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Intersectionality of sexuality and internet governance
Intersectionality has been present in international policy spaces since 2001, as proved by Article 119 of the NGO Forum Declaration at the World Conference Against Racism definition applied to discrimination: [It] acknowledges that every person be it man or w...
Tips and tricks on how to engage in internet governance spaces
Over the years, it’s becoming increasingly that we need to work together to bring in gender and sexuality and diversity into the internet governance spaces. This is not different from how we work in other spaces and other rights issues. Here are some tips and ...
Introduction
This will look at some of the issues on digital safety as it applies to digital storytelling. We use the term “victim/survivor” or “victims/survivors” of human rights violations in our effort to fully appreciate and respect how people may identify different...
Our journey and approach with storytelling
The Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Rights Programme (APC WRP), started their journey with digital storytelling for transformation in 2007. Since then we have collaborated with partners around the globe to use digital storytelling as a femin...
Why storytelling?
What is the first story that you remember that was told to you or that you told to someone, and how did you feel? Do you remember the voice wishpering in the evening before falling asleep, your favourite bed time story? Stories are defining moments. They can ...
Introduction to using the manual
Please note that this manual is a work in progress! This manual is for trainers using storytelling as a feminist approach to facilitate space for activists to tell their stories in their own voices. Participants’ stories are not mediated through another nor ...
Nepal IGF 2018: Revisiting the experience
We have seen two national Internet Governance Forums (IGFs) in Nepal, in 2017 and 2018. During Nepal IGF 2018, around 150 people were gathered from different sectors, including people from public offices, lawyers, techies, civil society groups and students, ou...
Role of gender report cards at the internet governance forum
Gender Report Cards (GRCs) are a mechanism introduced in the 2011 IGF by APC as means to determine gender representation among the speakers, moderators, and participants at the Internet Governance Forum. The report cards also help track the inclusion of gender...
Nine reasons why we need more feminists in internet governance
By Sachini Perera As someone who is always excited by the prospect of influencing policy making (yes I'm a policy geek who has accepted this identity), I have for the last few years been trying to encourage other feminists and queers to get involved in inte...
Porn, sexuality and the internet
Developed for APC by Serene Lim and Angela M. Kuga Thas of KRYSS Network Porn and “deviant” sexuality are often at the centre of arguments to tighten content regulations online, inevitably implying a perceived harm and threat to social order and the minds of ...
Understanding intersectionality
Our understanding of intersectionality is needed because it is important not only to understand the “what” of discrimination but its complexities and “why” it takes place. Image source: Teaching Tolerance. 2016. Intersectionality 101. Available at https://...
Reclaiming expression
Developed for APC by Serene Lim and Angela M. Kuga Thas of KRYSS Network Social media companies generate huge profits from our expression and interaction, including those of feminists and LGBTIQ individuals or organisations. Feminists and LGBTIQ persons, in v...
Feminist server
Developed for APC by Serene Lim and Angela M. Kuga Thas of KRYSS Network The current internet is not a safe space for everyone. Stories of feminists and LGBTIQPA persons targeted with online violence and discrimination are common. We also hear of how their wo...
Role playing game on gender and internet governance
The idea of the role playing game is to think and learn together about intersectionality and internet governance in an embodied way rather than have speeches or debates which can be more analytical and not relatable. Aim: To get participants to think about ...
Recognising your power
Developed for APC by Serene Lim and Angela M. Kuga Thas of KRYSS Network About this learning activity This learning activity is the suggested tactical activity for “Sexuality and internet governance”. This activity is designed to encourage participants to ...
Mapping sexual rights activists and groups in internet governance
Developed for APC by Serene Lim and Angela M. Kuga Thas of KRYSS Network About this learning activity This learning activity is one of two suggested deepening activities on “Sexuality and internet governance”. This is the second of the two deepening acti...
Who is allowed to say what?
Designed to bring to the surface how certain voices are privileged while others are censored despite them speaking about the same content. About this learning activity This learning activity is one of two suggested deepening activities on “Sexuality and ...
Starter activity
About this learning activity This learning activity is the suggested starter activity for the module “Sexuality and internet governance”. It is designed to help participants think about their first-time excitement that they experienced with the internet, ...
Reading materials
Primary reading materials The Politics of Sexhttps://www.genderit.org/politics-sex In Plain Sight: Sexuality Rights and the Internet in India, Nepal and Sri Lankahttps://genderit.org/articles/plain-sight-sexuality-rights-and-internet-india-nepal-and-sri-lank...
Section 1: Digital identifiablity and content production
Expand our understanding of anonymity and how it is never a permanent state of non-identifiability. Introduction Oftentimes, we will immediately think of being anonymous when we do not want others to recognize us in the telling of our stories. There is no do...