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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…
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MISSING DATA (Jungs de Almeida et al, 2024)
This article explores the concept of “missing data” from a political and social perspective, rather than merely a technical one. While traditional definitions of missing data typically refer to information that is literally missing or incomplete, the approach taken here, aligned with artist and educator Mimi Ọnụọha, considers missing data as that which does not…
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Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide (D’Ignazio et al, 2024)
Feminicide is the murder of cisgender and transgender women and girls for gender-related reasons. It reflects systems of patriarchal and racialized oppression and reveals how territories and socioeconomic landscapes shape everyday gender-based violence. In recent decades, many community data production initiatives have emerged with the goal of monitoring this extreme yet often invisible phenomenon. We…
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Missing data and counterdata (Cruxên et al, 2024)
Cruxên, I., Jungs de Almeida, A., Klein, L. F., & D’Ignazio, C. (2024). Dados Ausentes e Contradados. Em S. Mariano (Ed.), Informe Feminicídios no Brasil 2023: Monitor de Feminicídios no Brasil. Márcio Ferreira de Souza. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/157846?show=full O Monitor de Feminicídios no Brasil (MFB) é uma iniciativa do Laboratório de Estudos de Feminicídios no Brasil, formado…
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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 artivism and feminicide (Suárez Val et al, 2023)
Suárez Val, H., D’Ignazio, C., Acosta Romero, J., Teng, M. Q., & Fumega, S. (2023). Data artivism and feminicide. Big Data & Society, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231215356 Data has become a key format for activists to visibilizar (make visible/call attention to) and denounce social issues. Drawing on the concept of “artivism,” we name as data artivism those works…
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Feminicide data, emotional labor and self-care (Suárez Val et al, 2022)
Producing feminicide data has historically been an important feminist tactic to make gender-related violence visible and to draw attention to the lack of data from official sources. María Puig de la Bellacasa says, in relation to the production of knowledge, that “care” implies simultaneously the work of daily maintenance, an ethico-political commitment and the affective…