Graphic reads ‘Feminist Tech Principle #11: Erotic content is not inherently harmful. Agency, consent, power, and labor matter.’

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Bold text reads “365toEndGBV.” Below are line icons representing liking, commenting, sharing, and saving, followed by platform icons for Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. At the bottom, white text reads: “CUNY SPH Sexual & Reproductive Justice Hub.”

Not all erotic content is harmful.

Consent, agency, and power matter in digital content

Digital rights include the right to express, create, and define sexuality on our own terms.

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Feminist tech insists on something simple and radical:
digital spaces where people can express themselves fully—without fear, punishment, or erasure.

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Graphic reads: “Feminist Tech Principle #10: Freedom of Expression.” Text states that platforms, laws, and algorithms decide whose expression is visible and whose is erased.

Graphic reads: “Freedom of Expression.” Text states that feminist and queer voices are flagged, shadowbanned, and silenced, and that censorship is intentional and by design.

Graphic reads: “Freedom of Expression.” Text states that defending digital spaces means defending the right to desire, speak, and exist fully.

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Censorship is built into platforms.

This is not accidental. It reflects long-standing efforts to control bodies and narratives, now scaled through digital infrastructure.

Freedom of expression includes sexuality—online too.

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Graphic with purple-to-coral gradient and bright green accents. Text reads: “Feminist Tech Principle #9: Amplifying feminist discourse.” Below, icons of a speaker and sound waves. Additional text: “The internet can amplify feminist voices and lived realities.”

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Feminists use digital spaces to share and document injustice, and to build solidarity across the world.

📊 However, UN research shows that women journalists and activists experience high levels of online GBV to silence their voices.

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Purple-to-coral gradient with bright green border and icons (tools, coins, circular arrows, apple). Text reads: “Feminist Tech Principles #7–8: Alternative economies and free and open source. Technology should strengthen cooperation, not corporate control.” Visual emphasizes collaboration, shared resources, and non-extractive systems.

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Technology is an economic system.
The Feminist Principles of the Internet ask who owns technology and who benefits from it.
📊 Open technologies support collaboration, transparency, and shared innovation.
🫶 Feminist tech strengthens communities.
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Free and open technologies strengthen digital autonomy.

Feminist tech movements promote FLOSS so communities can understand, adapt, and share technology.

Knowledge grows when it is shared.

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Square graphic with a purple-to-coral gradient background and a bright green border. The title reads “Feminist Tech Principle #7: Alternative Economies.” Below are green line icons of tools, stacked coins with a dollar sign, circular exchange arrows, and an apple, representing production, money, exchange, and food systems. Bottom text reads: “Challenging profit-driven tech is key to preventing GBV.”

Graphic with a purple-to-coral gradient background and green border. Large white text at the top reads: “ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES.” Below are green line icons of tools, coins, circular arrows, and an apple. Large white text at the bottom reads: “Feminist digital economies prioritize cooperation, care, and collective power.”

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🟢 🌐 The dominant digital economy runs on profit and corporate control.
This concentrates power, deepens inequality, and creates conditions that enable GBV.
Digital economies can redistribute power.
Transforming governance is part of preventing GBV.

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Graphic with a purple-to-coral gradient background and green border. Large white text reads: “FEMINIST TECH PRINCIPLES #4–6.” Below: “MOVEMENTS & PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.” A green braided line separates sections. White text continues: “Feminist movements and public participation are essential to prevent gender-based violence.” Final line reads: “Resistance, movement building, and decision-making power shape safer and more just digital spaces.”

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🟢 🌐 The internet is political.

The Feminist Principles of the Internet affirm that digital governance shapes power and participation.
UN Women and OHCHR show that exclusion increases online violence.
Feminist participation strengthens autonomy and safety.

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🟢 🌐 Democratizing internet governance helps prevent gender-based violence.
Who decides matters.
Democratizing tech governance strengthens safety and civic space.
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🟢 🌐 The internet strengthens feminist organizing.
Connection, accountability, and movement building help prevent gender-based violence.

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Square graphic with a purple-to-coral gradient background and a thin green border. Large white text at the top reads “RESISTANCE.” A simple green line drawing of an open hand appears beneath the title. White text below reads: “Digital spaces shape power, visibility, safety, and belonging.” A thin green line separates the sections. The final block of white text reads: “Building a feminist internet builds justice, autonomy, and dignity, and reflects feminist action and care.”

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🟢🌐 The internet is a political space where social norms shaped by patriarchy and heteronormativity are reproduced and challenged.

GBV extends into digital environments, which also support feminist organizing and collective action.

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Square graphic with a purple-to-coral gradient background and a thin green border. Large white text at the top reads “FEMINIST TECH PRINCIPLES #1–3.” Below, the word “ACCESS” appears in bold white letters. A simple green line illustration of an open hand is centered. At the bottom, white text reads: “The first three principles of the Feminist Tech Principles are centered in Access, because they address structural inequalities.”

Square graphic with a purple-to-coral gradient background and a thin green border. Large white text at the top reads “ACCESS.” A green line illustration of an open hand is centered. White text below reads: “Meaningful access to technology is a foundation for preventing GBV.”

Square graphic with a purple-to-coral gradient background and a thin green border. Large white text at the top reads “ACCESS.” A green line drawing of an open hand appears in the center. White text below reads: “Access, use, and digital literacy enable safer participation and the exercise of rights in digital spaces.”

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🟢 Access is a foundation of digital justice and the prevention of gender-based violence.

🌐 Principles 1, 2, and 3 are grouped together because meaningful internet access, real possibilities of use, and critical digital literacy are deeply connected.

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Graphic with a purple-to-coral gradient background and a bright green border. White text reads: “Feminist Tech Principle #3” and “Usage of Technology.” A simple green line illustration of an open hand appears in the center. Text at the bottom reads: “A feminist approach to technology focuses on how tools are used to support autonomy, safety, care, and collective resistance, not control or extraction.”

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Technology reflects intention and power.
How it’s used and who it serves shape its impact.

Across the world, women and LGBTQI+ communities use tech to organize, share care, protect one another, and make their voices visible.

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Graphic with a purple-to-coral gradient background and a bright green border. White text reads “Feminist Tech Principle #2” and “Access to Information.” A simple green line illustration of an open hand appears in the center. At the bottom, text reads: “A feminist internet protects our right to know.”

Illustration of a person seen from behind, standing against a purple-to-pink gradient background, hanging clothing on a clothesline. One garment appears opaque while another is minimal, symbolizing restriction and inequality. Large white text at the top reads: “When information is blocked, inequality grows.”

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Access to information sustains care, safety, and autonomy.

When knowledge is open and culturally relevant, people make stronger decisions, stay safer online, and participate more fully in society (UNESCO, Web Foundation).

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Digital rights are human rights.
✅ And access is the first door that must open.

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Today we launch #FeministTechThursdays 💻✨
Every Thursday, we’ll unpack one of the 17 Feminist Principles of the Internet—a framework built by feminist movements worldwide and led by @apc_network, to center rights, safety, care, autonomy, and justice in digital spaces.

Because tech is NOT neutral.