Digital FeminismArticles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 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.

Research 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.

Through Latin American public-service cases, Joana Varon and Paz Peña ask who defines problems and bears the costs when algorithms allocate benefits or predict risk.

UNESCO and ICFJ combine survey, interview and social-media evidence to show how online violence silences women journalists and threatens the public’s right to know.

Plan International’s State of the World’s Girls 2020 report documents online harassment among girls and young women aged 15 - 25 and asks platforms, governments and communities to share responsibility.

The Feminist Data Manifest-No pairs refusal with commitment, asking how data attaches to bodies, reproduces inequality and whether people can meaningfully say no.

Amnesty’s Troll Patrol turned crowdsourced Twitter labels into evidence of racialized abuse against women in public life - and offers a case study in the limits of samples, categories and automated inference.

APC’s Feminist Principles of the Internet connect access, expression, privacy, consent and governance in one political framework for examining how technology distributes power.