Category: Data and Technology in the Feminist Struggle
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Data Against Feminicide: Confronting Stereotypes and Silences with Feminist Data Work (Fumega, 2026)
This chapter explores how DcF operates as a community of practice that challenges dominant knowledge systems, confronts harmful media narratives, and proposes alternative, care-based approaches to security through feminist data infrastructures. The sections that follow examine how these practices unfold in greater depth: from DcF’s foundational approach to community building and collective care, to its…
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Data as Resistance: Feminist and Trans Interventions in Data and AI
The panel discussion Data as Resistance: Feminist and Trans Interventions in Data and AI brings together three presentations that explore how data, media, and technology can support activist responses to feminicide and gender-based violence through participatory and feminist approaches. It will take place online on Tuesday, 28 April 16 hrs (GMT) and you can register…
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Reimagining Data Work: Participatory Annotation Workshops as Feminist Practice (Gao et al., 2026)
AI systems depend on the invisible and undervalued labor of data workers, who are often treated as interchangeable units rather than collaborators with meaningful expertise. Critical scholars and practitioners have proposed alternative principles for data work, but few empirical studies examine how to enact them in practice. This paper bridges this gap through a case…
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5 years of Data Against Feminicide + Launch of tools in Swahili
To celebrate 5 years since the first community events of the Data Against Feminicide project, in August 2025, we held an online gathering to look back on all we have done together and to launch the Swahili version of our tools, co-designed with the amazing Femicide Count Kenya. Alessandra Jungs de Almeida and Isadora Cruxên presented key learnings…
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Data Activism Against Feminicide (Cruxên & Jungs de Almeida, 2024)
What role does data play in addressing gender-based violence? This report summarizes the results of five years of collective work as part of the Data Against Feminicide project. Data Against Feminicide is a South-North participatory action research and design project that supports the work of activists and civil society organizations that produce data on gender-based…
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Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action (D’Ignazio, 2024)
What isn’t counted doesn’t count. And dominant institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide, the gender-based murder of women and girls, including cisgender and transgender women. In the face of this failure, Counting Feminicide foregrounds the work of data activists across the Americas who are documenting these kinds of murders and challenging the reigning logic…
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Data Against Feminicide: The Process and Impact of Codesigning Digital Research Tools (Suárez Val et al, 2024)
Data Against Feminicide is an action research collaboration that aims to foster an international community of practice around femicide data. In this chapter, we introduce two tools we have co-designed and tested with activists to facilitate their work and ease the burdens on their workflow. Data Against Feminicide Email Alerts is an artificial intelligence-based system that detects…
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Challenging (in)security: Missing Data and Counterdata Production on Feminicides in the Americas (Jungs de Almeida et al, forthcoming)
Jungs de Almeida, A., Cruxên, I., Radhakrishnan, R., & D’Ignazio, C. (forthcoming). Challenging (in)security: Missing Data and Counterdata Production on Feminicides in the Americas. En P. Anctil (Ed.), Feminist Security Studies in the Americas: Pushing the Fronteras. Palgrave Macmillan. Enlace externo
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The revolution shall not be automated: On the political possibilities of activism through data & AI (Cruxên, 2024)
Reflecting on the “AI revolution”, Isadora Cruxên draws on her experience working with activists in the collaborative project Data Against Feminicide to argue that the politics of data and AI is, at heart, a politics of knowledge production. She invites us all to take part in this conversation. Cruxên, I. (2024, mayo 28). The revolution…
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Data Activism about Feminicide in Brazil
(Due to a technical issue this recording is only available in Portuguese) In August 2023, we launched the Portuguese version of the Data Against Feminicide Email Alerts: our platform to support the monitoring of femicides through relevant news on the subject. In this event, we heard from activists from different regions of Brazil about their…