Tag: experiences

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…
Monitoring, recording, and mapping feminicide – experiences from Mexico and Uruguay (Madrigal et al, 2019)

Data and Technology in the Feminist Struggle

| experiences, mapping, publications, strategic datafication

In this article, four researchers and activists – mappers of feminicide in Ciudad Juarez, the State of Mexico, Mexico, and Uruguay – present, in our own voices, our diverse personal and embodied experiences of monitoring, recording, and mapping cases of feminicide. Our objective is to reflect on the practices of creating these imperfect tools of…