In the midst of a civil conflict, #Myanmar is facing the after-effects of a powerful earthquake 🇲🇲 Grassroots response is crucial as communities were already vulnerable and resources stretched thin. Here's how you can help: www.apc.org/en/news/myan... RT and share widely! @apc.org #MyanmarRelief

So, yes, we are all connected — in this reality, how can you participate in real, tangible ways towards the struggle for Palestinian self-determination? How can you resist forces that seem too big and vast to take on? (2/2) #TakeBackTheTech interviews ➡️ takebackthetech.net/blog/big-tec...

AI + tech have been used against Palestinians for a long time now, with Palestine being the “testing ground” for warfare technologies that are then eventually exported around the 🌍 @timnitgebru.bsky.social & others lay bare Palestinian digital realities ⬇️ 1/2 www.dair-institute.org/blog/NoTechF...

AI + tech have been used against Palestinians for a long time now, with Palestine being the “testing ground” for warfare technologies that are then eventually exported around the 🌍 @timnitgebru.bsky.social & others lay bare Palestinian digital realities ⬇️ 1/2 www.dair-institute.org/blog/NoTechF...

#BlueSky, help us reach the right people! 🚨 We are seeking proposals & pitches for stories, analysis + collective experiences that address digital stalking from an intersectional feminist lens 🏳️‍🌈 🚨 Send pitch (300 words) to [email protected] 📧 🚨 PAID Details: genderit.org/resources/ca...

Targeted and mass surveillance of women and queer human rights defenders uses #GenderedDisinformation when it manifests. #CSW69 Their private lives may be used to discredit their work or shame them — but this specific targeting needs to be acknowledged and redressed. (4/4)

Yet anti-surveillance or "protection" cannot become an excuse for governments to create laws that unfairly target freedom of expression. Anti-cybercrime measures must be grounded in the principles of legality, necessity & proportionality. (3/4) 🔗 www.apc.org/en/pubs/when... 🔗

#WHRDs are at a higher risk of having their private lives used to discredit them. #CSW69 Private actors representing corporate and vested interests also deploy surveillance tech against WHRDs to discredit women and chill free expression. #InternationalWomensDay (2/4) #IWD #IWD2025

Emerging technologies harm #WomenHumanRightsDefenders in newer ways. State-backed military-grade surveillance technology targets #WHRDs to impact their personal & professional lives. #InternationalWomensDay #CSW69 @apc.org's open letter to states: www.apc.org/en/pubs/open... (1/4) #IWD #IWD2025

Emerging technologies harm #WomenHumanRightsDefenders in newer ways. State-backed military-grade surveillance technology targets #WHRDs to impact their personal & professional lives. #InternationalWomensDay #CSW69 @apc.org's open letter to states: www.apc.org/en/pubs/open... (1/4) #IWD #IWD2025

#ArtificialIntelligence is evolving to become a part of our daily lives — it is now more enmeshed than it ever was. It creates photographs, videos and text... and women's images are made to look "sexy", while prejudices remain constant in many answers. (1/4) Thread ⬇️ #CSW69 #IWD #IWD2025

Calling all #WomenHumanRightsDefenders! As #tech continues to evolve, women (esp. #WHRDs) stay at an increased risk of technology-facilitated GBV, like: 🧲 doxxing 🧲 non-consensual sharing of intimate images 🧲 sexualised deep fakes 🧲 online stalking Thread ⬇️ (1/4) #CSW69 #IWD #IWD2025

Guess what: Many women and queer folks don't have real access to the internet, even when they are connected to it. #FeministPrinciplesOfTheInternet If your connection is monitored, threatened, and/or secret, it's not real access. So, then — what is? Thread ⬇️ (1/4) #CSW69 #FPI #IWD2025 #IWD

Feminised labor, anti-sex work stigma, the informal economy & the platform-mediated gig-economy makes webcamming a ready site for multiple forms of labor exploitation. @hrw.org #InternationalDayToEndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers #TakeBackTheTech 3/3 www.hrw.org/report/2024/...

“They know when you are using the bathroom." There is constant surveillance by the studio's owners. Maria told @hrw.org that in addition to her streaming camera, there are also surveillance cameras in the restrooms, locker room where models change clothes, and in the staircase. 2/3

Maria appears on at least 11 different adult webcam platforms but has never seen/personally signed the ToS for any of them. An account cannot be created w/o signing, so she believes the studio owners must have accepted the terms on her behalf when they created her accounts. 1/3

As we winded down 2024, we rested and grieved the multiple wars ongoing across the world. We had DJ Outvertigo on the #TakeBackTheTech mixtapes — a Palestinian refugee researcher born + raised in Lebanon — curate resources on Palestinian resistance. Intersections of #AI & warfare: bit.ly/tbttboard

As we winded down 2024, we rested and grieved the multiple wars ongoing across the world. We had DJ Outvertigo on the #TakeBackTheTech mixtapes — a Palestinian refugee researcher born + raised in Lebanon — curate resources on Palestinian resistance. Intersections of #AI & warfare: bit.ly/tbttboard

Maria appears on at least 11 different adult webcam platforms but has never seen/personally signed the ToS for any of them. An account cannot be created w/o signing, so she believes the studio owners must have accepted the terms on her behalf when they created her accounts. 1/3

Hello #BlueSky! Follow for #feminist #techie content based in the #GlobalSouth: #Africa, #Asia and #LatinAmerica What you can expect to get: Anti-stalking tips; discussions at the intersection of #war, #AI, #surveillance and #tech; strategising against #OnlineGBV + more!! #TakeBackTheTech with us

#WorldHumanRightsDay2024 says: "Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now." This rang true in the #FeministTechGardens — with feminists holding collective grief, hope, imagination, and power to transform our realities towards just and liberatory tech futures for collective liberation.

The #FeministTechGardens at #AWIDForum2024 hosted exhibitions and sharing circles as gardening spaces of knowledge, tech, and social justice movements and communities. Feminists collectively shared embodied knowledges, stories, practices & strategies of building liberatory tech. (4.5)

TECH IS A FEMINIST ISSUE! #WorldHumanRightsDay The #FeministTechGardens at #AWIDForum2024 said: "As feminists of the Global Majority world, we know that repeated ecocides, genocides, and epistemicides cannot be detached from colonial past, technology, and imperial power." (3/5)

The #FeministTechGardens invited dreamers, weavers, community builders, healers, storytellers, memory workers, war machinery dismantlers, front line responders, community, community mobilisers & organisers to reimagine + reclaim digital spaces & technological imaginaries together. (2/5)

On #WorldHumanRightsDay, we're recalling the #FeministTechGardens at #AWIDForum2024. 🧵 #FeministTech gardeners from @apc.bsky.social, #NumunFund & #WhoseKnowledge collaboratively held this space — hoping that the gardens become a space to connect tech feminists from across the world. (1/5)

On #WorldHumanRightsDay, we're recalling the #FeministTechGardens at #AWIDForum2024. 🧵 #FeministTech gardeners from @apc.bsky.social, #NumunFund & #WhoseKnowledge collaboratively held this space — hoping that the gardens become a space to connect tech feminists from across the world. (1/5)