alexandra

Based in Montreal, Canada, Alex is Executive Assistant at the Association for Progressive Communi

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It's time to digitally detox... and watch some funny parodies

Posted Fri 28 Nov 2014 - 13:07 | 5,326 views
DJ's choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to…
MaggieMapondera

Maggie Hazvinei Mapondera works in Communications for Just Associates Southern Africa, a global

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Trials of a confused feminist (in an internet governance school)

Posted Mon 24 Nov 2014 - 09:22 | 13,782 views
As I sit at the Internet Governance School in perhaps the lushest hotel I have ever stayed in, I am struck with the somewhat unwelcome (but certainly not unfamiliar) feeling of being way out of my depth. I have always paid lip service to this whole “exposing myself to new experiences, new ideas” thing. After all, that’s how we grow, isn’t it? It’s exciting! Fun! Awesome! It’s how we learn. It’s…
Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

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Gender neutral sex toy, Twitter, and freestyle jamming!

Posted Thu 20 Nov 2014 - 01:16 | 5,390 views
DJ's choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to…
flavia

Flavia Fascendini vive en una ciudad en el interior de Argentina y es directora de comunicaciones

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Social media: Why can't I just leave? Why is it hard to stay?

Posted Wed 19 Nov 2014 - 20:43 | 7,369 views
I am a social media user, for several years now. I think Facebook, in particular, and the way it sets what is possible and what is not possible for its users, is slowly imitating the circle of life but in such a way that it narrows down our options, rather than opening them up. We start feeling more and more trapped after investing so much of our data, history, affections and expectations in our…

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Join today IGNITE: Women Fueling Science and Technology campaign to end the gender gap in technology

Posted Mon 17 Nov 2014 - 18:58 | 4,618 views
Join us and add your voice to Global Fund for Women’s online petition, co-presented with UN Women, calling for governments and the United Nations to take action to end the gender gap in technology to advance women’s rights. Sign the petition today to demand women and girls’ equal access to and control of technology.
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Violence silences: Document. Challenge. Reclaim our right to expression

Posted Mon 17 Nov 2014 - 14:22 | 3,585 views
How do you challenge existing inequalities by speaking up? When you voice your thoughts, do you face threats and abuse? How is violence used to disrupt solidarity and collective action where you are? How do you fight back? This year's Take Back the Tech! campaign invites you to help us reframe the conversation about violence against women as a violation of our fundamental human right to freedom…
Tarryn

Tarryn is a South African BA graduate with majors in Psychology and Sociology.

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Zuckerberg, gender pronouns and LGBTQ

Posted Fri 7 Nov 2014 - 04:45 | 4,934 views
DJ's choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to…
alexandra

Based in Montreal, Canada, Alex is Executive Assistant at the Association for Progressive Communi

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F-Bombs for feminism and brain pickings

Posted Fri 31 Oct 2014 - 10:31 | 6,132 views
DJ's choice is a weekly section by GenderIT.org, exploring the depths of the web to provide you once a week with a top 5 of creative, interesting and informative pieces and resources on gender and ICTs. Delight yourself with this selection of “sparks”: Good readings, interesting links, videos, pictures, cool authors to point to, amazing tools, and much more. Send us interesting material to…
genderit.org

Launched in 2006, GenderIT.org is a groundbreaking resource site that provides feminist reviews a

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How technology informs my activism: A conversation with gender and technology activists in Barcelona

Posted Mon 27 Oct 2014 - 09:27 | 17,409 views
Interviewed during the APC Member Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, gender and technology activists Anne Roth, Hilary Goldstein, Marie Githini, and Sarah Marland, talked about how technology informs their activism and what turns them on about technology.

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APC at IGF 2014: Bishakha Datta on the Feminist Principles of the Internet

Posted Tue 21 Oct 2014 - 08:58 | 5,488 views
Feminist activist and filmmaker Bishakha Datta of Point of View (India) helped draft the groundbreaking Feminist Principles of the Internet. An initiative of APC's Women's Rights Programme, this tool for advancing internet rights was launched at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Istanbul, Turkey in September 2014. APC’s Elvira Truglia spoke to Datta during the IGF about the relevance of the…