The online course “Data and Feminicide: Theory and Practice” is designed for people who work or want to work on the monitoring, recording, and circulation of feminicide data. This course aims to expand their theoretical and practical knowledge on the topic from an intersectional feminist perspective.
The course first ran in Spanish in 2022, with a cohort of over 100 participants.
A new edition of the course will run in English in 2025. Pre-register your interest here.
The objectives of this training are:
- To understand how to conceptualize feminicide data and feminicide data production practices from a feminist and intersectional perspective.
- To acquire skills to evaluate and produce feminicide data, including understanding the different types of sources and issues related to standardization and visualization.
The course is organized into two four-week parts with a break in between. The first module provides an introductory overview of the different theoretical and historical perspectives that allow us to situate and understand the practices of feminicide data production. The second module focuses on the practical aspects of working with feminicide data, focusing on how to adopt an intersectional feminist lens to collect, record, and visualize data on feminicide. In this second part, participants have the opportunity to work with commonly used tools (such as Excel spreadsheets) and with the Data Against Feminicide tools, co-designed by technologists and feminist activists who have been working for years collecting feminicide data in South and North America.
Who is it for?
The course is aimed at activists, technologists, public officials, journalists, civil society, and academia. No technical experience with data is required; just a feminist interest and solidarity. The course is a discrimination-free space.
Coordination:
In 2022, the course was led by Silvana Fumega, Catherine D’Ignazio, and Helena Suárez Val, and had key support from Hassel Fallas (ILDA).
Modules
Module 1 – Situating the feminicide data
In Module 1, we will address various theoretical and historical perspectives that will allow us to situate and understand the practices of data production on feminicide. The module consists of three thematic units and a final unit of practical work.
In Unit 1, we will address data analysis as an agent of change, analyzing data production for activism from a feminist, intersectional, and decolonizing perspective.
In Unit 2, we will address the concept of “feminicide” and the challenges its multiple variants, meanings, and interpretations pose for data production, in activist, media, and state spheres.
In Unit 3, we will explore the production of feminicide data over time, examining the different forms it has taken, from pencil and paper to structured data and search algorithms, and from performance to databases.
In Unit 4, we propose individual or team work in which we will trace the genealogy of feminicide data (or related concepts) for each participant’s or team’s location of interest—city, region, or country. By the end of the module, participants will have acquired theoretical tools to better situate and understand the production of feminicide data from an intersectional feminist perspective.
Module 2: Feminicide Data in Action
Module 2 focuses on the practical side of working with feminicide data, focusing on how to adopt an intersectional feminist lens to collect, record, and visualize feminicide data.
The module consists of three thematic units and a final work unit. Each week, we will work with different data monitoring, recording, and visualization tools, including Alerts and the Data Highlighter Against Feminicide.
In Unit 1, we will explore feminicide data collection. We will learn about data sources and limitations, as well as civil society best practices for using these data sources.
In Unit 2, we will address the recording of feminicide data, analyzing how cases are recorded and categorized from an intersectional perspective, including regional and global efforts to standardize feminicide data fields.
In Unit 3, activists and civil society groups will share their experiences analyzing, visualizing, and sharing feminicide data more broadly with the public.
Finally, in Unit 4 we will complete a final project consisting of a feminicide monitoring plan in your region.