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About Rohini Lakshané

Rohini Lakshané was the editor of EroTICs India (November 2013 - May 2014). She is a former technology journalist and a Wikipedian. Her core interests include 'openness', technology for good and online civil liberties.
Twitter: @aldebaran14

Imagining a Digitally Secure, Feminist Internet

May 9, 2014 By Rohini Lakshané Leave a Comment

Imagining a Digitally Secure, Feminist Internet

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 […]

Filed Under: Security Tagged With: digital security, Imagine A Feminist Internet, information security, online security

Imagining a Misogyny-Free Internet

April 24, 2014 By Rohini Lakshané Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Online VAW Tagged With: digital misogyny, gendered abuse online, Imagine A Feminist Internet, online abuse of women, online hate speech, online violence against women

Sex, Lies and the Perils of Facebook Dating

April 22, 2014 By Rohini Lakshané Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Privacy, Security Tagged With: sex and social media

Hooked On: Sex Work and Mobile Phones

April 1, 2014 By Rohini Lakshané 1 Comment

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’ […]

Filed Under: Gender & Tech, Sex Work Tagged With: ICTs and sex work, sex workers and mobile phones, sex workers in Miraj, sex workers in Sangli

Snippets from “Gender, Sexuality and the Internet: A Workshop”, Kolkata

March 22, 2014 By Rohini Lakshané Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Connect Your Rights, Kolkata Tagged With: amateur pornography, consent, Crowdmapping, crowdmapping violence against women, gendered abuse online, online intimacy, online pornography ban India

Decoding India’s Proposed Online Porn Ban – II

March 14, 2014 By Rohini Lakshané Leave a Comment

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 — […]

Filed Under: Connect Your Rights, Delhi 2014, Pornography Tagged With: access to information, free speech, obscenity, online pornography, online pornography ban India, online sexual expression, paternalism, porn and censorship, sex education, Tangled Like Wool Delhi

Across the Digital Divide: Rural Women Journalists and ICTs

March 6, 2014 By Rohini Lakshané 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Gender & Tech, Photo Feature Tagged With: digital divide, gender and ICTs, gender and online access, Khabar Lahariya, Point of View, rural journalism and ICTs, rural women and ICTs

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