Education: Weakening Connectivity and Growing Inequalities
As remote learning grows, differences in access to internet connectivity and electronic devices have created a new knot of inequality,…
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
What’s So Private about Online Sexual Harassment?
Reflections on the Madras High Court’s interpretation of “Public Place” in cases of sexual harassment in virtual spaces. Bhavna Jha…
Articulating a Feminist Response to Online Hate Speech: First Steps
Online publics, much like their offline counterparts, can be misogynistic and sexist. Effective feminist interventions into legal frameworks are necessary…
Seven Questions Unpacking Cancel Culture
Cancel culture has called out historical injustices but it could threaten the most marginalized among us. R Vaishno Bharati With…
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…
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….
