Co-creating feminist technology to confront gender-based violence and feminicide
This seminar explores the co-design of feminist, participatory technologies to confront gender-based violence and advance justice and solidarity.
How can technology support social justice struggles against gender-based violence and feminicide? This talk explores this question through the work of “Data Against Feminicide”, a collaborative research project that works with civil society organisations and grassroots activists across the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa who produce data against feminicide – the gender-related killing of cisgender and transgender women and girls. These groups produce their own data to make visible this systemic form of violence, to hold institutions accountable, to support collective action, and to remember lives lost.
Since 2019, our interdisciplinary team has partnered with activists to co-design technological tools that support their data strategies, including the collaborative development of machine learning models that facilitate feminicide detection from news media across diverse contexts. This talk will discuss and reflect on this work, considering how building feminist and participatory technologies can open space for rethinking the contemporary politics of data and AI production — moving away from extractive approaches and towards practices that foreground context, justice, and solidarity.
For externals who wish to attend in person, please report to the LSHTM reception in Keppel street by 12:30.
Speaker
Dr Isadora Cruxên, Senior Lecturer in Business Politics and Development, Queen Mary University of London
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