Technology Turns Toxic: AI, Abuse & The Realities of the Black Femme Experience in the Digital Age (HERSANA))
Friday 28 November 2025
10:00 to 11:30
As technology becomes ever more woven into our daily lives, so too do the ways it can be used to harm, monitor, and silence.
This 90-minute, entry-level workshop explores how tech abuse and emerging AI tools are reshaping the landscape of gender-based violence, particularly for Black femmes. Through an intersectional lens, participants will unpack how power, bias, and digital control intersect in the lives of survivors, and learn how to identify, prevent, and respond to tech-facilitated abuse.
This workshop is a conversation-starter aiming to bring it to the table for discussion, understanding, share strategies for digital safety, and imagine pathways toward technological justice and survivor-led care.
- Understand what “tech abuse” and “AI-enabled abuse” mean, and how they fit into wider patterns of domestic and gender-based violence.
- Recognise the specific ways technology can be weaponized against Black femmes — from tracking and surveillance to online harassment, deepfakes, and algorithmic bias.
- Explore how digital systems reinforce, expand on, shape and (re)build abuse for Black survivors.
- Identify warning signs, risk factors, and digital safety strategies for survivors and advocates.
- Reflect on the intersections of race, gender, and technology in shaping power and vulnerability online.
- Bystander Intervention in the digital world.
MS Teams meeting
Meeting ID: 381 078 988 502 5
Passcode: bq6mH6dv
Email: info@hersana.org
| Contact |
HERSANA info@hersana.org 0333 016 9610 |
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| Location |
Online |