Whose Knowledge?: Recent Episodes
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The #VisibleWikiWomen campaign is an embodiment of our aspirations to organize in collaboration and in solidarity with our feminist partners, movements and friends looks like; from gathering African feminists at our first photobooth in Lusaka, in 2022, to speaking up in solidarity with African feminists and queer activists who were arrested in Zambia last year. Partnering with the incredible people at the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW) to document Soweto Pride last September, was a continuation of this solidarity.
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We write this in solidarity with the people of Palestine and beyond at this moment in time. But it is also an offering in full transparency, of our reflections to try and express ongoing solidarity in practice.
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This year felt like watering the flowers that bloomed and tending to the knowledge and digital justice ecosystem that Whose Knowledge? is both a part of and helps build, grow, and strengthen. When talking ‘roadmaps’ and strategic planning, we came up with a different framing: rivermaps. What if we understood our work through the motion and stillness of water?
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Wikimania Singapore is just around the corner, bringing together wikimedians and wikipedians from across the globe to discuss free and open knowledge, under the theme of “Diversity. Collaboration. Future.” Many members of our collective are packing their bags to the convening, ready to join the critical conversations and sense-making that emerge alongside our friends and allies in the movement.
As we prepare to convene in Singapore, we invite you to browse through the sessions and interventions we’re co-holding and joining at Wikimania 2023.
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Knowledge Justice Research Lead Maari Maitreyi explores how hegemonic communities’ views, agenda, categories of classification and decisions can be embedded in Wikidata and established as truth. If we aim to decolonize structured data, how can we engage critically with it and reflect the lives, histories, cultures of our people and communities and fortify our realities on these platforms?
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June was a busy month for the Decolonizing Wikipedia program and our #VisibleWikiWomen campaign. Early on, the Decolonizing Wikipedia coordinator Mariana Fossatti flew to San José, in Costa Rica, to participate in two gatherings. As an attendee and zine collaborator, she joined the Encuentro para imaginar infraestructuras de cuidado y medio ambiente (Convening to Imagine Infrastructures of Care and the Environment), co-held by APC and the Sulá Batsú cooperative. After co-conspiring with feministas latinas and fellow techies, Mariana was at the RightsCon Summit for a series of sessions. Read her reflections on the experience in Costa Rica.
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Claudia Pozo, Whose Knowledge? Language Justice coordinator reflects on the Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC23). The conference was convened by EngageMedia with the DRAPAC steering committee and various partners, in picturesque Chiang Mai, Thailand, from 22 to 26 May 2023. With over 160 sessions, the conference intended to build momentum, reconnect, and boost collaborations, after the pandemic forced us all to stay connected with our digital communities from afar.
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In the session "Protest+Power: Feminist movement organising in technology", speakers brought their experiences as grassroots activists coming from South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. They have been at the forefront of feminist tech organizing in the Larger World (Global South). The event took place in New York City, during the CSW NGO Forum, and was co-organized by Whose Knowledge?, Numun Fund, and the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). The participants were moderator Sheena Magenya (APC), Jac sm Kee (Numun Fund), Marla (MariaLab), Dhyta Caturani (Purple Code), Irene Mwendwa (Pollicy), and Shubha Kayastha (Body & Data).
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For the past five years, we have launched the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign on the 8th of March, in commemoration of International Women’s Day. This date has always been a combination of celebration and resistance for us. This year, after many conversations, and deeper reflections on where we want the campaign to go – in different and radical ways - we’ve made the decision to decenter International Women’s Day.
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Our podcast, Whose Voices?, is back with a new season focussing on languages, taking our work on knowledge justice, language tech and feminist digital infrastructures even further.
For this season we bring six mini episodes featuring conversations with thoughtful, powerful folks working to reclaim our many languages beyond English on the internet.
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For years, the Ethiopian government has relied on its dominance as a telecoms and internet provider to cut groups out of the web, hide war crimes and human rights violations. A region currently facing a genocide by the Ethiopian government is Tigray, an area in the north of the country. Since 2020, the government has engineered the longest continuous internet shutdown in the world, keeping Tigrayans isolated in the middle of a war that has cost their livelihood and lives.
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How does a collective deepen, hold change and evolve? 2022 was a year of grappling with these questions (and many more!), all the while envisioning hopes and new futures. As we wrap up this year, we are carrying all the light and energy from this and previous years, and we know our dreams will continue to flourish because we have held, supported, and been supported by, a community of care.
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In this third blog post as part of our "#16DaysOfActivism: Reproductive injustice is violence against women in digital and physical worlds" series, we look at reliable information about safe abortion available online in different languages
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This blog post forms part two of our "#16DaysOfActivism: Reproductive injustice is violence against women in digital and physical worlds" series.
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This blog post is part one of our "#16DaysOfActivism: Reproductive injustice is violence against women in digital and physical worlds" series.
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Whose Knowledge? (WK?) has committed to put in place policies and resources that allow for the deep work to surface difficult dynamics in internal practices and to collectively try out new strategies and learn from them. This blog is a reflection of some recent journeying to centre collective practices in which love, respect, and solidarity are ingrained in all the work and dynamics.
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In this re-shared blog post from African Feminism, our #VisibleWikiWomen coordinator, Sunshine Fionah Komusana, reflects on the activism of African feminists in online spaces.
African feminist activism in digital rights, knowledge justice and language advocacy is thriving despite the colonial legacies, patriarchal African leaders and poor tech infrastructure.
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In this episode, Kenyan transgender activist and feminist Arya Jeipea Karijo, guides us through a fascinating path of unraveling the complexities of online representation of trans people from marginalized communities.
Language is also much more than simply a means to communicate: it is how we express what we think, believe, and know. To be multilingual is to honor and affirm the full richness and textures of our many selves and our different worlds better. But what would a truly multilingual and multimodal internet look, feel, and sound like?
The STIL report has been an extraordinary community-sourced effort, with nearly one hundred people involved, and this will be our first opportunity to introduce its findings and contributions to the world. Join us! We are launching our State of the Internet’s Languages (STIL) report on February 23rd. Read more about it!
In 2021, we celebrated five years as a campaign and a feminist collective, welcomed more members to our (small but mighty) team, and helped launch the first dedicated fund for feminist tech in and for the Global South. In this blog post, we offer you a glimpse of some of our milestones in 2021.
To celebrate the many steps we’ve taken, large and small, on this path to knowledge justice, we want to share with you glimpses of what we have done and achieved. We invite you to click through these memories and don’t miss out on our entire week of celebrations! You’re invited to join our social media party, which is taking place this Thursday, September 23rd, on Twitter 🎉
There was a climate change press conference in early 2020 hosted in Davos, Switzerland, with climate activists from around the world including Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson, and Loukina Tille. Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate activist, also attended. When a picture was taken of all five young women at the press conference,Vanessa was cropped out of the image before it was posted to Twitter. Stories like this happen everywhere on the internet.
The Covid-19 Pandemic has brought forth questions around lifestyle and consumption levels, developmental issues, large projects with damaging ecological footprints, concerns regarding who benefits through big projects and who pays the price, sustainable and equitable development and related issues like never before.
VisibleWikiWomen 2021, set against the challenges of life with the COVID-19 pandemic, will be memorable for the feminist realities it brought out of us and our communities. Don’t miss out on our closing blog post, where five advocates for women’s visibility online take the mic to tell the story of this year’s campaign.
When womxn are not writing the news, our voices, perspectives and worldviews are excluded from the stories that get published. When we are not the decision makers around what gets published, our images, stories and contributions are erased or often portrayed through a biased and stereotypical patriarchal lens. Read more about how four African journalists are changing this through the online magazine FeminStyle.
We want to put faces to this revolution of feminist realities that is happening, which is why we are inviting you to join us in this year’s #VisibleWikiWomen campaign, by sharing the images of those people or collectives who are carrying out these alternatives in your world. We want the whole world to know their stories too! Think specially also about the feminists that may have fewer opportunities to be in the spotlight, such as grassroots organizers, black feminists, trans and non-binary folks.
Here is an update of this year's intense ride! We share news about how our team will change in the coming year, we revisit our fight against invisibility at the intersections of two global pandemics: COVID-19 and anti-Blackness, we also share some highlights of conversations and creations throughout the year, and a glimpse of out exciting plans for the future, including the upcoming State of the Internet's Languages report!
The third edition of #VisibleWikiWomen comes to an end. In the past three years, from March to May, we and our partners - feminist organizations, Wikimedia communities, media and cultural institutions - have brought over 14,000 images of women to Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia’s multimedia repository! Revisit the most significant moments in this blog post and keep making women visible on Wikipedia and the broader internet!
In January 2020, Vanessa Nakate, a young Ugandan climate justice activist was cropped out of a group photo at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, were she spoke together with four white climate activists. What happened to Vanessa Nakate proves (once again) that invisibility is real, violent, and socially constructed to preserve structures of powers and privilege. Vanessa’s story is also a symptom of how the climate crisis is unequally and unfairly impacting those we see less.