This year we celebrate five years since we started the Data Against Feminicide project.
To look back on all we have done together, join us to reflect on the learnings and insights from the project and to launch the Swahili version of our tools, co-designed with the amazing Femicide Count Kenya.
August 14, 2025
11AM EDT / 12PM ARG / 3PM BST / 6PM EAT
Data Against Feminicide was hatched in a Skype call in 2019 (before Covid-19 catapulted Zoom!) between Catherine D’Ignazio, Silvana Fumega and Helena Suárez Val. When we began thinking up the project, we could never imagine just how far it would grow and how many people would become close collaborators, including Isadora Cruxên who joined the leadership team in 2023.
Five years on from the launch in 2020, we have hosted conversations, trainings, and workshops attended by over 1,500 people from across the world… we have interviewed activists and groups who make feminicide data in all continents (and even had Helena go to Kazakhstan!)… led by Catherine’s Data + Feminism Lab, we have worked with activists in the co-design of digital tools to support their work… we have written many publications… and we continue to learn and take inspiration from the feminicide data community of practice, i.e. you!
Our latest report, authored by Isadora and Alessandra Jungs de Almeida, Data Activism Against Feminicide distills the project’s main results and insights from the last few years.
This year, Data Against Feminicide was awarded an Honorary Mention at the 2025 S+T+ARTS Prize, which recognises innovative projects at the nexus of science, technology and the arts. It’s a testament to the commitment and care for the issue held by everybody who has been involved in the project, from participants to students to researchers to translators. Thank you ❤.
But, of course, we’re not done…!
We are currently collaborating with Harini Suresh and Yujia Gao from the DISCO Lab to explore the development of feminist artificial intelligence tools to address media coverage of feminicide. Get in touch if you want to learn more about this project.
Together with Rahul Bhargava, Media Cloud and Nikko Stevens, we are building on our technology and learnings from activist data practices to create the Counterdata Network, a series of projects that monitor human rights violations from news coverage.