feminist internet

This article explores a growing and troubling trend: trans and detransitionist activists aligning with extreme right-wing groups to cyberstalk, discredit, and divide the trans rights movement. Drawing on examples from Chile and beyond, Michel Riquelme examines how tactics like misinformation, online harassment, and collaboration with anti-gender forces undermine decades of progress.

This article examines how state-affiliated cybertroops in Indonesia are evolving into digital stalkers targeting women and marginalised groups. Originally deployed to manipulate political discourse during elections, these coordinated online actors now use harassment, doxxing, and surveillance to silence activists, feminists, and LGBTQIA+ voices. Juliana Harsianti shows how this tech-…

This article examines cyberstalking as a prevalent and persistent form of digital male chauvinist violence (DMCV), particularly in the context of intimate partner relationships. It highlights how digital tools are used for ongoing control, surveillance, and harassment after separation. It shares real case studies, critiques the failures of legal and platform responses, and reflects on evolving…

This article explores how online stalking is weaponised against women and marginalised genders in India for expressing dissent or asserting their identities. It traces how digital harassment, driven by majoritarian backlash, misogyny, and transphobia, mirrors real-world structural violence. It examines the emotional, social, and professional toll of being surveilled and attacked online,…

Mardiya Siba Yahaya explores the right to opacity as a refusal of the violent demand to be visible, legible, or measurable within dominant systems. Through a personal encounter and reflections from queer African communities, she examines how surveillance - both social and technological - forces marginalised people to prove their worth, often at the cost of safety and autonomy.

Given the multifaceted structural violence that queer communities face in South Asia, their identities and existence are only referred to in relation to this violence. Arslan Athar challenges this notion and introduces how LGBTQIA+ folks in the region are reclaiming their identities by portraying the joyful parts of their lives on the internet.

Listen to some great stories of long-time feminist tech activists and savvy newbies from the APC Women's Rights Programme and its expanded network, and get inspired by their memories and experiences, all connected by a common thread: making a feminist internet!

Members of the network will undertake a feminist internet research that provides substantial evidence to drive change in policy and law and in the discourse around internet rights. The broader objective is to ensure that the needs of women, and gender diverse and queer people are considered in internet policy discussions and decision-making.

In this editorial, authors have focused on unpacking the impact of internet and digital rights from an intersectional feminist perspective showcasing the everyday realities of women through Feminist Internet Research conducted in Democratic Republic of Congo; Sudan; trans, non-binary and gender diverse communities in Botswana, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda; and the LGBTQIA+ communities in…

Since its advent, the internet has taken various forms and has gone through different phases to become what it is today. The evolution of the internet has not yet stopped, with new technology rapidly advancing. However, women's contribution and the kind of access they have is often overlooked in this conversation. This article explores how women have participated in making the internet and…