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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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Dwelling with feminicide data: Digital methods for feminist research
This paper presents an innovative digital research methodology that imbricates feminist, participatory, and computational epistemologies to research the role of data in social contestation. Focusing on the social media conversation about feminicide, specifically on Spanish-speaking Twitter (now X), the study examined a dataset of 2.86 million posts to find which emotions and actions are involved…
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Feminist Artificial Intelligence: Frameworks, Practices, Refusals
This Data Against Feminicide (DCF) community event, organised with the Feminist Artificial Intelligence Network in Latin America and the Caribbean, explored how artificial intelligence (AI) can shape, enhance, or undermine efforts to fight against gender-related violence and feminicide. The event opened with brief introductions from the co-organisers, followed by a conceptual discussion on the promises…
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New edition of Data and Feminicide: Theory and Practice course
It took a while, but we are finally opening a new cohort of our online course: Data and Feminicide: Theory and Practice. This time it will run in English.This course aims to provide a space to deepen our understanding of data practices and technology in the struggle against feminicide. It begins by setting a solid theoretical…
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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-Inflected Visions of Feminicide (Suárez Val, 2025)
This paper advances the notion of “data-inflected visions” to show how various visual representations may come come to be imagined as data, and how doing so opens up different meanings for the political and affective work of data. The visuality of social issues is produced through competing hegemonic and alternative visions, and conventional visualization is…
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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…