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Presentation: Why Latin American perspectives on feminism, gender and sexuality in digital technologies1 1 This article and the organization of the dossier “Feminism, gender and sexuality in digital technologies: Latin American perspectives” are part of the activities of the projects: (1) “Digital networks, backlash and datafication in Brazil”, with support from the Associação for Progressive Communications (APC) and the International Development Research Center (IDRC/Canada) as part of the “FIRN grants for undertaking research on making a feminist internet”, (2) “Digital networks, violence and politics: anti-rights discourse on social media platforms in Brazil” (Prociência UERJ/FAPERJ fellowship 2020-23), both by Horacio Sívori, and (3) “Inequalities and ethnography: internet, its uses, agency and possibilities in favelas of Rio de Janeiro” (Fapesp Young Researcher n. 2021/06857-7), by Carolina Parreiras.

Abstract

Fruit of a partnership between the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and the Association of Progressive Communication’s Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN/APC), this dossier gathers works in the Social Sciences and the Humanities produced by academic and civil society researchers from Brazil, Chile and Mexico. In their original or newly translated contributions, digital technologies meet issues of women’s health; violence against women; racist bias in artificial intelligence; Black and migrant women’s activism; women’s religiosity and self expression; male self-entrepreneurship; and ultra right-wing men’s networks. Our aim is not so much to address a singular object or to cover an absence but, rather, to connect thematic interests from diverse theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches in an open a dialog about the ways in which we have carried out research in, of, for and about the digital as it relates to gender, sexuality and feminisms in Latin America.

Keywords:
gender; sexuality; race; feminism; digital; information and communication technologies; Latin America

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