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From Digital Hate to Deadly Violence: Online Abuse, Antifeminism, and Feminicide in Germany

Digital violence often precedes a femicide. Digital control threatens those affected even without physical proximity to the perpetrators. Yet neither current law nor statistics capture this connection accurately. That has to change.

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Legacy of Quiet Resistance: Feminism in Tunisia through the Lens of History

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What does it mean to have a feminist perspective? Feminism has many faces. From the silent resilience of my grandmother to the current challenges - how has the feminist movement in Tunisia developed?

Sonia Hedhili

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Femicides and Silence: Navigating the Struggle for Feminist Solidarity in North Macedonia

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Can digital activism replace the power of in-person protests? In North Macedonia, dwindling protest numbers and rising anti-gender movements challenge the fight for gender equality. Activist Sara Milenkovska's insights on the urgent need for solidarity.

Angela Boshkoska

Queersplaining AI

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Katrin Köppert takes a new look at the explainability of AI systems, through a queer perspective. Queersplaining means not only explaining AI, but also revealing the inherent contradictions and power structures. An explainability that does not support the illusion of a universal solution, but recognises the complexity and context dependency of AI.

Katrin Köppert

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Algorithmic misogynoir in content moderation practice

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Existing content moderation practices, both algorithmically-driven and people-determined, are rooted in white colonialist culture. Black women’s opinions, experiences, and expertise are suppressed and their online communication streams are removed abruptly, silently, and quickly. Studying content moderation online has unearthed layers of algorithmic misogynoir, or racist misogyny directed against Black women. Tech companies, legislators and regulators in the U.S. have long ignored the continual mistreatment, misuse, and abuse of Black women online. This paper explores algorithmic misogynoir in content moderation and makes the case for the regular examination of the impact of content moderation tactics on Black women and other minoritized communities.

Brandeis Marshall

The Istanbul Convention and Queer Women Seeking Asylum

The Queer European Asylum Network has published a Policy Report which calls on all EU member states that have ratified or signed the Istanbul Convention to protect lesbian, bisexual, queer, intersex and trans women as a particularly vulnerable group from gender-based violence.

Dr. Mengia Tschalaer

Current Populism in Europe

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The book Current Populism in Europe: Gender-Backlash and Counter-strategies aims at exploring populism from various new conceptual, empirical and methodological perspectives.

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