June 12th 2026 | Workshop

Led by Kirthi Jayakumar

Venue: Drift 23, room 0.12

This workshop is designed for PhD scholars, RMA students, and early-career researchers working on, or interested in, gender and feminist approaches to AI, platforms, infrastructures, and tools. Moving beyond dominant narratives that frame women and non-binary people primarily as victims of technological harm, the session centers feminist approaches as generative, future-building frameworks for designing, governing, and engaging with AI systems. Drawing on the collective wisdom of feminist movements, networked feminisms, and women’s collectives across time and space, the workshop explores what it means to place gender and feminism at the heart of AI as it emerges—rather than treating them as an add-and-stir afterthought. 

Participants will engage with multiple feminisms and core feminist principles such as intersectionality, care, accountability, and collective power, and examine how these principles can inform the full stack of digital infrastructures underpinning platforms and AI technologies. Through collective reflection and applied discussion, participants will also gain rare, practice-based guidance and insights from feminist practitioners who have translated these ideas into real-world platforms, survivor-centered technologies, and community-driven AI initiatives, offering concrete pathways for making feminist AI actionable in research, design, and governance.

Goal: Participants will leave with concrete feminist frameworks, principles, and strategies they can apply directly in their research, design, and engagement with AI systems.

Respondents:

Jensine Larsen, founder of World Pulse and Unfurl Futures (USA)

Eva Blum-Dumontet, Movement Building and Policy at Chayn (UK)

Dr. Rébecca Franco, Research fellow, Utrecht University 

Moderated by Dr. Guanqin He, AI & Work Researcher, Inclusive AI Lab; Postdoctoral Researcher, Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland)