About Glitch

We work to ensure internet technologies do not replicate or extend discrimination to Black women and other marginalised people. 

We started our work squarely focused on online abuse, but our key area of focus is platform governance. Specifically, we work on individual harms such as tech-facilitated gender-based violence and intimate image abuse, and societal and collective harms such as AI governance; algorithmic injustice; and, content moderation.

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How we work

  • Our mission is for internet technologies to not replicate or extend discrimination to Black women and other marginalised people.

  • Glitch imagines world where internet technologies and the digital information ecosystem are ethical, equitable and just, for Black women and gender-expansive people. 

We do this via:

  • We think that applying a Black feminist analysis to issues in digital rights and tech policy illustrate how the intersection of race and gender result in reconstituted experiences online, as well as revealing the power and geopolitics shaping our digital worlds.

  • Working with coalitions to shape UK, US and EU tech policy to change or introduce regulation to uphold fundamental rights in the digital age.

  • Organising for movement building and resistance related to specific cultural, political, and social contexts and realities. 

  • We follow Christina Sharpe’s call to imagine otherwise: “to remake the world. [Because] some of us have never had any other choice”. We see this as a guiding term to go push for systemic change and reimagine the tech status quo.

Our POV

We centre Black women and gender-expansive people in our mission, vision and work. To do so we make use of Black feminist thought to illustrate how race and gender re-shape individual and collective experiences online and with emerging technologies.

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Advocacy

We research and campaign to influence governments and make meaningful systemic change to tech policy.

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We advance issues relating to the prevention of tech-facilitated harms, through the provision of workshops and other resources. 

Engagement

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Resistance

We aim to imagine otherwise* about the internet and social media, and we support ecosystem organising for movement building and resistance to various digital injustices.

Meet the Team

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    tèmítópé (tèmí) lasade-anderson

    Executive Director

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    Gabriela de Oliveira

    Head of Policy, Research and Campaigns

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    Sherlyn Assam

    Communications Manager