KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, NOV 25 2018
FEMINIST INTERNET TU APA? • What is a feminist approach to the internet? • What does it look like, what could it look like, and what would it take to achieve it? • What does it mean to live/exist/engage both offline and online?
“ There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. — Audre Lorde ”
“ From falling in love to demanding accountability from our government, [the internet] is becoming part of the texture of our everyday social, political, economic, and cultural life. It’s not just an inert tool that we wield when we have access to it, but a space where things happen, where identities are constructed, norms reified or disrupted, action and activities undertaken. As such, it cannot help but be a space of intersectionality where many things collide and connect. — jac sm kee (APC) ”
#IMAGINEAFEMINISTINTERNET • Twitter conversation • EROTICS (Exploratory research on sexuality and the internet) 2008 - 2011 • Global meetings in 2014, 2015 & 2017 • 50-70+ activists: queer, techie, rights, feminists, combo • Feminist Principles of the Internet (FPI): an evolving, collaborative document
movement Access building embodiment FPI CLUSTERS economy expression
ACCESS • Access to technology • Access to information • Capacity to create, design and use
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MOVEMENTS • Resistance • Movement building • Governance
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# KITASEMUAPENGHASUT
ECONOMY • Alternative economies • Free/libre and open source
nomoregoogle.com
EXPRESSION • Amplifying feminist discourse • Freedom of expression • Pornography
IS THIS OFFENSIVE? Artist and writer Rupi Kaur posted this image on Instagram in 2015 where it was removed twice for being “offensive”. She wrote about it on her Tumblr and the post was shared 11k times, and only then was the photo reinstated.
EMBODIMENT • Consent • Privacy & data • Memory • Safety & violence • Children/youth
WHO OWNS THIS? Artist Richard Prince took people’s public Instagram photos, changed the captions and context and exhibited them as artworks in May 2015. One of the works sold for $90k. Who owns the work/data (and that profit)?
“ A feminist internet works towards empowering more women and queer persons – in all our diversities – to fully enjoy our rights, engage in pleasure and play, and dismantle patriarchy. This integrates our different realities, contexts and specificities – including age, disabilities, sexualities, gender identities and expressions, socioeconomic locations, political and religious beliefs, ethnic origins, and racial markers. — Feminist Principles of the Internet preamble ”
feministinternet.org / feministinternet.net
takebackthetech.net
erotics.apc.org
#feministinternet #imagineafeministinternet
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