Feminist Server Initiatives

Anarchaserver

is a feminist server that was installed in 2014 during the first TransHackFeminist (THF!) convergence, that took place in Calafou. ( Calafou is a network of cooperatives, individual projects and housing in a collectivised area, in Catalonia. )

=Anarchaserver= hosts a wiki for the documentation of the THF! and a feminist blogging platform (Anarchaserver, n.d.).
THF! describes that the need for feminist servers is a response to:

"The unethical practices of multinational ICT companies acting as moral and hypocrite censors; gender based online violence in the form of trolling and hateful machoists harassing feminist or women activists online and offline; the centralization of the internet and its transformation into a consumption sanctuary and a space of surveillance, control and tracking of dissent voices by government agencies among others" (THF! Convergence Report, Calafou, 2014).

Systerserver

is a project launched by the GenderChangers and the /ETC. It is a feminist server, run and maintained by women, that acts as a place to learn administration skills, while it also hosts online services. (SysterServer, n.d.)

A feminist server, such as the Systerserver, is a concept that combines the interest for technical autonomy with feminist urgencies. It is an ongoing effort emerging from the need to ensure that works, publications, data and memories of feminist communities are properly accessible and managed.

Feminist hacker initiatives are working to provide technical literacy and means to ensure that mailing lists, pads, wikis, content management systems, social networks and other feminist online services are preserved and protected.