | 4,415 views

By Rohini Lakshan​​é

Check out this amazing selection of tweets by Rohini Lakshané on crowsourced mapping of violence against women and how to make them more effectual.
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Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

DJS choice

Dangerous laws, LGBT domain and the inspirational tech guru

Posted Sun 15 Feb 2015 - 14:34 | 4,754 views

By Tarryn Booysen

DJ's choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to…
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Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

DJS choice

Selfies, banned photos and LGBT bullying gets better

Posted Fri 30 Jan 2015 - 01:36 | 5,328 views

By Tarryn Booysen

DJ's choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to…
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genderit.org team

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Gender and Tech Pop-up Institute: New approaches to privacy and security

Posted Wed 28 Jan 2015 - 04:38 | 3,525 views

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Organised by Tactical Technology Collective and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), at the beginning of December last year, 76 women and a small group of men – human rights advocates, feminists, techies, activists – descended on an ageing East German ‘Schloss’ (manor house) near the border of Poland for seven days of training, collaboration, discussion, and knowledge exchange.
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jennifer

Jennifer is a South African feminist and coordinates APC's work in supporting women human rights

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Interview with Yvonne Oluoch: Winner of the #IncYOUBateIT competition hosted by Making All Voices Count

Posted Tue 20 Jan 2015 - 06:34 | 7,708 views

By Jennifer Radloff

"In a continent where women form a majority of the population and half of the workforce, it is an anomaly that the percentage of women working in technology is less than 15%. Technology is one of the key factors driving Africa’s projected economic rise. As such, there is enormous potential for maximizing the growth of technology through increasing the number and quality of women in technology."
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Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

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Building women’s access to justice: Technology-related VAW in law and corporate policy

Posted Sat 10 Jan 2015 - 10:25 | 8,725 views

By Tarryn Booysen

This article is based on the issue paper written by Namita Maholtra as part of the APC "End violence: Women´s rights and safety online” project entitled "Good questions on technology-related violence", and on a strong alliance with partners in seven countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan and the Philippines. Looking at tech-related…
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