Take Back The Tech during 16 Days of Action Against Gender Violence
Are you ready for 16 days of activism against gender violence? Because it starts today, and WAM! is celebrating by profiling 16 people and organizations that WAM!mers love who are doing the creative hard work of ending violence against women.
A little background: The 16 Days of Activism is “an international campaign originating from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership in 1991. Participants chose the dates, November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a violation of human rights.” You can read more about it on their webpage at http://16dayscwgl.rutgers.edu/
We’re kicking things off with a campaign run in part by WAM!mer Erika Smith, which uses the 16 Days as their launching pad every year: Take Back the Tech!
In their own words:
Take Back the Tech! is a collaborative campaign to reclaim information and communication technologies (ICT) to end violence against women.The campaign calls on all ICT users – especially women and girls – to take control of technology and strategically use any ICT platform at hand (mobile phones, instant messengers, blogs, websites, digital cameras, email, podcasts and more) for activism against gender-based violence.Take Back the Tech! accompanies the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence (November 25 – December 10 each year) with daily actions that explore different aspects of violence against women and ICT tools.
Their site is chock-full of ways to get involved, from a mapping project to a 16-day-blogathon to video and graphic tools to a complete organizing kit if you want to create your own campaign. Given the recent attention that’s been paid to the real hazards of being female online (much of it spearheaded by WAM!mers), this year’s Take Back the Tech is more timely than ever. So what are you waiting for? Click through and take it back!
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