The Gender & Tech Online Talk Series brings together leading scholars, advocates, and practitioners to discuss the intersections of gender, technology, democracy, and human rights. It critically examines how digital platforms and technologies impact women, queer, and gender-diverse individuals while exploring pathways for more inclusive, rights-focused digital governance frameworks.
The fifth talk, “Data Work and Political Participation,” focuses on how data labor is gendered in its structures, practices, and outcomes. Speakers will be encouraged to address questions such as: How are gendered divisions of labor reproduced in digital economies? In what ways are women, queer, and gender-diverse workers disproportionately concentrated in invisible, precarious, or undervalued forms of labor that sustain platforms and AI systems? How do global inequalities intersect with gender to shape the conditions of platform labor? What frameworks—drawing from feminist political economy and labor justice—can ensure recognition, protection, and equity for workers at the core of digital infrastructures?
This online series, co-organized by Yasmin Curzi and Jess Reia, runs monthly featuring two speakers and international perspectives. It began in April 2025 and will continue through the first half of 2026. These are the confirmed dates and topics:
4/25 | Digital Colonialism
5/27 | Data Governance
8/28 | Platform Governance
9/29 | Technocapitalism and Environmental Justice
10/29 | Data Work and Political Participation
12/2 | Trans-inclusive Technology Governance
The 2026 topics and dates will be available later this year. All discussions will become an open access report.
