2-5 December, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand
Co-hosted by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Numun Fund, and Whose Knowledge?
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The Feminist Tech Gardens are interconnected ecosystems to collectively nurture and reclaim the digital and technological space with solidarity, hope and resistance. The gardens are spaces designed for playfulness, experimentation and deep connection, that will bring together feminist tech communities from across the world.
You are welcome to join any of the sharing circles at the gardens. The sharing circles are inspired on “juntanzas”, community meeting spaces to share knowledge, experiences, stories and love. Through the gardens you will navigate different feminist tech landscapes hearing from peoples and collectives MAKING feminist tech a living reality IN their territories. The gardens are a small expression of an inspiring ecosystem that is growing throughout the world. Come and join our circles they are fertile SOIL for cross-pollination.
🚩DIGITAL SAFETY SUPPORT
Feminist techies in digital safety are available to offer onsite support in the Fishbowl garden afternoons for people to drop in with any questions or concerns, including checking for malware.
Monday Dec 2. 16:00-17:00 Tuesday Dec 3. 16:00-18:00 Wednesday Dec 4 16:00-18:00 Thursday Dec 5 11:30-13:00
💖 PSYCHOLOGICAL & DIGITAL FIRST AID
VITA-ACTIVA.ORG ****is offering remote support through mobile phone at any time during the conference. Please come to the Fishbowl garden for a quiet connection point with them.
Vita Activa is a helpline for women and LGBTIQ+ people, journalists, activists and human rights defenders who face online gender-based violence, stress, anxiety, chronic fatigue, trauma and pain.
Services are in Spanish and English are free, confidential and anonymous. You can reach out at [email protected] (Spanish) and [email protected] (English) | @VitaActivaOrg | +52155-8171-1117 (WhatsApp, Signal)
🗞️MEDIA CLINICS
Struggling with a press release? Trying to figure out how to pitch your story to a journalist? Need a strategy for your organisation to engage the media?
Sign up for a free 30-minute, one-on-one media clinic at the Fishbowl garden with The Gender Beat, a collective of journalists working to raise the profile of gender journalism across the world.
Sign up through Calendly QRcode
Sign up through Calendly QRcode
Technology is a feminist issue, it is implicitly and explicitly embedded in gender-based violence, state surveillance, war and genocide, and many more issues affecting womxn, LGBTQIAP+ persons, and communities in/from the Global Majority, reproducing historical and ongoing structures of power and privilege.
The massive expansion of digital infrastructures continues to perpetuate colonial legacies and exploitation of Black, Indigenous and marginalised communities and resources. New forms of technology, like generative AI, are subsidized through underpaid labor from/in the Global Majority and exacerbate harm through gender-based violence. While large corporations and governments in the Global North are primary beneficiaries of digital developments, the communities most affected by such developments are also the most excluded in the decision-making, shaping, and visioning of technology.
As feminist activists, mobilisers, and human rights defenders, it is crucial to resist these regimes and technology of apartheid that rely over the gross violations of human rights and dignity. It is crucial not only to hold them accountable, but even more so to develop alternatives to mainstream technology platforms—a feminist tech that is inherently rights-based, anti-oppressive, and liberatory in its design.
Feminist perspectives propose alternatives that question power relations and economies and create space for transformative changes in person and on the ground. If we want technology that is feminist by design, we need spaces to contain and ground our dreams. Playfulness, experimentation and deep human connection are the fertile soil to nurture and grow technology that is liberatory and centred on autonomy and freedom, rather than just another piece of the master’s tools.