Rohini Lakshané
Rohini Lakshané is an interdisciplinary researcher, technologist and Wikimedian. https://about.me/rohini
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Challenging Gendered Disinformation from India’s Manosphere Requires Systemic Change
India’s growing manosphere is fuelling a dangerous wave of gendered disinformation targeting women, feminists, and gender justice advocates. This article dissects how such disinformation thrives on emotional manipulation, political amplification, and structural inequities. Countering it requires more than fact-checking, and must include long-term societal and structural change.
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AI-facilitated GBV Takes Various Forms: Takeaways from Global Events
This article contains key takeaways and summaries of the discussions and talks about AI-facilitated gender-based violence (GBV) that happened during the sessions at the Open Tech Camp and Rightscon in February 2025. Reported by Rohini Lakshane.
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AI is exacerbating image-based abuse
With an increasing commercialisation of AI-based apps and tools, the existing inequalities and tech facilitated violence have found another avenue to perpetuate in the digital spaces. In this article, Rohini Lakshane argues the need for robust solutions focused on protection and guarantee of rights of those affected by this violence.
In depth
[Part 1] Image-Based Abuse: A Practical Technical Guide to Control The Spread of Content
This guide offers practical suggestions for victim-survivors of image-based abuse, especially those living in the global majority world, to remove the violative content while safeguarding their privacy and identity online. It may also be useful for those who support or accompany victim-survivors. This guide contains two parts.
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Archiving feminist research as a method of preserving integrity and openness
Feminist research is often plagiarised, and used unethically and unattributed, leading to the loss of researcher's labour and the ethical considerations they employ while putting the research together. Rohini Lakshane talks about how she archives her research to ensure wide availability as well as keeping record of the work for when and if it is unethically reproduced.
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Lack Of A Data Protection Law Puts Indian Abortion Seekers At Risk
India recently withdrew its data protection bill, putting the data of over a billion people at risk. The already vulnerable individuals became more susceptible to data misuse, especially those already under threat of being targeted for personal choices or identities. This article explores how lack of data protection puts abortion seekers at risk in a society that rejects abortions.
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El conocimiento es poder: consejos para una editatona exitosa
Nos entusiasma organizar editatonas porque Wikipedia es, sin dudas, un punto de referencia del conocimiento. Es fundamental que al organizarlas se tengan en cuenta pautas con el fin de cerrar brechas en la producción de información y de conocimientos y también resguardar la seguridad digital de los/las participantes.
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Five tips for a successful edit-a-thon on gender
Do you want to organise an edit-a-thon around gender, women in STEM, movements and feminist histories of organising or anything else? Here are a list of (5 and more) things to watch out for - including the safety of your participants and how to navigate the tricky but sometimes essential rules of editing content on Wikipedia.
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Women's safety? There is an app for that
