Cover of the report, with a light pink background intersected by salmon colored blocks, showing the texts: "Outras vozes" in the upper center, "Gênero, Raça, Classe e Sexualidade nas Eleições de 2016" in the central part on the right, InternetLab logo on bottom left and authors' names "Natália Neris" and "Mariana Valente" and the year "2017" at the bottom left.

InternetLab releases “#OtherVoices: gender, race, class and sexuality in the 2016 elections” report

News Inequalities and Identities 03.03.2017 por Natália Neris and Mariana Valente

In electoral periods, the political engagement on the social networks is intensified — they become the stage for campaigns, debates between citizens, and between voters and candidates. We have seen for some years that, in this context, topics related to social markers of difference come to the surface with more strength; however, when we try to return to which debates and controversies happened in each of these moments, we find great difficulty. Without any organized register, they get lost in infinite feeds, in the deletion of pages and profiles, or in the decision for shutting down sites and social networks.

It was for this reason that, during August and September 2016, period of municipal electoral campaigns in Brazil, our “Internet and Gender, Race and Other Social Markers” team followed profiles of Human Rights Activists with the aim of weekly monitoring and registering discussions about gender, race, sexuality, regional origin and social class, and their relation to politics and Internet.

To contribute to the construction of a digital memory of this period, we published the report #OtherVoices: gender, race, class and sexuality in the 2016 elections, systematizing what we reported on the Internet, Voices and Votes bulletins.

The report was released in the event “What is the Internet’s role in Brazilian politics?”. See the report here (in Portuguese):

Cover of the report, with a light pink background intersected by salmon colored blocks, showing the texts: "Outras vozes" in the upper center, "Gênero, Raça, Classe e Sexualidade nas Eleições de 2016" in the central part on the right, InternetLab logo on bottom left and authors' names "Natália Neris" and "Mariana Valente" and the year "2017" at the bottom left.

The debate of the report happened in the panel “Acting challenges: activism and (in)visibility on the Internet“, with the participation of Natália Neris (InternetLab and one of the authors of the report), Tatiana Dias (Journalist), Pablo Ortellado (EACH-USP) and Larissa Santiago (Blogueiras Negras). Check out the discussion here.

By Natália Neris e Mariana Valente

Translation: Ana Luiza Araujo

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