In this episode we speak with Bárbara Paes, a Brazil-based researcher, writer, connector and project manager working at the intersection of social justice, power and technology. She is also the co-director of Instituto Minas Programam, Brazil, where she help create spaces for Black Brazilian girls and women to learn about technology and develop content about tech and society through an anti-racist perspective.

About this segment:

APC’s Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) is a collaborative and multidisciplinary research project that “aims to build an emerging field of internet research with a feminist approach to inform and influence activism and policy making”.

Join us as we listen to the researchers discuss their work, each bringing unique knowledge and experience from their respective regions and fields of practice, bridging communities while highlighting the unique challenges and successes of transforming gendered structures of power.