Voices from Making a Feminist Internet 2022: Movement building in a digital age
In November 2022, APC’s Women’s Rights Programme brought together a diverse group of 50 participants around building resilient movements in the digital age.
Do you want to know more? Listen to #MakingAFeministInternet podcast:
MFI has its roots in imagining a feminist internet. MFIs are a series of face-to-face and online gatherings where activists working at different intersecting issues come together to strategise and activate how we MAKE this feminist internet.
Listen Episode 1 (17 minutes)
The gathering Space: Reconnect, Reflect, Reset
In this first episode, we asked participants what the MFI space means to them.
In November 2022, APC WRP hosted MFI2022 which focused on partners from the Our Voices our Futures (OVOF) project of which APC WRP is a consortium member, as well as allies from past and ongoing engagements with APC WRP, including Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) and the previous MFIs. MFI2022 brought together, face-to-face for the first time since 2020, a diverse group of over 50 participants which at the core, was about building resilient movements in the digital age that centre care and wellbeing.
Listen to the second episode where participants talk to what a feminist internet means to them in their contexts and in their activisms.
Listen Episode 2 (23 minutes)
Dream for a feminist internet: MFI participants speak to their dreams for a feminist internet
Participants at the MFI2022 speak to how they see a feminist internet and what a feminist internet means to them. What are the issues that impact them in their activisms and contexts and how do the feminist principles guide us towards a deeper understanding of what we want from the internet.
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Credits
Script and production: Rachel Wamoto and Jennifer Radloff
Presentation: Rachel Wamoto
Music: Hawi Okello
Mixing: Shel Mutei
Coordination: Jennifer Radloff
Consulting Board: Sheena Magenya, Smita, Kaca Fialova, Namita Aavriti Malhotra, Erika Smith, Hija Kamran
Logo: Cathy Chen
Web Design: Hija Kamran
And last but not the least, a HUGE thank you to all MFI2022 participants for their wisdom and insight that made this podcast possible.
Find out more about the topics covered in this episode:
We are not alone. We have each other. Rooting self and collective care at Making a Feminist Internet 2022
https://www.apc.org/en/blog/we-are-not-alone-we-have-each-other-rooting-self-and-collective-care-making-feminist-internet
Making a feminist internet: Movement building in a digital age in Africa
https://genderit.org/edition/making-feminist-internet-movement-building-digital-age-africa
Making a feminist internet: Building movements, remembering resistance, hacking security and care
https://genderit.org/edition/making-feminist-internet-building-movements-remembering-resistance-hacking-security-and
Feminist Principles of the Internet
https://feministinternet.org/
This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Our Voices, Our Futures project produced by Rachel Wamoto of Out of the Vacum Media
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This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Our Voices, Our Futures project.