Tag: emotions

Feminicide data, emotional labor and self-care (Suárez Val et al, 2022)

Data and Technology in the Feminist Struggle, Strategic Datafication

| emotions, featured, publications, strategic datafication

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…
Affect Amplifiers: Feminist Activists and Digital Cartographies of Feminicide (Suárez Val, 2021)

Data and Technology in the Feminist Struggle

| emotions, experiences, mapping, publications

Feminicide, the gender-related violent deaths of women, is the tip of the iceberg in a continuum of violence that is “terrorizing women” in the Americas (Fregoso and Bejarano 2010)1 . As well as street protests, performances, hashtag campaigns and many other online and offline actions, feminist activists across Latin America have been denouncing feminicide by…