This episode is filled with tips and strategies from different feminists on how to create alternative infrastructures of care and embed affection into digital security trainings and most important, their lives, communities and movements. It challenges the notions of a one-size-fits-all prescriptive curriculum and/or training and invites activists to reflect on what safety and care means to them and their communities.

Our guests start by sharing stories from the in-person FTX in 2008, totally led by women and hosted in Cape Town, South Africa. That was the start to building a community around digital safety and care, leading to the embodiment of the FTX: Safety reboot (https://ftx.apc.org/), that is both a learning curriculum and a community of feminist digital security trainers that keeps growing. 

In this episode, we answer: Why Feminist Tech eXchanges? Directly from the mouths of the digital care trainers who were part of the beginnings of the FTX and their personal journeys with feminism and technology. Talking about why holding space with a feminist lens and intersectionality matter, specially while figuring out technology.

We start this podcast in the Huairou district in China, where the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) was part of a 40-women team who set up, in 1995, a communication center during the UN 4th World Conference on Women. Run by women volunteers, the “women’s tent” – as it’s remembered - connected the diverse women from the conference to the rest of the world, plenty of them discovering the internet for the first time! In this episode, we hear from incredible women who were there and left their mark on feminist technology to this day.