Feminist internet

Navigating our constellations: Cosmic and earthly feminist tech futures
Navigating our constellations: Cosmic and earthly feminist tech futures 20 March 2023 shawna finnegan, la_jes, Jennifer Radloff and Erika Smith

APC and Sursiendo will be hosting a workshop at this year's MozFest on 22 March, where they will invite participants to begin the process of weaving a digital quilt for feminist, just and sustainable tech futures for the Earth.

APC Reading List: Preparing for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 67th session
APC Reading List: Preparing for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 67th session 07 March 2023 Hija Kamran

This year's Commission on the Status of Women is the first ever to focus on gender equality and digital technologies. Here is APC's recommended reading list to help us all prepare for the discussions at CSW67.

Bodily autonomy and censorship: Snippets from South Asia
Bodily autonomy and censorship: Snippets from South Asia 03 March 2023 Seerat Khan for GenderIT.org

The overregulation of women's and gender-diverse folks' bodies in South Asian culture has found its way into online spaces and heavily polices how bodily autonomy is expressed and regarded. Seerat Khan discusses barriers to this autonomy and their impact on self-expression.

APC at the Commission on the Status of Women 67th session
APC at the Commission on the Status of Women 67th session 03 March 2023

The 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women is the first in its history to have a specific focus on gender equality and digital technologies. APC will be bringing forward key issues around online gender-based violence, freedom of speech and more.

APC at the OEWG II fourth substantive session
APC at the OEWG II fourth substantive session 01 March 2023 Verónica Ferrari

APC considers the UN Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security 2021-2025 (OEWG II) an important process to influence the setting up of international norms on cybersecurity.

Introductory brief: The Global Digital Compact
Introductory brief: The Global Digital Compact 01 March 2023

This introductory brief produced by APC seeks to provide civil society organisations with an initial understanding of the strategic relevance of engaging in the UN-led Global Digital Compact process by developing inputs based on a long-term vision for what we want the internet to be.

We are not alone. We have each other. Rooting self and collective care at Making a Feminist Internet 2022
We are not alone. We have each other. Rooting self and collective care at Making a Feminist Internet 2022 28 February 2023 Jennifer Radloff

APC works to root self and collective care in its work, balancing agency and accountability and acknowledging the power rooted in systemic oppression and that we come to spaces with diversities and various traumas which impact our ability to participate in collective spaces.

APC statement to the informal consultations with stakeholders and member states on the Global Digital Compact
APC statement to the informal consultations with stakeholders and member states on the Global Digital Compact 05 February 2023 APC

APC believes that the Global Digital Compact could play a key role in ensuring that the lessons learned from years of multistakeholder cooperation feed into future processes of internet policy, internet governance and global digital cooperation.

On holding half the sky: New GenderIT.org edition shares stories of resilience from the Horn of Africa
On holding half the sky: New GenderIT.org edition shares stories of resilience from the Horn of Africa 24 January 2023 Various contributors for GenderIT.org

The editors co-created this edition as a reflection of the ever-dynamic and actively resilient mosaic they know to be embodied in each daughter of the Horn. In the questions they ask, they find the answer always rooted in their untold histories, experiences and everyday realities.

A coy-tale: Queer cyber intimacy and the surveilled subject
A coy-tale: Queer cyber intimacy and the surveilled subject 19 December 2022 Lara Mansour for GenderIT.org

This personal essay by Lara Mansour narrates the experience of being gay in a conservative country like Egypt, and the anxieties of a first-ever digital sexual encounter.

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