Numun Fund

In this What Is This Hot Mess? episode Tiffany Kagure Mugo sits down with Jac sm Kee to chat about feminist tech and Silicon Valley Syndrome, the scam that is an ‘equal internet’ and why conversations about A.I need to be about more than shouting ‘my toaster is getting smart with me.’ It’s all about building the internet that we all want to be on, but its going to take a little while to get there, we just need to give the feminist girlies their coins.

https://numun.fund/podcast-a-mess-of-a-i-mania-funding-feminist-tech-and-silicon-valley-scams-with-jac-sm-kee/

We are excited to share that we are starting a new project in partnership with the EngineRoom to map organizations and community responses addressing technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), specifically intimate partner violence (IPV) affecting girls, young women and LGBTIQ+ activists in the Majority World. Help Us Map Responses to Tech-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence Affecting Young Women and LGBTIQ+ Activists

https://www.theengineroom.org/help-us-map-responses-to-tech-facilitated-intimate-partner-violence-affecting-young-women-and-lgbtiq-activists/

Solidarity infrastructures – what do we leave behind when the grant ends? Reflecting on our session at EDGE.

This post was first published in Alliance Magazine on 28 May 2025, written by Laurence Meyer, Nino Ugrekhelidze, Salmana Ahmed, élysse marcellin and Cassie Denbow.

https://numun.fund/what-do-we-leave-behind-when-the-grant-ends-reflecting-on-our-session-at-edge/

If feminist philanthropy wants to build a better world, it needs to move online — check out conversations with Tesmerelna Atsbeha, Amy Bisno, jac sm kee and Jan Moolman, available from Alliance Magazine

https://www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/if-feminist-philanthropy-wants-to-build-a-better-world-it-needs-to-move-online/

Sorry that it’s paywalled, so if you’d like a copy of it, please DM us.

Collective resilience is crucial in challenging times like ours, yet it’s rarely nurtured. How can we build this capacity together?

“I believe in the power of us taking care of each other.”

Imagine if, instead of being encouraged to go off and take your rest when you’re feeling burnt out, you could rest with your community.

https://numun.fund/i-believe-in-the-power-of-us-taking-care-of-each-other-in-conversation-with-mitzi-jonelle-tan-jac-sm-kee-and-theo-sowa/

The internet was meant to be a tool for freedom. But for many women, queer people, and gender-diverse people, it has at times become a space of surveillance, abuse, and harassment. At the same time, feminists around the world have used digital tools to organize and reimagine new futures. This tension between harm and hope is at the heart of the feminist tech movement.

https://www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-stories/stories/the-internet-was-supposed-to-set-us-free-feminists-are-fighting-to-make-sure-it-still-does/

This year through the Safety Showcase flagship open call we were able to engage in meaningful conversations with groups and organisations developing tech solutions to counter TFGBV by design.

Tomorrow in the context of #CSW69 we will be able to learn from 7 initiatives that put women and girls in all their diversity at the centre of design.

Join the inaugural Safety Showcase in person or online. You can register at bit.ly/SafetyShowcase25