Feminist Digital Disruption during the Covid-19 Pandemic | Our Voices, Our Choices

As Covid-19 disrupts lives and societies across the globe, we talk to feminist activists about its intersection with gender and race. We hear how they’ve quickly adapted their digital practices, not only to circumvent the limitations of stay-at-home measures, but also as a means to tackle the virus’s impact on existing gender and racial inequalities. We hear how a Lebanese digital security expert has created a safe space for women and trans folks by ditching new technology for old and launching a lockdown radio station. We talk to activists from Brazil, India and Uruguay about their initiative to make the internet mirror all its users as the pandemic shifts our lives online. And we hear how social media is being used in Kenya to teach coding to girls whose access to computers has been curtailed by lingering lockdown measures. (A Podcast by Esme Nicholson)

Participants: Mariana Fossatti, Abir Ghattas, Linda Kamau, Anasuya Sengupta, Adele Vrana.

Editors: Gitanjali More, Katharina Prott and Christoph Mayer

Shownotes
Feminist participatory radio
https://hammamradio.com/

The campaign to make the internet less white, less straight, less male and less Global North in origin
https://whoseknowledge.org/

Teaching girls who've never used a computer how to code
https://akirachix.com/

Illustration: CC BY NC ND 4.0 Arinda Craciun