Digital Women UK

Digital Women UK is a new initiative to facilitate female creative practitioners to fully engage with social media to showcase their work.

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@edintfest celebrates 70 years with digital spectacle, #Bloom! Edinburgh International Festival is an unparalleled celebration of the performing arts, and has become an annual meeting place for peoples of all nations. For three weeks every August, the International Festival welcomes some of the finest performers and ensembles from the worlds of dance, opera, music and theatre to Scotland's historic capital. 70 years after the founding of #EdintFest, Edinburgh has bloomed magnificently as the world’s Festival City, and its impact has pollinated cities across the globe, propagating new festivals throughout Europe, America and Asia. To celebrate 70 years of international creativity, collaboration and unity, #EdinburghInternationalFestival will open with #Bloom - an epic outdoor spectacle transforming St Andrew Square into a magical night garden through light and sound installations and large-scale projection. Stroll around the Square as the buildings burst into life – immersing you in a fast moving world of colour, texture and sound. #Bloom is produced by the multi-award winning @59_productions, the design team behind the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games, the David Bowie Is exhibition, and @edintfest's previous opening events, the critically acclaimed #TheHarmoniumProject and #Deep Time. #Bloom takes place on two nights, Fri 4th & Sat 5th July. Free event tickets will be released at 10am on Mon 3rd July. Event and Ticket Information: https://www.eif.co.uk/2017 https://www.eif.co.uk/bloom/enjoying-the-event https://www.facebook.com/events/177187859454188/ #EdintFest70 #EdinBloom #59productions #Bloom #TheHarmoniumProject #DeepTime #EdintFest #digitalinstallation #edinburgh

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'Geek Girls' world première this Sun 11th June @sheffdocfest!! 'Geek girls reveals the hidden half of nerd culture; a world of cute dresses, professional gamers, fake names and death threats.' This is the first ever feature length documentary film about 'geeky' women, addressing the oversight of mainstream nerd culture towards the women who live and work within it on a daily basis. Filmmaker and director Gina Hara delves into the world of 11 women, including: professional gamer Stephanie Harvey, NASA rocket scientist, Dr. Anita Sengupta,  and founder of Black Girl Nerds, Jamie Broadnax! The screening of Geek Girls will be followed by a Q&A with director Gina Hara, producer Michael Massicotte and participant "Alice", who will be available for interviews at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Where: Sheffield Doc/Fest, The Light Cinema 9 When: Sunday 11th June 12pm (noon) Tickets: https://sheffdocfest.com/films/6177 "Geek Girls is a documentary about not just lady geeks, but also about how they are seen, what context they exist in, and - most importantly - how the making of the film helped me to explore my own identity." -- Gina Hara Unleash your inner geek! #geekgirl #geekgirls #ginahara #jamiebroadnax #blackgirlnerds #girlsingeekculture #sheffdocfest #anitasengupta #girlgamers

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We cannot afford to ignore women’s digital activities any longer. Although we are under-represented as founders of high-tech businesses, women digital entrepreneurs are a formidable force. They are shaping culture (both online and offline), and changing industries forever: health and wellness, beauty and fashion, parenting initiatives – even non-stereotypically feminine sectors such as gaming – are all undergoing the radical innovation introduced by women digital pioneers.

Dr. Angela Martinez Dy reflects on the year since the last Missing in Action: Women and Digital Enterprise in the UK Conference. 

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Leslie’s ‘case’ also painfully encapsulates why the #blacklivesmatter hashtag and movement are essential and relevant. There is a real battle being fought online and IRL. A battle that is relevant to every living soul as part of the growing continuum of racism, bigotry, discrimination, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and Islamophobia.

Joy Francis calls for a legal class action on Twitter

Click here to read the full article on why #LeslieJonesMatters

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Leslie, who was left riding solo to deal with this racially-motivated warzone, had to personally reach out to Twitter – more than once – to tackle the problem. “I didn’t do anything to deserve this. It’s just too much. It shouldn’t be like this. So hurt right now”.

Joy Francis on why Leslie Jones Matters and the need for a legal class action

Read the full article here 

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I gave up social media for Lent once. It didn’t go well.  Like most people born in the 1980s, I use digital as a window to view the world and as a chance to reflect what I want the world to see.

Bec Burnett for Digital Women UK

Read her full article here

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The process has been a stop/start experience. I am still developing and hope to work with more creative industry professionals. I work with my husband’s company as an online customer service provider to help people understand how to use software and computers, mostly by email. At the same time, I have my own business working with artists in the UK and Canada, helping to develop their web presence, putting together websites, or contributing to social media and crowdfunding campaigns.

Marva Jackson Lord talks about her digital journey to Digital Women UK 

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They used that to dismiss what I was saying. People would say “Oh, it’s only her. No other woman feels that way. Every other Muslim woman who wears a scarf is oppressed. It’s only Hanna Yusuf who finds it liberating. She can’t speak for everyone else, so we must continue to speak for them”. I think that’s where the blind spot plays a role because there aren’t many women in the mainstream media who are visibly or even openly Muslim.

Hanna Yusuf speaking to Digital Women UK about The Blind Spot in the media. 

Read the full interview here

Watch Hanna’s video for The Guardian about the hijab here

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One of Canada’s first black guerrilla marketers, Marva Jackson Lord, explains her transition from fax and phone to web development in Wales.

Marva Jackson Lord is a Jamaican-Canadian writer based in Wales. She is the founder of Griots Productions and Griots Arts, a creative media consulting and arts admin digital service. When social media was in its infancy, and traditional media outlets derided the birth of what was then called new media, Marva was one of Canada’s first guerrilla marketers working with digital media pioneers, nuNet. She hosts and produces Griots Poetry, a monthly poetry reading and performance evening in Hay-on-Wye. 

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Digital media takes the power away from the leading newspapers and the leading websites. Long gone are the days where you needed to rely on newspapers to distribute your information.

Hanna Yusuf speaking to Digital Women UK

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As part of our ongoing series examining the media’s “blind spot” towards gender, faith and class, we ask Hanna Yusuf, writer and freelance journalist, about the media’s attitudes towards women and the role digital media could play in ensuring that more diverse voices are heard.

Journalist Hanna Yusuf on how wearing a scarf while commentating on The Guardian online attracted negative feedback on her credibility and power.

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Training – Connecting – Campaigning

The wonderful team at Digital Women UK invited me to write about “my digital journey” - how I use tech and the digital space in my work as a poet and creative artist. Thrilled to be featured!

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We love Toni’s work and use of digital technology in her live performances. She is now exploring how it can be used to extend an audience’s engagement beyond an initial live experience. Follow the link for her full article!

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Watch our candid interview with the president of ‪techUK

Jacqueline de Rojas, president of techUK and area vice president (Northern Europe) at Citrix gave Digital Women UK an exclusive interview for our ‪#‎missinginaction15‬ event.

She eloquently spoke about how she fell into tech, some of the pitfalls women face, how fewer numbers appear to be entering the sector and what needs to be done about it.

See for yourself.

Filmed by Adrianne McKenzie for Digital Women UK.

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From speaking with academics, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts on the day, it became clear that the experiences of digital are arguably less negatively-gendered than we see in the mainstream media: (one which seems to want you to believe that women don’t like to code or need a man to fix their computers).  The reality is that the experiences of women are more often framed by social class, ethnic background, geography and education, and are all interlinked.

Josephine Goube, co-managing director of Girls in Tech, after Missing in Action: Women and Digital Enterprise in the UK

Read the full article at digitalwomenuk.co.uk

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The trend is here: more women are entering the digital enterprise arena and tech economy space. But what is their experience of it?

Josephine Goube, co-managing director of Girls in Tech, looks to the future for women in technology, following Digital Women UK and Angela Dy’s event Missing in Action: Women and Digital Enterprise in the UK

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Missing in Action: Women and Digital Enterprise in the UK (with images, tweets) · DigitalWomenUK

On 21 to 22 November 2015, Digital Women UK with Dr Angela Martinez Dy hosted a 'thought space' for female creative digital entrepreneurs, digital academics and startups to plan and develop strategies with tech experts such as Josephine Goube (Girls in Tech) and Anne-Marie Imafidon (Stemettes).

Get a round up of speakers and workshops at last weekend’s Missing in Action event.

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Why you should attend #missinginaction15 in 5 hashtags

On Saturday 21 to Sunday 22 November, Digital Women UK is hosting a special event on women and digital enterprise with amazing speakers such as Anne-Marie Imafidon (Stemettes project), Josephine Goube (Girls in Tech) and Natalie Lue (Baggage Reclaim), among many others. 

We have an exclusively filmed interview with the dynamic Jacqueline de Rojas, president of techUK. There will be coaching for startups courtesy of Lyndsey Britton (Campus North/Ignite100) and mindfulness coaching with Tamsin Bishton. 

Expert panels featuring digital academics and creative entrepreneurs will answer your queries (big and small), and there will be encouraging space to share ideas and plan for your aspirations. And all for just £25. Come for one day or come on both days.

Find out more, including how to book, here: www.digitalwomenuk.co.uk/digital-women-uk-to-tackle-gender-and-digital-entrepreneurship/