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Decolonising Internet Governance
In the last five years, reports on connectivity around the world show remarkable progress: those of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recorded a year-on-year increase of 9% and 20%, respectively, in fixed and mobile broadband subscriptions, while this growth is even stronger in the global South.
A technopolitical approach to online gender-based violence:
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Do we need new laws to address non-consensual circulation of intimate images: the case of Brazil
Image source:Poster from InternetLab, Gender and other social markers.
Cyber violence against women: the case of Bangladesh
Detail of poster: End violence against women now! More details here
1. Introduction
Intersection of identities: Online gender and caste based violence
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Breaking online gender-based violence
To write about online gender-based violence (GBV) is to write about everything for it is oppression so pervasive that it is natural and normalised. Yet, it is also to write about nothing. It is rarely new or original even when it is perpetrated online.
Hidden figures - A look at technology-mediated violence against women in India
Detail of poster designed for conference by Syeda Tanzeela Husain, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi for the National Dialogue on gender-based Cyber Violence.
SWIPE ME LEFT, I’M DALIT
Detail of collage by Flavia Fascendini
In plain sight, on sexuality, rights and the internet in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
In plain sight, on sexuality, rights and the internet in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
A feminist framework at the intersection of Internet with sexuality and rights
Interview with Women's Media Collective, Sri Lanka: About lesbian tutorials and other strategies
Image source: Shubha Kayastha (sketch by participants in a sexuality workshop). Title: freedom of thought. Description: Art work showing different way in which one can access knowledge and enjoy sexual rights.
Sexuality and the internet: Findings from the global survey (2017)
At three different times over the past four years, the EROTICS Project: An Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet, by the APC Women’s Rights Program, sent out a questionnaire to its worldwide network of gender and sexuality activists, advocates, professionals and scholars, to learn about the role of information and communication technologies in their work. The survey was particularly designed to reflect about their experiences and responses to online violence and censorship.
Co-author: Horacio SivoriThe Internet, Sexual Expression and Online Violence in Nepal: Interview with LOOM, Nepal
Photo of workshop conducted by LOOM in Nepal. Photo credit: LOOM
“This research has become a bit of an obsession”: Interview with Point of View
Image source: Digital storytelling workshop organised by Point of View.
Bishakha Datta and Smita Vanniyar talk to GenderIT about their research on Section 67 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Journeying through sexuality, activism and the internet
Image taken from website of National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
“Do you remember the first time you used the internet?” someone asked at the APC Making a Feminist Internet gathering in Malaysia this October.
PodCat Feminist spectrum and infrastructure
In this podcast we’re going to talk about women, technology, infrastructure and the electromagnetic spectrum, from a feminist perspective. First off, let’s understand technology as ways of being, living, loving, suffering, resisting, organising, cooking...all are ancestral forms of technology. We also have infrastructure - the elements that make technologies operate so powerfully.
Interview with Lili_Anaz: A body that knows itself ...
A body that knows itself and knows that together with others it can generate a very strong force to hack any system.
The following interview was done with the help and interpretation by Erika Smith.
Interview with Just Associates SouthEast Asia
Fungai Machirori speaks to a representative of Just Associates in South-east Asia in this interview that took place at the Making a Feminist Internet convening in early October in Malaysia. JASS is a global organisation that is now working on new digital forms of activism and organising. JASS believes that women who are most affected by the political, economic, environmental and health crises reverberating across the world are on the frontlines of change.
[SPECIAL EDITION] Taking the girl's revolution online: Interview with Ghadeer Ahmed
Photograph from Girl's Revolution Facebook Page against the ban on wearing skirts in Saudi Arabia
Ghadeer Ahmed created Girl's Revolution on Twitter and Facebook a year after the revolution on Jan 25 2011 in Egypt. In this interview with Yara Sallam she traces the difficult and rewarding journey of talking about women's rights, body, sexuality, violence and harassment and sharing this with many other women and girls online.
[SPECIAL EDITION] Expert on my own Experience: Conversations with Neo Musangi
Source: Own work by Neo Musangi. Title: Manpower, installation
I begin my interview with trepidation. In my experience in India, trans, gender non-conforming, non binary and intersex people are wary of knowledge projects, and with good reason. There is a history of epistemic violence here – of being surveyed, written about and made into metaphors around fluidity of gender (and even sexuality) with a bare minimum of participation from those who are gender non-conforming, non binary, trans or intersex.
[SPECIAL EDITION] Taking the girl's revolution online: Interview with Ghadeer Ahmed
Photograph from Girl's Revolution Facebook Page against the ban on wearing skirts in Saudi Arabia
Yara Sallam: How did the idea for the “Girls Revolution” Facebook page come about?

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