What Girls Want: A Podcast
Adolescent girls, young women and gender-diverse young people leading COVID-19 responses and recovery interventions with intersectional feminist leadership and strategies.
What Girls Want: A Podcast
Episode 22 - Technology facilitated gender-based violence: an evolving pandemic
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ATHENA Network
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On this episode we spoke to Baleseng Maeneche from South Africa!
We reflected on and unpacked:
- What is technology based GBV and the different ways it manifests
- How gender-based violence and stereotypes manifest in media representations?
- The politics of genocide, violence and erasure
- How technology facilitated gender-based violence contributes to gendered inequalities
- The disproportionate violence adolescent girls, young women and young gender-diverse people face online
- Creating social media platforms and mechanisms that can prevent and reduce online gender-based violence
- Safeguarding tips we can adopt to protected ourselves online
Baleseng is a PhD student in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape. Her research interests encompass feminist media studies and decolonial perspectives, with a strong commitment to advancing gender equality and social justice. She is also a graduate lecturing assistant and researcher on the multinational, EU-funded RE-Wiring Representations project within WGS. When she isn’t tackling the mammoth task of writing a PhD thesis you’ll find her dancing, getting lost in her favourite series or on her yoga mat.