Set against Tajikistan’s political and social structure, this research deep dive into TFGBV as a continuum with offline violence, reinforcing patriarchal values and established gender norms that have power over women and are used to control them. 

In the era of AI-automated annihilation, the authors bring us through the many questions on what and how a truly decolonial act looks like – what sabotaging the tools of colonial genocide and occupation, and embracing limitations as anti-colonial praxis, could look like.

This research weaves together the experience of LGBTQIA+ communities in Ethiopia – how they are impacted by online gender-based violence, yet continue to exist and build community with creativity, resistance and strength.

As a feminist hacker organization, MariaLab questions how digital forensics can be used to address TFGBV cases, with the aim of developing feminist helplines through the systematization and improvement of consensual digital forensics. 

This research examines how black women and gender non-conforming persons experience TFGBV differently due to historical and geopolitical factors, and how TFGBV is used to silence bloggers and journalists doing feminist work.

Adopting an intersectional and participatory approach, this research shows the stories of how transgender, non-binary and gender-diverse people experience TFGBV, what strategies they employ to resist and safeguard themselves, and what barriers exist in accessing support.

This research, led by sex workers in collaboration with feminist academics, identified the challenges and opportunities they face online, as well as the safety and self-care strategies they develop individually and collectively.

This research provides an intersectional examination of the complex array of political, economic and social structures that contribute to shaping the realities of TFGBV in Egypt. 

This research explores the impacts of TFGBV on the experiences of Black Brazilian women, as well as documenting how we/they have been resisting, creating connections with each other and finding joy in spite of the hostility of online environments.

This GenderIT edition by FIRN is a collection of 11 reflections and analytical essays by FIRN and FIRN’s research partners on what it means to do research at this critical juncture, while having to go through the unbearable pain of witnessing genocide, conflict and war, gross and persistent human rights violations, criminalisation of sex work and LGBTQIA+ communities and intensification of anti-gender mobilisation, as well as operating under spectacularly failed international law, solidarity and transnational feminist movements.