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Some notes on ESCRIBANA and its creative way to harness the power-politics of communications

Flavia Fascendini and Maria Suárez Toro
Flavia Fascendini and Maria Suárez Toro on 7 May, 2012 - 20:49
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Flavia Fascendini is GenderIT.org Spanish and Portuguese editor and is based in Argentina. Maria Suárez Toro has had a long activist career in women’s human rights, social justice, and communication. She is originally from Puerto Rico but has resided in Costa Rica since the 1970s. Maria co-founded and co-directed the Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) for several years and she is a member of ESCRIBANA and of Petateras.

Flavia from GenderIT.org based her feminist talk on Maria Suárez Toro’s notes for the session “Harnessing the Power-Politics of Communications: A New Edge for Feminist Transformative Activism” that took place during the 12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights in Development. The session was organized by APC WNSP and took place on 12 April 2012 in Istanbul. María Suárez Toro, from the initiative ESCRIBANA, described the initiative’s work developing feminist autonomous capacity to communicate feminist perspectives and women’s voices under the motto: “In the midst of destruction, open way for creativity”.

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Last Rescue in Siam: A comedy about anti-trafficking raids in Thailand

Melissa Ditmore
Melissa Ditmore on 20 April, 2012 - 14:58
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Empower Foundation of Thailand has creatively used art and media to promote the rights of sex workers for over 20 years. Empower has collaborated with artists to bring their messages to people in Thailand, in cartoons, in nearly life-size papier mache dolls that are more well traveled than the sex workers they represent, and in their own books. But these have been primarily for audiences in Thailand, including brothel workers, health care workers, policyi makers and the men who love the ladies. Electronic media has enabled their work to reach further.

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Silence is not the solution - women bloggers stand up to trolls

Grady Johnson
Grady Johnson on 18 November, 2011 - 14:56
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The net is not neutral. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the experience of women blogigers. Women blogigers face an unprecedented level of harassment and abuse online - both in terms of the volume and vitriol of attacks. But now women writers everywhere are standing up and speaking out against cyberharassment.

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Map it. End it. Take Back the Tech!

Take Back The Tech!
Take Back The Tech! on 16 November, 2011 - 13:57
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This year we call on campaigners to collectively gather evidence for transformation, strengthen our capacity for safer experiences online and amplify our rights in addressing technology-related violence against womeni. Take control of technology to end violence against women.

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What is the gender of the VI IGF? Help us find out!

GenderIT.org
GenderIT.org on 27 September, 2011 - 15:41
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The Gender iReport Card put forward by the Association for Progressive Communicationsi is a simple but strategic way to get a more accurate sense of women's participation at the IGF. Downloadi it! You can help by printing it out and bringing it to your workshops, or you can share it online with other IGF participants.

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Brazil: An ethnographic approach – mapping sexuality on Orkut

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 29 July, 2011 - 10:23
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Flavia is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.

Flavia Fascendini explores two communities on the Orkut social networkingi site on sexuality: one is a forum for anti-lesbian prejudice, and the second is a community aimed at legitimising romantic relationships between adults and adolescents. Both groups were studied as the part of the Brazilian EROTICSi research project that focused on mapping the dynamic and complex policyi shifts on interneti regulationi debates in Brazil.

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USA: EROTICS responses to the Denver library - a fictional exchange on real foundations

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 27 July, 2011 - 15:04
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Flavia Fascendini is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.

Tapping the groundbreaking findings of the US EROTICSi report that investigated the mandated interneti filtering in publicly-funded libraries, Flavia Fascendini leads a fictional dialogue with the Denver Public Library FAQ on content regulationi.

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GenderIT.org's team @ Internet Governance Forum 2010, Vilnius

GenderIT.org
GenderIT.org on 9 September, 2010 - 03:46
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What is the role of the interneti in defending and realising women's rightsi and sexual rightsi? What are our positions as women's rightsi and sexual rights advocates on how the internet should be governed? From 14-17 September, the GenderIT.orgi team had been assisting at the Fifth Internet Governance Forum iin Vilnius, Lithuania. The GenderIT Feminist Talk contributors and tweeters at the fifth IGF are Jac sm Kee (Malaysia), Jan Moolman (South Africa), Katerina Fialova (Czech Republic) and Analía Lavin (Uruguay) - from GenderIT.orgi and APC communications teams - and Maya Ganesh (India), Francoise Mukuku (DRC, Si Jeunesse Savait), Marina Maria (Brazil, Sexuality Policyi Watch), “Nyx” (South Africa), "T. Q." (Lebanon) and Nighat Dad (Bytes For All, Pakistan) - from APC WNSP's partners on the EroTICSi Research Project and MDG3i:Take back the tech!i project. Join the debate!

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Video: Talking about section J - Games for social change

Analia Lavin
Analia Lavin on 15 March, 2010 - 18:21
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Heidi Boisvert, from Breakthrough, talks about their experience with videogames and how she thinks the feminist movement can be involved.
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Invitación al debate: contenido dañino en internet

GenderIT.org
GenderIT.org on 31 October, 2007 - 00:00
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¿La pornografía e interneti van de la mano? Invitamos a una maratón de blogs sobre contenido dañino el 1 de noviembre de 2007.
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