Technology Critique

Le Guin recasts technology and fiction through the carrier bag, challenging hero-centered stories of progress and making care, relations, and collective survival narratively visible.

UnHerd columnist Mary Harrington introduces 'reactionary feminism,' critiquing modern feminism as serving only elite professional women. She argues technological progress commodifies women's bodies and reproductive abilities, calling for a fundamental reassessment of what 'progress' means for most women.

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.'

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.

Through transnational interviews, Sarah T. Roberts reveals commercial content moderation: the automation and safety visible on platforms rely on secret, quantified, and outsourced human judgment.

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.

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.

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

Nighat 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.

Joy Buolamwini traces algorithmic bias from facial-analysis failures to the institutions that decide what systems see, whom they serve, and who can challenge their use.