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Books · Feb 2025
The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online
Simon James CoplandA comprehensive analysis of the online manosphere and its relationship to contemporary misogyny. Copland examines how digital platforms have enabled the formation of misogynistic communities that blend historical male grievances with modern technological capabilities to create new forms of anti-feminist resistance.
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Books · Mar 2023
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
Hawon JungFormer AFP Seoul correspondent Hawon Jung provides a firsthand account from the frontlines of South Korea's feminist movement, documenting how tens of thousands of Korean women sparked a MeToo wave, ended abortion bans, fought spycam crimes, and shattered Western stereotypes of 'docile' Asian women. Named one of The Economist's Best Books of 2023.
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Books · Mar 2023
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Meredith BroussardA powerful work by NYU professor, data scientist, and one of the few Black women AI researchers, Meredith Broussard. Reveals how tech neutrality is a myth and algorithms need accountability. From facial recognition only trained on lighter skin tones, to mortgage algorithms encouraging discriminatory lending, to dangerous feedback loops in medical diagnostic algorithms. Solution isn't making omnipresent tech more inclusive, but rooting out algorithms that target demographics as 'other.'
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Books · Mar 2022
The Cyberfeminism Index
Mindy SeuA pioneering work exploring feminism in the digital age, analyzing how the internet, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies are reshaping gender relations and feminist practice.
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Books · Aug 2021
The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot
Yolande Strengers and Jenny KennedyYolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy trace how voice assistants, domestic robots, and intimate technologies encode wifework into the future home, then propose a feminist reboot.
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Books · Mar 2021
Your Computer Is on Fire
Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita PhilipThis collection rewrites computing history through colonialism, race, gender, environment, and labor, refusing to treat technical problems as merely engineering problems.
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Giving Voice to Absence
Verónica VillalvazoMexican journalist and activist Verónica Villalvazo explains the daily work of documenting feminicide and accompanying families when official institutions allow victims to disappear twice.
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Videos · Dec 2018
A 101 on the Feminist Movement in India
Japleen PasrichaFeminism in India founder Japleen Pasricha offers an accessible movement history while arguing that contemporary feminism must confront caste, class, sexuality, religion, and digital power together.
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Videos · Nov 2017
Without Laughter, There Is No Feminism
Cynthia HíjarMexican cartoonist Cynthia Híjar argues that feminist humor can expose everyday machismo, create shared recognition, and sustain movements without trivializing pain.
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Videos · Aug 2017
How Pakistani Women Are Taking the Internet Back
Nighat DadNighat Dad explains why access to the internet is inseparable from women’s freedom and how Pakistan’s cyber-harassment helpline turns digital rights into practical support and collective evidence.
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Videos · Jun 2013
A Saudi Woman Who Dared to Drive
Manal al-SharifManal al-Sharif recounts how filming herself driving turned an ordinary act into a campaign against Saudi Arabia’s system of gendered mobility and guardianship.
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Podcasts · Sep 2025
Big Bitch Energy
Krystle & KimberBig Bitch Energy is a feminist podcast hosted by Krystle and Kimber, exploring gender, labor, and cultural issues with socialist leanings and critical humor. The show covers content ranging from sexual harassment in the tech industry, colonialism criticism, body politics, academic patriarchy, social media norms, and gender exclusion in gaming culture. With a sharp, satirical, and left-wing critical style, it represents one of the feminist voices in the Canadian context.
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Podcasts · Sep 2025
She Who Persisted. The Nasty Podcast
She Who Persisted CollectiveShe Who Persisted is a biweekly feminist podcast co-hosted by an American and an Austrian, focusing on cross-cultural gender issues, political events, and marginalized communities' history. The show covers abortion rights, gaming culture, tech industry sexism, LGBTQ+ history, and media representation critique, with a sharp, humorous, and critical style emphasizing transnational feminist perspectives and community memory.
Articles
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From Suffrage Movements to #MeToo: The Enduring Global Fight for Gender Equality
Isabela De los Rios HernándezThis article traces the evolution of feminist movements from the 19th-century suffrage campaigns to the digital activism of the #MeToo era. It explores the four waves of feminism, their historical contexts, and the persistent global challenges to gender equality, including political representation, reproductive rights, and social stigma.
02Articles · Nov 2024
Reproductive Rights in the Digital Surveillance Era: When Technology Becomes a Tool of Oppression
Electronic Frontier Foundation & Privacy InternationalIn the post-Roe era, digital privacy has suddenly become a matter of life and death for abortion seekers. Period tracking apps, search histories, and location data can all become evidence for prosecution. This article analyzes how digital surveillance threatens reproductive freedom and how women can protect their digital privacy.
03Articles · Mar 2024
Gender Bias in AI: The 2024 Wake-Up Call
UN Women & UNESCONew research reveals 44% of AI systems show gender bias, while women's underrepresentation in tech is making it worse. From ChatGPT to image generators, AI is reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes.
04Articles · Jan 2024
The 4B Movement: Political Practice as Radical Negativity
The CutThe 4B movement (no marriage, no childbirth, no dating, no sex with men) is not merely a defensive retreat from extreme patriarchy, but a courageous 'political strike' aimed at paralyzing the mechanisms of patriarchal reproduction.
05Articles · May 2023
Online Opposition to Gender Equality
UN Women Asia and the PacificResearch from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines maps how anti-feminist narratives circulate online, showing that digital misogyny is organized through culture, platform incentives, and political identity rather than isolated bad behavior.
Papers
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Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Feminism: Empowering Women Through Digital Literacy
Premier Science Research TeamThis paper investigates the interplay between gender bias in AI systems and the potential of digital literacy to empower women in technology. Synthesizing research from 2010-2024, it examines how gender bias manifests in AI and the effectiveness of digital literacy initiatives.
02Papers · Jun 2024
Data Feminism for AI
Lauren F. Klein and Catherine D'IgnazioKlein and D'Ignazio apply the principles of Data Feminism to AI, calling for AI practice grounded in power analysis, intersectionality, co-design, situated knowledge, and refusal of harm.
03Papers · Feb 2018
Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification
Joy Buolamwini, Timnit GebruA groundbreaking 2018 FAccT study revealing severe bias in commercial facial recognition systems against darker-skinned women, with error rates up to 34.7% compared to just 0.8% for lighter-skinned males.
04Papers · Oct 2016
Feminist Data Visualization
Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. KleinD'Ignazio and Klein bring feminist theory into data visualization, proposing ways to redesign data expression around power, affect, embodiment, positionality, and uncertainty.
05Papers · Jan 2016
A Future for Intersectional Black Feminist Technology Studies
Safiya Umoja NobleNoble argues for Black feminist technology studies, showing how search, platforms, and digital infrastructures reproduce racialized and gendered power rather than operating as neutral tools.
06Papers · Jan 1985
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Donna HarawayThis influential essay reimagines feminist theory through the metaphor of the cyborg - a hybrid of machine and organism. Haraway critiques traditional boundaries between human and non-human, nature and culture, and proposes a post-gender, post-essentialist feminist politics rooted in affinity, irony, and technological embodiment.
