Category: Data and Technology in the Feminist Struggle
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Innovation Ends. Care Continues. Building principles for sustaining feminist data practices & technologies
SAVE THE DATE! | November 24, 2026 November 24, 202610 AM EST | 11 AM ARG/BRA/URU | 3 PM UK Online via Zoom Register here Most conversations about technology focus on what is new: a new tool, a new project, a new grant. But much less attention goes to what happens afterwards. Who keeps a…
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Towards Justice-Oriented AI: Reflections on a Research-Community Partnership to Co-Develop Swahili AI Tools (Légitime et al., 2026)
AI development is notoriously centralized, concentrating power in the hands of a few. Justice-oriented frameworks have emerged to challenge this paradigm, but documented examples of AI projects that aim to distribute power and ownership across the full development lifecycle remain rare. In this paper, co-authors from a Kenyan activist organization that monitors femicide in the…
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Data activism and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the struggle against feminicide in Brazil (Jungs de Almeida et al., 2026)
In this text, we present data activism practices against feminicide in Brazil, highlighting the collaborative project Data Against Feminicide and the work of feminist organizations that produce, monitor, and use data to combat lethal gender-related violence. In response to state neglect and the lack of reliable official data, these initiatives work to make feminicide visible…
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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…