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Feminist Infrastructure: The Creation of What Sustains Us
Our perspectives and conditions of access, use and development of technologies are deeply rooted in the ways patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism are embedded in our daily lives. This article maps pioneering feminist infrastructure experiences that allow us to explore new horizons of political action.
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Cybercrime Policy to Censor Dissent in Nicaragua
Nicaraguas’ Cybercrime Special Law, passed under the argument of being the first national instrument to protect women’s and children’s integrity online, is being enforced to silence dissenting voices. This article illustrates how the Ortega-Murillo regime has instrumentalised this bill to curtail freedom of expression, criminalise human rights defenders and silence feminist activists in the…
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Localising Digital Self-Defence Guides for Sex Workers
Despite passing under the guise of fighting sex trafficking, the US-based bills FOSTA/SESTA criminalised sex workers and left them fewer tools to work and protect themselves. Cypher Sex describes the challenges of writing digital self-defence guides with protection strategies that could be applied to this legal scenario.
Editorial
A Feminist Conversation on Cybersecurity
Like any other technical domain, cybersecurity has always been confined to senior officials and private sector specialists. Feminists, however, have not only claimed their right to participate in decision-making structures in this field but have made central contributions to the notion of security, bringing holistic and intersectional approaches. In this edition of GenderIT, editors focus on…
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Digital Waves of Hate: The Struggle Continues for Pakistan’s Transgender Community
The transgender community in Pakistan has constantly been subjected to persecution and violence hindering their participation in 'normal' life. This violence has increasingly been mirrored into digital world leading to plethora of hashtag campaigns initiated to damage the struggles of the community.
On Holding Half The Sky: Stories of Resilience From The Horn Of Africa
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.
Editorial
On Holding Half the Sky: Stories of Resilience
The editors write about co-creating this edition as a reflection of the ever-dynamic and actively resilient mosaic they know to be embodied in each daughter of the Horn.
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Of The Things War Did To Us
What is belonging? What is its role in our lives - if any? Are we free to belong, freed by belonging or bound by it? In this piece, Etenat pulls the curtains allowing us a little peek into her exploration of these questions through her experience of a war ravaging all she knew -or thought she knew - of land, love and liberation. Her articulation of the sentences exacted upon her (and many…
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Resilience through Internet Research: Reflections on Conducting Research with Front-Line Defenders in the Horn of Africa
Academically, politically, socially, religiously, realistically and holistically, what is resilience? This reflective piece takes us through the behind the scenes and in-betweens of a research on the (in)visibilitiy of muslim women human right defenders in the Horn of Africa. In their reflection of the research, an invitation to reckon with seeing oneself in the “subject” of one’s research,…
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Poem: Sad & Lonely
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. In her poetic contributions to our edition, Ayak blatantly challenges this as she paints and captures thousands of images, voices in and between each word.
