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Thread from X about my latest publication (December 2024) on the topic of inage-based abuse.

#IBA #IBSA #TFGBV #OGBV #VAW

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@GenderITorg: 🔧New: A two-part technical & legal guide for victim-survivors of image-based abuse, w focus on global majority. This comprehensive resource offers step-by-step guidance for content remov...
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February 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
takebackthetech.bsky.social
Digital surveillance in Kashmir acts as a character certificate — based on social media activities, journalism or human rights work, making its way into the files of the CID.

For women, the consequences (& harassment) are gendered. Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...

@apc.org #16Days
Image of a group of security officials looking at multiple screens showing civilian footage. Text: “Security officials treat people of my gender as if it’s a weak spot to shut us down”. How gender is weaponised against Women Human Rights Defenders in Kashmir Image of a group of security officials looking at multiple screens showing civilian footage. Text: For women human rights defenders in Kashmir, technologies of war—particularly digital surveillance—have been re-engineered to operate as intimate tools of intimidation. Not only are their public actions monitored, but their private lives are dissected under the state’s algorithmic gaze. Partial image of a group of security officials looking at multiple screens showing civilian footage. Text: Security officials use journalists’ digital presence to dissect private lives, from everyday movements to information on their families, during summons. This often means endangering sources or personal privacy. Partial image of a group of security officials looking at multiple screens showing civilian footage. Text: Women journalists are especially forced to keep their profile low because the intimidation uses their gender identity to silence them. This post has been adapted from a collection on militarisation and technology by Safety For Voices.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
takebackthetech.bsky.social
#WHRDVoices: Read the reflection of Mariam, a #Palestinian woman human rights defender, on the recent #Israeli colonial violence, the challenges, and what kept Palestinian human rights defenders going.

Now on #GenderITorg: genderit.org/Unyielding_A...

#16DaysOfActivism #NoTechForWar @apc.org
Image of people mobilising for Palestine. In the backdrop is a large wall or fort-like structure which is outlined. Text: “From childhood, we learn that Palestinians live a different reality from other people.” Image of people mobilising for Palestine. Text: “One becomes accustomed to going through Israeli military checkpoints, being subjected to searches, harassment, arrests, tear gas firings and sounds of gunfire.” Partial image of the outlined wall/fort-like structure. Text: “You inherit a level of trauma which, though normalised, grows with you and leaves a long-term impact.” Partial image of people mobilising. Text: “We also carry a particular anxiety as women, doing the best we can while thinking of our family and of others around us, who may, for example, face some form of surveillance or intimidation from the IOF or be subjected to visa or residence permit denial…”
December 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
takebackthetech.bsky.social
Women journalists and human rights defenders working in Lebanese frontlines face higher risks of cyber violence.

“The idea [behind repression] is to silence journalists [and] stop reporting on violations [or]corruption.” #NoTechForWar

Read on GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...

@apc.org
Illustration of a woman working on a computer. In the background are windows opening up to a warscape. Text: “What we saw during the last war, particularly the escalation, was that there were warning signs for people who work on documenting violence, that if you’re documenting what’s going on in the ground, you may become a target.” — Ramzi Kaiss, a researcher with Human Rights Watch (on the war in Lebanon) Illustration of a window opening up to a warscape. Text: Kaiss has been a part of multiple HRW investigations documenting Israel’s targeted technology-driven location attacks on media and aid workers in Lebanon in the last 15 months, including the one that killed Najjar, Reda and Qassem last October. Israel has consistently denied HRW’s investigations, calling them false. Illustration of a window opening up to a warscape. Text: Women media workers in Lebanon have historically faced discrimination and harassment within close quarters, especially the Lebanese political parties. The recent past has seen Lebanese women journalists being compelled to flee the country, or being imprisoned for their work. “In a country like Lebanon, where, already in peace times, there exists discriminatory laws against women, especially ones that don’t protect them from physical and sexual abuse, reporting on war becomes even more challenging for women.” This post has been adapted from a collection on militarisation and technology by Safety For Voices.
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
takebackthetech.bsky.social
Highly visible movements are targeted on social media as “a calculated effort to reverse the gains of the 2010s, and to isolate and punish those who dared to be visible,” says Zoya Rahman. #WHRDVoices #16Days @apc.org

Deconstruct #BigTech visibility on @GenderITorg: genderit.org/Unyielding_A...
An outlined illustration of a protest with barbed wire graphics. Text: “State crackdowns on digital spaces often attempt to fracture the collective by isolating and punishing visible individuals.” Barbed wire graphics with part of the protest imagery visible. Text: “It is a strategy designed to dismantle the "we" by targeting the faces that make the political work more discernible.” Barbed wire graphics with part of the protest imagery visible. Text: “What we name as online visibility is never neutral. It is shaped by who is watching, who is targeted, who is deemed expendable.” Barbed wire graphics with part of the protest imagery visible. Text: “Where internet access is dictated by the state, digital erasure is a form of political silencing. Digital access shapes who gets seen and who remains invisible.” (in small text) This post has been adapted from an anthology by Women Human Rights Defenders by Safety For Voices.
December 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
aldebaran14.bsky.social
GenderIT has published a thread on X summarising my new article:

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GenderIT.org on X: "🇮🇳NEW: A growing network of men’s rights activists in India is shaping public discourse through #GenderedDisinformation, targeting feminists & welfare schemes. @aldebaran14 says this isnt just misinformation. It’s organised, emotional, & political. Read: https://t.co/4CToWAVmmC https://t.co/tNJLGn0VWu" / X
🇮🇳NEW: A growing network of men’s rights activists in India is shaping public discourse through #GenderedDisinformation, targeting feminists & welfare schemes. @aldebaran14 says this isnt just misinformation. It’s organised, emotional, & political. Read: https://t.co/4CToWAVmmC https://t.co/tNJLGn0VWu
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July 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
takebackthetech.bsky.social
“The moment an opinion divulges from the status quo, their personal identity becomes a weapon for character assassination.”

Have you seen this happen around you? #India

Read on @GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...

#NoTechForWar #NarrativesOfPower @apc.org
Illustration of a long-haired person holding up a signboard: We the people of India. Behind them is a fire. Four panels of illustrations. Panel 1: A yelling mouth coming out of a phone screen with eyes on it. Panel 2: A figure surrounded by browser tabs filled with insults and hate speech. Panel 3: Two hands pointing towards a figure on the corner. Part 4: A phone with text on the screen: Lock your profile. Social media icons and text bubbles coming out of it. A browser tab with web address: http://shameladyboy.sendthreats.com The screen is divided into multiple panels with eyes, figures of women, hate speech, and sexual advertisements. Browser tab with the same web address. Text: “The act of voicing dissent, engaging in political praxis, or even articulating alternative ideas has historically entailed significant socio-political risks… leaving them more vulnerable in a world governed by the digital.” Under digital siege: How marginalised genders survive online stalking in India
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
takebackthetech.bsky.social
#WHRDVoices: Graciela, a campesina woman deeply rooted to the land, writes about how disinformation campaigns existed before the internet, and its parallels with disinformation campaigns on the internet.

Read on #GenderITorg: genderit.org/Unyielding_A...

#SafetyForVoices #16Days @apc.org
An outlined illustration of three women photographed together, close to each other. Text: “We have experienced repression and harassment from the Hierarchical Church, from large landholders and from the government, who for decades accused our struggle of [being communist].” Text with block patterns behind: “The bishop used mass services to question young people, telling the congregation that it was communism.” (in small text) This post has been adapted from an anthology by Women Human Rights Defenders by Safety For Voices.
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
takebackthetech.bsky.social
On #WorldDisabilityDay, read about the human cost of RSF’s monopoly on Sudanese communications.

Aid groups, community kitchens and emergency response rooms struggle to deploy resources where they’re most needed. #NoTechForWar #16Days

Read @apc.org #GenderITorg: genderit.org/feminist-tal...
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Community centred connectivity initiatives are the sites of infrastructures of care and resistance. They hold the potential for a community's right to self determination.

Read more in this piece published on #GenderITorg:

genderit.org/Edition/Inte...

#AWIDForum2024 #RisingTogether
Image description: A single light bulb on the ceiling. Photo source: author. https://www.genderit.org/editorial/women-circles-hold-and-ground-community-networks
December 4, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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The new GenderIT edition focuses on the human dimension of cybersecurity, asking how we can think about it from a feminist perspective.

https://apc.org/en/news/new-genderitorg-edition-feminist-conversation-cybersecurity

#GenderandCybersecurity
Green layout with music, books, computers + two people speaking through phones made with glasses. Illustration by Paru Ramesh for GenderIT.
July 28, 2023 at 3:13 PM
mrafalow.bsky.social
Off to @PennGSE for @GenderITorg this weekend. Excited to be part of a movement for equity in education, tech, and making.
November 30, 2024 at 2:00 PM
pranesh-archive.bsky.social
#DesignChallenge #tech #gender
How would you design an anonymising network (like Tor/I2P) in such a way that it would be less useful to stalkers? cc: @GenderITorg @genderlogindia @APC_News @povmumbai
May 28, 2026 at 8:04 AM
pranesh-archive.bsky.social
Anonymity also enables revenge porn, death threats for being trans, and harassment. #ImagineAFeministInternet https://x.com/GenderITorg/status/624247668697657344
February 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
pranesh-archive.bsky.social
Nor is the "global multistakeholder community" #gender-balanced: http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/global-multistakeholder-community-neither-global-nor-multistakeholder @GenderITorg #TakeBackTheTech
February 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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There are others -- African American women -- who contest this account of BLM. https://x.com/GenderITorg/status/793639206719397888
February 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
pranesh-archive.bsky.social
cc: @genderlogindia @GenderITorg @nilanjanaroy
https://x.com/INBreakthrough/status/784627534579261441
February 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
pranesh-archive.bsky.social
Anonymity also enables revenge porn, death threats for being trans, and harassment. #ImagineAFeministInternet https://x.com/GenderITorg/status/624247668697657344
February 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
dominemoslastic.bsky.social
Las llamadas telefónicas personales, antes privadas, suelen aparecer en las redes sociales en #Etiopia.
Estas filtraciones no provienen de instituciones formales. Son difundidas por cuasi-influencers y actores digitales alineados con el gobierno.
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#16Dias
Imagen central de una mujer hablando por teléfono rodeada de una multitud. Text: «No se trata solo de política. Se trata de humillación. Convierten nuestras vidas privadas en armas». Cómo la vigilancia se convirtió en una estrategia política en Etiopía Imagen lateral de gente revoloteando. Sus ojos están completamente blancos y parecen pantallas. Text: La vigilancia en Etiopía ha evolucionado más allá de una mera función del Estado. (Y cuando se utiliza contra las mujeres, sus efectos son especialmente devastadores). Imagen en la esquina inferior izquierda de personas con ojos como pantallas que miran de reojo. Text: Las herramientas que antes se reservaban para la inteligencia militar —interceptación de llamadas, seguimiento de movimientos, recopilación de metadatos— ahora se utilizan para intimidar, humillar y silenciar a las defensoras de los derechos humanos (#Defensoras). Imagen en la parte inferior de un grupo de personas con ojos como pantallas. Text: Este ecosistema se nutre del miedo. La vigilancia no solo extrae información, sino que amplifica la vulnerabilidad, entrecruzándose con la misoginia, el estigma y la exclusión social profundamente arraigados. Esta publicación ha sido adaptada de una colección sobre militarización y tecnología de Safety For Voices.
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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December 5, 2024 at 10:57 AM