The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) and EMPOWER-Malaysia, with the support of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), will be holding a three-day collaborative workshop on Imagine a Feminist Internet in Southeast Asia+ (IFI-SEA+) that will take place in Malaysia on 14-16 November 2019, as a continuation of the global process, space and conversation started in 2014, when over 50 women’s rights, sexual rights and internet rights activists and advocates from different parts of the world discussed and explored the intersections of gender, sexuality and technology.
The workshop aims to contribute to building a stronger Southeast Asia feminist internet and will serve as a platform for collaboration, connection and solidarity support for feminists/activists in the region, as well as providing a space for collective analysis, engagement and imagination by key and emerging actors located in different movements to interrogate and integrate a feminist political approach on internet and digital technologies and their impact across the broad range of rights.
Who should apply?
For this 2019 convening in Southeast Asia, we are looking for 40 fully committed participants from Southeast Asia and Taiwan who are actively involved in the politics of feminism, human rights and the internet, with strong experience in using digital platforms.
If you identify with any of the items below, we would love to receive your application to the workshop:
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Feminists, women’s rights, sexual rights or internet rights activists
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Tech activists, accelerators or innovators for social change
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Social media activists, change makers, creative practitioners with strong advocacy on feminism and human rights. These include journalists, bloggers, alternative media practitioners, artists, filmmakers, designers, online content creators, musicians, storytellers, creative writers, etc.
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Young people who are passionate about feminism, technology and human rights.
Please apply by filling in this application form on or before 31 August 2019 (11:59PM GMT+8).
Further details about the workshop will only be shared with the selected participants. Selected participants will be notified by the end of September.