advocacy
The data continues to misrepresent the realities of transgender persons, reiterating the existing confusion about transgender individuals.
What we lack are digital spaces and infrastructures that are informed by the needs of their end users, that prioritise safety, comfort, joy and care.
The connection between mental and emotional wellbeing and stigmatised identities is perhaps most easily understood and therefore a good entry…
Apart from systematic exclusions faced by individuals, evidently the mandatory use of a biometric-based digital ID has also reshaped the understanding of an individual’s agency and right to bodily autonomy. Gender and sexuality seem to no longer be matters of an individual’s right to privacy. With digitisation, disclosure of one’s gender and sexuality has become a hindrance to accessing one’s rights.