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Utilising @femedtech to amplify voices

This work by Clare Thomson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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#femedtech - the network

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Using social media to

promote greater equality

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Networking through Networks

Femedtech benefits from its focus on Feminism, Education and Technology. Feminism celebrates difference, focusing “on the interplay of gender, race, disability, sexuality, class and power to make sure feminism is relevant to us all”. (Black et al 2019) But femedtech appears as predominantly UK, white, employed so how can we better celebrate difference?

Our current shared curation on Twitter was inspired by IndigenousX. By networking through diverse networks and welcoming their connection to us, we can learn and celebrate difference better eg #womenintech @FVTPPUK @The_WLN ‏ @EngenderScot #ReadTheOnePercent #GO_GN #ClearTheAir @IndigenousX This is work in progress.

Black, A. et al. (2019) Feminism is ... Edited by F. Baines. London: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

This slide by Frances Bell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Changing the Way the Stories are Told�

Fewer than 15% people who edit English language Wikipedia are women.

This leads to skewed coverage of topics.

If we create new editors who join the community we can change the culture as well as the content.

This slide was contributed by Melissa Highton under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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“Open spaces and communities are not without their hierarchies, their norms, their gatekeepers and their power structures. We need to look around our own open spaces and ask ourselves who is included and who is excluded, who is present and who is absent, and we need to ask ourselves why. And those of us who are already inside these open communities need to take positive action to make these spaces, not just open, but accessible and inclusive. And to do that, we need Deeds not Words.”

This slide was contributed by Lorna M. Campbell under a CC BY SA 4.0 licence. Photograph from Processions (London), CC BY-SA 4.0, by Alice White, on Wikimedia Commons.

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