Beauty and the Platform Economy
In the platform economy, women in the beauty service industry are falling through the cracks exposed by the pandemic. Khawla…
FEMINISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE
The Feminist Observatory of the Internet (FOI) examines the relationship between feminist struggles and the digitally-mediated world. It investigates the restructuring of gender power in the digital paradigm, unpacking old concepts for their new meanings, focusing on: the public sphere, citizenship, sexuality, human rights and more.
Illustration By : Alia Sinha
Humanizing the Digital Justice Debate
Analyzing the role of gender in addressing the inequalities created and reinforced by digital transformation. Gita Sen This article emphasizes…
A Chinese Feminist’s Reflections on the Pandemic
Gender, surveillance, and rights in China during Covid-19 Cai Yiping In this article, Chinese feminist Cai Yiping recounts her experiences…
Back to Where We’ve Always Been: Sex/Gender Segregation Amid Covid-19
Restricting movements of citizens on the basis of sex/gender reactivates the cultural norms on which the sexual division of labor…
Avoiding the Trap of the Singular Data Story
Why we need a justice-oriented approach to data that centres an analysis of power relations. Zara Rahman This article examines…
Imagining a Feminist Future of Work in the Global South
With Aliya Hashmi Khan Automation, artificial intelligence, and platformization of the global economy is changing the very nature of work….
Researching our Digitally Mediated World: An Argument for Feminist Digital Anthropology
By Ingrid Brudvig Ingrid Brudvig explores how feminist research methodologies need to be reconfigured in the digital context, assessing their…
No magic bullets – Reclaiming the transformatory potential of e-commerce for women’s empowerment
With the announcement of the Joint Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment at the WTO Ministerial Conference in December…
