This is the second in a series of posts reporting on the Global Meeting on Gender, Sexuality and the Internet held in Port Dickson, Malaysia from April 13 to 17, 2014, to envision a feminist Internet and to evolve a framework for it. Around 50 activists working on gender rights, sexual rights and Internet rights […]
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Imagining a Misogyny-Free Internet
This is the first in a series of posts reporting on the Global Meeting on Gender, Sexuality and the Internet held in Port Dickson, Malaysia from April 13 to 17, 2014, to envision a feminist Internet and to evolve a framework for it. Around 50 activists working on gender rights, sexual rights and Internet rights […]
Sex, Lies and the Perils of Facebook Dating
The transition from an online to offline relationship is the trickiest to navigate when perfect strangers are involved. They met on Facebook. She was a married homemaker in her forties, who lied to him that she was 21 and single. He was all of 22. She was probably looking for the diversion and excitement of […]
Hooked On: Sex Work and Mobile Phones
Mobile phones, they said, have changed the nature of business. “I keep one mobile phone for the family and one for the clients,” said Renuka Kale, a sex worker in her late twenties living in Sangli district in south Maharashtra and an activist with VAMP* (Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad, also known as the Sex Workers’ […]
Snippets from “Gender, Sexuality and the Internet: A Workshop”, Kolkata
Point of View and Sanhita held a day-long meeting entitled “Gender, Sexuality and the Internet: A Workshop” at Kolkata on February 22, 2014. It was the third meeting of the second phase of the EroTICs India project; the first being held in Mumbai and the next in New Delhi. Topics such as online pornography, women […]
Decoding India’s Proposed Online Porn Ban – II
This is the third in a series of posts reporting on the day-long “Tangled, Like Wool” meeting held in New Delhi in January 2014. While the publication and transmission of online pornography is already an offence in India, two 2013 petitions — one filed in the Rajya Sabha and one in the Supreme Court — […]
Across the Digital Divide: Rural Women Journalists and ICTs
By Rohini Lakshané (text) and Zulfiya Hamzaki (photos) Rural women trying to access ICTs in developing countries often face the double whammy of the digital divide and of the constraints and restrictions imposed upon their gender. According to the “Women and the Web” report released by Intel in 2013, only 8.4 percent of the female […]