Attending the African Women in Dialogue (AfWID) conference this year was a truly enriching experience. We were fortunate to engage with women delegates from 55 African countries.
Tigist Shewarega Hussen
Tigist Shewarega Hussen
Tigist Shewarega Hussen (PhD) works in the Women’s Rights Program (WRP) at the Association for Progressive Communication (APC). She is the research lead and coordinator for the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) project. Tigist is also a CCNY Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HUMA, Department of Humanities, at the University of Cape Town. Her ongoing research explores a digital Pan-African network of feminist digital activism for social justice across the continent. Tigist’s scholarly and advocacy work recently shifted to understanding the ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) from a decolonial feminist and pan-African perspective.
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Reading ourselves: Feminist data analysis and relational praxis
In this editorial, the authors reflect on how feminist research is not only about “expertise”; it is a practice of relationality, care and critically engaged meaning-making in connection with the people and movements at the heart of our research.
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Caring to know and make a difference
Through the third cycle of Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) and this edition, the FIRN team has attempted to offer a different perspective on who gets recognition as a knowledge producer and how research can be a political act that disrupts knowledge formation, serving as an entry point for networking, connecting and movement building.
Feminist talk
Third launch of FIRN project: Global South feminist perspective into technology-facilitated gender-based violence
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.
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Global attention to Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV): Feminist Perspectives
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…
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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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"Todo lo que hay que andar para llegar hasta ahí”: Cómo centrar formas feministas de conocimiento
Una constante en la historia del feminismo es la resistencia contra marcos metodológicos y resultados de investigación que excluyen sistemáticamente la experiencia de los individuos y las comunidades menos privilegiadas, basándose en la intersección de identidades – raza, género, casta, sexualidad y etnicidad.
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"All that you walk on to get there": How to centre feminist ways of knowing
Feminist ways of knowing have paid close attention to the power dynamics of knowledge-making and extraction. In this editorial, we look at how these questions are of importance especially in relation to research that seeks to contribute to liberation and transformation of technology to be used by women and people of diverse sexualities and genders.
Feminist talk
What are we looking for? : Research on Community Networks
Community networks offer an alternative to how connectivity, especially in remote areas, is largely determined by the market or state infrastructure. In this article Tigist Hussen explores the place of gender and feminist analysis in community networks, and specifically in the Zenzeleni network in Mankosi, South Africa. What she finds is surprising, humbling and insightful for researchers and…
