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In September, we co-organised #DTIEastAfrica w/@FemnetProg – it was a magical gathering of amazing African feminist techies, teachers, wikipedians, activists and more!
In this thread, we share our report from the convening, and our conversations, prompts & dreams of the future 🧵 A collage of the Decolonisi...
It’s important to us to release our #DecolonisingTheInternetEastAfrica report today on International Women Human Rights Defenders Day. It’s #16DaysOfActivism2022, and this report is a celebration of the #WHRDs who teach and guide us – some of whom were with us in Zambia. ✊🏿
❇️ We learnt from them the many ways in which violence offline spills into the online and exists in the digital world, and the safety tactics used to limit #OGBV (online gender-based violence)
❇️ And shared our dreams for a more just on- and offline world. 🌙🤖
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How anti-choice organizations are slowly making their way into respectability: a 🧵. I’ve been witnessing the slow legitimization of #antichoice orgs in global spaces and conversations and this is concerning. 10 years ago, no one save the similarly conservative would have been
Caught dead talking and strategizing with them. It’s 2022, #SRHR are under severe backlash and constant threat, yet the artisans of said backlash have access to mainstream strategic conversations and briefings. They now benefit from several platforms from which they can reinforce
Their anti #SRHR messages, in seemingly all impunity. To me this highlight two things: how conservative populist gvts have relied on these orgs to access power and rewarding them for their support by giving them time and space and how these orgs have instrumentalized human rights
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