Threading feminist digital futures for our planet

A feminist internet respects life in all its forms; it does not consume it. How can we change our choices around design, extraction, production, consumption and disposal of the technologies involved, from a care perspective?

This digital quilt is an invitation to thread connections and collaboration between digital rights, environmental justice and feminist movements, building solidarity through mutual learning and connecting towards collective action for Earth justice.

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gentle seduction

hiding and not hiding

That red hat glitters
with the smile

Seducing us with
the mosses the trunk the sun
the ferns
the photosynthesis

I am seduced
Infatuated
In love

- ㄗ, tw

waterfalls are most fascinating places of wonder!

A small hike through a mossy forest brings you to this fantastic waterfall within the everton conservancy. We like to bring our kids here to run free, connect with nature through mud, water, sticks and play.

- kathleen, waterfall at the everton conservancy, kwazulu-natal, south africa

Climate justice is social justice

"We need to change the narrative. Indigenous people's are the ones taking care of nature that all of us are affected by. We need everyone to join this fight - climate justice is social justice - it includes the protection of Indigenous People's rights and access to technology that we can control to strengthen our communities and sustain our ways of protecting the environment." Joan Carling speaking at Digital Rights Asia-Pacific 2023.

The roots of all living things are tied together

"The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another." Joan Halifax

Collective care towards a feminist internet

"A feminist internet respects life in all its forms; it does not consume it. Our proposal for a feminist internet principle in relation to the environment resignifies care towards an ethics of collective care in choices around design, extraction, production, consumption and disposal of the technologies involved."

From the draft Feminist Principle of the Internet on Environment. Join us in collectively and collaboratively commenting on, expanding, imagining and dreaming into this principle.

Send responses to: ftx@apcwomen.org

What kind of technology do we want to support?

"What kind of environment do we want to live in, and what kind of technology do we want to support it? Not only for us, the humans, but all living beings. Do we want an environment where we provide for each other? Maybe we don’t want big data centres and companies. Maybe all we need our own Community Networks, small servers and just enough to hold our communities knowledge, and we can decide who we want to share them with and how." [Taken from an input by Dhyta Caturani at APC DiscoTech Reboot Earth: Experiences at the intersection of environment and technology, May 2023.]

The seed

"Just like the seed

I don't know where to go

Through dirt and shadow, I grow

I'm reaching light through the struggle

Just like the sea I'm chasing the wonder

I unravel myself

All in slow motion"

Fragment of the song "The seed" by Aurora.

Drawing by Flavia Fascendini

Quote from Joanna Macy

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.” Quote from Joanna Macy

- jennifer, cape town, south africa

no separation

there is no separation between humans and the earth. everything is connected. as soon as this awareness rises in each person, there will be less extraction from and destruction of the earth and oceans.

- jennifer, cape town, south africa

We are all connected

Sometimes our connections are digital, sometimes they take the form of masses of people out in the streets, and sometimes it's taking a moment to connect with our environment. Whatever connection looks like to you, remember to nurture it, and yourself.

- Maja, Canada

The little things

No act of care is too small. It makes a difference to someone.

- Maja, Canada

Beginnings

I recently saw this house sitting quietly inside a thick forest in the Himalayas, away from the town centre and with only Buddhist monks as neighbours. It was both beautiful and ugly, this sight of a building among the dense trees and thin mountains. This is how it begins. How do we slow ourselves enough to stay on the seesaw of our planet, and not fall off?

- Gaurav Jain, India

resilience

No matter what we build, nature will overcome the structure in its elegant way. I care by cheering along.

- 卡ㄗ

Old rings in the trunks

I care by reminding myself and others that we do not need to cut down the trees to know their trunks have old rings in them, guardians of wisdom and memory. And I remind myself and others that digital technologies can imitate this instead of destroying it.

- Collage by Flavia Fascendini, Argentina

Fight pollution - save the planet!

I am a 14 years old student from Argentina who cares about nature and the planet. In my school class we are studying the ways in which we can become more sustainable and to fight pollution. We want to save the planet!

- Bianca Fascendini da Silva