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Books · Feb 2025

The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online

Simon James Copland

A 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 Jung

Former 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 Broussard

A 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 Seu

A 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 Kennedy

Yolande 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 Philip

This anthology reads computing through colonialism, gendered labor, corporate power, and material infrastructure, asking what sustains the cloud and whether coding alone can change tech’s inequalities.

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Videos · Apr 2022

I Saw None, so I Built One: Women in the Tech Community

Aishath Adnan

Maldivian technology manager Aishath Adnan reflects on founding Women in Tech Maldives and connects women's visibility in tech to island connectivity, education and care policy.

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Videos · Jun 2021

How I Found My Voice Through Feminism

Situmbeko Wambulawae

Zambian Feminists founder Situmbeko Wambulawae considers how feminism can make space for women and girls to share sensitive experiences and find connection.

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Videos · Mar 2020

Giving Voice to Absence

Verónica Villalvazo

Mexican 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 · Jul 2019

Claiming Back the Role of Women in Technology

Melina Masnatta

Melina Masnatta traces how gender shapes who is encouraged into technology, from childhood and education to professional workplaces, and asks what institutions can change.

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Videos · Dec 2018

A 101 on the Feminist Movement in India

Japleen Pasricha

Feminism 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 Híjar

Mexican cartoonist Cynthia Híjar argues that feminist humor can expose everyday machismo, create shared recognition, and sustain movements without trivializing pain.

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Articles · Apr 2026

Tipping Point: Online Violence Against Women in the Age of AI

Julie Posetti, Kaylee Williams, Lea Hellmueller, Pauline Renaud, Nabeelah Shabbir & Nermine Aboulez

A UN Women-commissioned 2026 study examines online violence against women human-rights defenders, activists and journalists, including AI-enabled abuse, offline harm and self-censorship.

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Articles · Dec 2025

From Nairobi to Now: Power, Praxis, and the Making of African Feminist Futures

Titilope F. Ajayi

Titilope F. Ajayi moves from Nairobi 1985 through everyday organizing, Bring Back Our Girls and digital action to reflect on African feminist practice, memory and generational debate.

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Articles · Jan 2025

From Suffrage Movements to #MeToo: The Enduring Global Fight for Gender Equality

Isabela De los Rios Hernández

This 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.

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Articles · Nov 2024

Reproductive Rights in the Digital Surveillance Era: When Technology Becomes a Tool of Oppression

Electronic Frontier Foundation & Privacy International

In 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.

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Articles · Aug 2024

Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence Against Women Journalists in Southern Africa

Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)

MISA’s UNESCO-supported regional study records media workers’ experiences and observations of technology-facilitated gender-based violence, with a clear account of its sample limits.

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Articles · Mar 2024

Gender Bias in AI: The 2024 Wake-Up Call

UN Women & UNESCO

New 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.

Papers

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Papers · Jan 2025

Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Feminism: Empowering Women Through Digital Literacy

Premier Science Research Team

This 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.

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Papers · Jun 2024

Data Feminism for AI

Lauren F. Klein and Catherine D'Ignazio

Klein and D’Ignazio bring data feminism into AI research, using tenant screening, feminist data activism, and hidden annotation labor to examine power, consent, and environmental costs.

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Papers · Feb 2018

Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification

Joy Buolamwini, Timnit Gebru

A 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.

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Papers · Oct 2016

Feminist Data Visualization

Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein

D’Ignazio and Klein turn feminist epistemology into questions for visualization design: how categories, visual form, participation, context, and labor shape whose knowledge becomes legible.

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Papers · Jan 2016

A Future for Intersectional Black Feminist Technology Studies

Safiya Umoja Noble

Safiya Umoja Noble connects Black women's representation in search to the extraction, labor, and waste behind digital infrastructure.

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Papers · Jan 1985

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

Donna Haraway

This 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.