GenderIT.org
Launched in 2006, GenderIT.org is a groundbreaking resource site that provides feminist reviews and commentary on internet policy and culture. It started as a site monitoring policy developments on ICT and gender, and from its beginnings has been unique. Initially it was one of the first sites looking at ICT policy through a gender lens. Many years later, GenderIT.org remains a unique space for its focus on the global South, its focus on those working at the grassroots level (grounded in the experience of the women in the society in which they live), and its emphasis on both advocacy and social justice.
We can be heroes: Towards public and legal recognition of online gender-based violence
Online violence, bullying, harassment, theft of identity, non-consensual circulation of intimate images - are now being recognised as offences in most countries, and acknowledged in public discourse as misogyny and attempts to silence women and gender-diverse people from participation in public life and denying them their rights to free expression and association, especially online. This…
[Edición] Autonomía y acciones críticas para erradicar la violencia de género en internet
Son muchos los grupos de mujeres de todo el mundo que el año pasado comenzaron a investigar, buscar datos, revisar documentos y entrevistar a activistas y decisoras/es para consolidar informes consistentes sobre violencia de género en los espacios digitales, que golpea principalmente a las mujeres y a la diversidad sexual. El objetivo principal de tanto trabajo fue aportar al informe que la…
Feminist talk
Conversaciones en la ciudad: Imaginando una internet feminista
In depth
Cuestionar y desafiar los sistemas construidos sobre la desigualdad
Making a feminist internet: Building movements, remembering resistance, hacking security and care
From the cataclysmic and profoundly loud speaking out that took place spontaneously across varied contexts with #metoo to understanding, owning and building feminist infrastructure, there is a lot that we can do as feminist activists. In this edition we take a peek at the Making a Feminist Internet meeting in Malaysia that took place early October, 2017.
Feminist talk
Women's Gaze: Interview with Ninka Khaindrava
"We cannot be what we cannot see": Mapping gaps in research in gender and information society
The articles in this bilingual edition point to how visibility of our bodies and our stories is the starting point of a different way of being. The stories we tell of struggles and perseverance, of movements and solidarity – entangled as they are in the fine wires of technology – are necessary and essential and could be the foundations for the movement for change. This edition is not…
Mapeo: el activismo del movimiento de mujeres se expresa en internet
Feminist talk
A Woman Coder's Journey (Women-in-tech)
Gender, Labour, Technology
This edition on gender, labour, technology examines how gendered labour is embedded in the making of digital devices in the hardware industries spread across Asia, how inequities of gender and other dynamics of caste, race, ethnicity continue to play a role in allegedly emancipated corporate spaces across the globe, and the disturbing strands of gendered labour of volunteering and managing…
