Empowered Yet Exposed: Disability in the Age of Technology
-Ajita Devkota In this era, technology has become our heart and brain. We live with technology, we grow with technology, and we shape our perspectives based on what digital media presents to us. Technology has granted us freedom, agency, and the power to...
Not Just a Rumor: Living Through Digital Violence
-Firefly We are in the 21st century where technology and social media is very popular among us. People use it for their day to day basis and life without it seems almost impossible. However, in this era of technology, I am scared to use it all because of that one...
Unsolicited Nudes and Digital Abuse, Not Flirtation
-Binisha maharjan When I was a teenager, I used Facebook and Messenger to connect with my family and friends. As a playful and innocent girl, I liked to share pictures and write statuses every now and then. It wasn’t the era of followers and follow-backs yet,...
Digital Sex Work: An Inside Perspective
Written by Autobiographer Sex work can be defined as the exchange of specific sexual services. The experiences of people who engage in sex work are incredibly diverse and influenced by social structures and economic realities. While some individuals may freely...
अनलाइन जातवाद; अनुभव र प्रभाव
-राधिका परियार मैले फेसबुक चलाउन थालेको सन् २०१३ हो, जति बेला नाम राधिका कार्की राखे । मैले किन कार्की राखे भन्ने कुरा हिमाल खबरमा प्रकाशित लेखमास्पष्ट पारेकि छु । सन् २०१५ देखि २०१९ सम्म मैले राधिका मात्र राखेर चलाए, त्यो समय नाम पछाडिको थर सोध्नेहरुको हरेक...
Quarterly Media Monitoring Report (Apr – June 2023)
अभिवाक्ति स्वतन्त्रता र प्रविधिमा आधारित/ अनलाईन हिंसा जूनको महिनालाई प्राईड मान्थ भनिन्छ | विविध पहिचान बोकेका क्वेर समुदाय (लैंगिक पहिचान, लैंगिक अभिव्यक्ति, यौनिक अभिमुखीकरण, र यौनिक विशेषता) भएका व्यक्तिहरूले यस महिनालाई उत्सवको रूपमा मनाउने गर्दछन् । सो उत्सव...
My Love-Hate Relationship with Dating Apps
Written by Bibhu I installed Tinder for the first time a few years ago to ‘get over’ an ugly breakup. Extraordinarily soon after pledging singlehood, I needed to fall into one dalliance then another. Or so to speak, my body asked for one. My best friend had...
Quarterly Media Monitoring Report (Jan – Mar 2023)
गोपनीयता र डाटाको गोपनीयताको गफ पछिल्लो तीन महिनामा गोपनियता भंग भएका केहि घटनाहरु हामीले अवलोकन गर्यौँ । यी घटनाहरुलाई हेर्दा यो राज्य पक्ष र सेवा प्रदायकको प्रत्यक्ष लापरवाही थियो, साथै यसको परिणाम अनलाइन माध्यमबाट हुने विभिन्न हिंसा (जस्तै मानसिक हिंसा) को कारक पनि...
How Musk’s Twitter buyout may do more to cage the bird than to free it.
Written by Alisha M. "The bird is free," tweeted Elon Musk, a pithy celebratory response to his successful buyout of Twitter. Musk's main ambition for Twitter was to transform it into "an inclusive arena of free speech." However, it turns out that the self-described...
The Allocishet Vision in Schools: A Digital Perspective
Digital surveillance of students by schools, reprehensible in itself, also disproportionately harms queer, trans and gender non-conforming youth Written by Pras Introduction While schools have always been sites of surveillance; monitoring what...