About Glitch

We’re a Black-led and Black feminist charity, working to ensure internet technologies do not replicate or extend discrimination to Black women and other marginalised people.

Our advocacy encompasses research, policy influencing and campaigning on tech-facilitated gender-based violence, algorithmic discrimination, platform governance and other technology-related harms impacting race and gender injustice. We advocate on behalf of those excluded and ignored.

Read our strategy to learn more.

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How we work

  • Our mission is to ensure that internet technologies in the information ecosystem do not replicate or further discrimination to Black women and other marginalised people. 

  • We imagine a world where internet technologies and the information ecosystem are ethical, equitable and just — for Black women and Black gender-expansive people.

We do this via:

  • We know that applying a Black feminist analysis to issues in digital rights and tech policy illustrates how the intersection of race and gender results in reconstituted experiences online, as well as revealing the power and geopolitics shaping our digital worlds. Black feminism(s) is the theoretical underpinning for all of our work - including organisational strategy and culture.

  • Traditional and mainstream policy work does not often include the experiences our focal population have in the online information environment. However we also understand that policy and regulatory levers can be useful tactics towards (sometimes reformist) systemic change. Our policy work builds on existing and new research and lived experience of tech-facilitated harms. We work with coalitions to shape UK, US and EU tech policy to change or introduce regulations to uphold human rights in the digital age.

  • We want to go far, so we work with others. Our ecosystem work supports organising tactics for movement building related to the intersection of platform governance and democracy, climate injustice, racial, migrant and gender justice, and beyond. These issues faced in these arenas are also impacted by emerging technologies and shape individual and collective harms, as well as resistance approaches.

    We will re-launch our programmes in 2026.

  • 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 radical approach —importantly grounded in Black feminist thought— to consider alternative ways of being with technology. Our vision is one of imagination, and to do that we need to practice and strengthen this muscle. What would it look like for internet technologies to uphold human rights, be ethical and just, and be used for community, connection and equity?

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 analyse, research and campaign to influence governments and make meaningful systemic changes 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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Organise

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.