Feminist Information Infrastructure Workshop with Blank Noise and Sangama
Akriti Bopanna, Swaraj Paul Barooah and Ambika Tandon as part of the project on Feminist Information Infrastructure, conducted a full-day workshop with Sangama and Blank Noise on August 8, 2018 at CIS, Bangalore.
The workshop focused around fleshing out the research projects that interns at Blank Noise and Sangama will be undertaking, and going over ethical guidelines for feminist research for interviews.
There will be three projects across the two organizations, looking at
- The identification process and challenges therein for the trans community,
- The impact of mobile phone usage on sex work, and
- Impact of social media on the lives of sexual minorities (specifically gay men), focusing on pleasure, social interaction, safety, and peerveillance.