Presentation: Why Latin American perspectives on feminism, gender and sexuality in digital technologies¹

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