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Thoughts on a feminist Internet: an interview with German magazine FrauenRat

A few weeks ago journalist Christine Müller invited me to share my thoughts on feminism and the Internet for the German feminist magazine FrauenRat, and the issue featuring our conversation is out now!

You can find our exchange in German in the picture above, and in a liberal English translation below. The issue also features interviews with great women whose work I admire, such as Laurie Penny, Billene Seyoum Woldeyes, Anne Wizorek and more, and if you’d like to get a copy you can order it here.

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News! Joining Aspiration as Human Rights Technology Lead

I’m glad and proud to announce that I have joined Aspiration as Human Rights Technology Lead.

Aspiration connects nonprofit organisations, foundations and activists with software solutions and technology skills that help them better carry out their missions.

My work will focus on building technology capacity strategies in support of global nonprofit human rights organisations, capturing the scope and scale of the role technology plays in human rights efforts in different contexts, and exploring ways to create an inclusive, shared language when discussing technology in human rights efforts.

Stay tuned to read and hear more about it!

Allied Media Conference 2015: what, where and let’s connect!

The Allied Media Conference is about to start!

I’ll be involved in co-wrangling a variety of spaces:

Community Technology Network Gathering (Thursday, June 18, 10:00-17:00) #CommTech
Online Identity Health Check-up for Your Organization (Friday, June 19, 9:00-10:30)
Real Rad Care: A Podcast on Intersectional Self-Care (Friday, June 19, 12:45-13:45) #RRCare
Build A Digital Security Culture in Your Work (Sunday, June 21, 13:00-14:30)

Join us in person, get in touch via hashtag – #AMC2015 or the dedicated ones above – and feel welcome to ping me @beatricemartini to talk all things technology, community, justice and rights!

Real Rad Care – co-creating a podcast on intersectional self-care at #AMC2015

The Allied Media Conference is about to start (June 18-21, get ready)!
It’s my first one, I’m very excited about it, and I’m also honoured to join as both participant and session facilitator.

One of the sessions I’ll host (a sneak peek of the other one can be found here) is called Real Rad Care: a podcast on intersectional self-care. The name already says a lot!

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Digital civil disobedience: tactics, tools and future threads

Protests, uprising and unrest are key elements of freedom of expression, contributing to the shape of society and public debate through history.
Over the centuries, individuals and groups have adopted countless tactics to reclaim rights and fight for justice – changing over time, transforming strategically according to different historical and political contexts.

What’s the current state of the art? Which are the tools adopted by protesters to raise awareness, unrest and mobilise?
Technology has entered the the world of activism, and we can recognise forms of protests which combine offline and online elements, as well as expressions of dissent which exclusively operate in the digital space.
This article aims to provide an overview of how digital civil disobedience looks like today, observe which tactics are in use and consider a possible path to develop the future tools which will help global citizens reclaim their rights.

Civil disobedience tends to be taken on by the few. But it creates an environment where broader grass roots social movements can thrive.

— Gabriella Coleman (@BiellaColeman) May 24, 2015

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Newsletter #13: Intersections Matter

Newsletter #13: sent!
(and archived if you missed it)

Work-wise: posting an article about how the concept of intersectionality can be a tool to build social change; publishing a piece on Bitch (!) about menstrual hygiene, human rights and all sorts of (written, illustrated, recorded) resources about it; joining a global feminist day of action on digital rights and following threads on art journalism in the digital age via hashtag.

Links-wise: women protesting, death in the browser, predictive policing, trigger warnings, being a Black trans woman, being a butch woman, being a woman wearing the hijab, pixels, Eurovision, motorcycles.

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Menstruation matters

Today is May 28 – happy Menstrual Hygiene Day!

For the occasion, I wrote an article about menstrual hygiene rights and you can read it here.

I am very excited to see a piece I wrote published by Bitch Media, one of my favourite media outlets (both in print and online!) and I’m particularly grateful to Sarah Mirk, Bitch’s online editor, for her invitation to write for it and for the opportunity to focus on this topic.

Menstrual hygiene is a critical human right and menstrual education is essential not only for those who menstruate, but for all human beings. So, everyone is invited to read and celebrate – today and all year long!

An intersectional take on technology, rights and justice

There’s a word – which is an entire multi-faceted concept in itself – which comes to my mind very often, whether I’m reading the news, working, talking with loved ones or following someone’s train of thoughts online.

Intersectionality.

The concept it expresses has always been at the core of my perspective of the world and of my work, exploring how technology can most effectively serve justice and rights.

So I decided to write about it, as it might turn out to be useful for others as well – next time you’re scraping data to investigate the patterns behind an issue, supporting a group in building their advocacy strategy, or making up your own mind before going to the polls.

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