Whose streets? Ours! Witness silencing. Occupy. Create. 25 Nov - 10 Dec.


Take Back the Tech! is a campaign that reclaims the internet and women's often ignored herstory with technology, exploring and encouraging the creative use of digital technologies to denounce and eliminate online gender-based violence (GBV). Its name echoes back to the Take Back the Night marches all over the world, where women reclaimed public streets as their own, especially at night when they were told to stay inside because it wasn't safe. Today, the streets of the internet are increasingly inseparable from the streets of our lives and our communities.

Feminist Forwards


Take Back the Tech! would not be complete without fun tech

play!We invite you to participate in our Feminist Forwards brainstorms in English and Spanish 4 December, and in French on 10 December, to collaboratively dream about the messages we'd like to receive and send in times of protest or celebration.

What sentiments would you like to see pop up on your message feed to fire your commitment?

What would you say to a friend in need? Or that perfect comeback you thought of after the fact?

2017 theme!


Revisit to resist: Histories of the movement to end gender-based violence
 
Last year Take Back the Tech! celebrated our tenth anniversary, which got us thinking about the movement to end gender-based violence (GBV), from its beginnings in the early 90s with the start of 16 Days of Action Against Gender-Based Violence and the UN's Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women to today's emerging and energetic movement around online GBV. What does that timeline look like? Who are the agitators? What are the key moments?

Safety Reboot! A feminist response to digital safety.


We want to challenge online gender-based violence and to engage technology with pleasure, creativity and curiosity. To do this, we all need to build our capacity in digital safety. Join us in two fun learning activities drawn from the beta-version of FTX: Safety Reboot.

Feminist Tech eXchanges

FTX is WRP’s unique approach to building capacity, which creates safe spaces of exchange and experience where the politics and practice of technology are informed by local, concrete and contextual realities of women.

Survivor stories

These stories were created especially for Take Back the Tech! as part of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, 25 November - 10 December, 2015. Some are in the words of survivors themselves, while others offer experiences working with victims/survivors. Find essays, poems, cartoons, videos, radio stories and more from around the world in English, French and Spanish. Watch, listen, read, appreciate, share. If you want to to tell your own story, please submit to our map of technology-related violence or email us a link to your story at ideas@takebackthetech.net.
These stories were created especially for Take Back the Tech! as part of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, 25 November - 10 December, 2015. Some are in the words of survivors themselves, while others offer experiences working with victims/survivors. Find essays, poems, cartoons, videos, radio stories and more from around the world in English, French and Spanish. Watch, listen, read, appreciate, share. If you want to to tell your own story, please submit to our map of technology-related violence or email us a link to your story at ideas@takebackthetech.net.