Transfeminism, also written trans feminism, has been defined by scholar and activist Emi Koyama as “a movement open to other queers, intersex people, trans men, non-trans women, non-trans men and others who are sympathetic toward needs of trans women and consider their alliance with trans women to be essential for their own liberation.
Transfeminism can give a framework to revisit information technologies guided today by data and algorithms that propose problematic visions of the way society/humanity addresses its major challenges problems: health, energy, occupation of urban spaces, economy, science etc. Transfeminist perspectives can be applied to discuss and question the epistemological underlying principles that legitimate information technologies.
The question is how are gender issues, and particularly how do information technologies legitimate exclusion, exploitation, misogynist and colonial practices? is it possible to propose alternatives to develop inclusive, horizontal and decolonial IT? The question are complex and they can be analysed from different perspectives. Therefore I promote actions from the point of view of different feminisms that can converse and let emerge the hidden threads that weave together to devise alternative ways of designing information technologies:
- WSTEM
- WLead@STEM: an action within the conference AICCSA that studies the role of women in STEM considering: age, class, race, childfreedom, etc. We have organised three editions with invited talks and panellist from countries of the global south and north (2020, 2021, 2022).
- WSTEM talks: BSC-UPC -CONACyT summit
- ADBIS 2022 D&I panel: “Promoting equity, diversity and inclusion: policies, strategies, and future directions in higher education, research communities, and business”
- Diversity & Inclusion in the database community: LIRIS lab gender equity officer, EDBT Endowment D&I Officer, EDBT/ICDT 2021 and 2022 D&I co-chair.
- Data Science decolonisation
- Activism: Tierra Comun, A+ Alliance
- Talks and Panels:
- Analysing crowds mobility from decolonisation and inclusive perspectives, MDM 2022
- International Forum Decolonial Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality, and Patriarchy: Art, Activism, and Academia, U. Tübingen 2022: Calling for a feminist revolt to decolonise data and algorithms in the age of Datification, Decolonial Strategies Panel