#  Patriarchal Technologies, Feminist Resistances: Lessons from Spain and Argentina 

 



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 **December 8, 2025** 

 10:30AM - 11:30AM EST 

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This talk explores how feminist actors in Spain and Argentina navigate and confront the resurgence of reactionary ideas in the digital public sphere. Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with feminist scholars, activists, and public figures, the research traces how participants make sense of digital violence, internal tensions within feminism, and the challenges of sustaining emancipatory praxis on platforms governed by corporate interests.

In Spain, institutional gains coexist with a resurgence of post-Francoist antifeminism. In Argentina, the cycle of mobilization culminating in abortion legalization has been followed by a forceful reaction under Javier Milei’s government. Across these settings, feminist actors develop strategies that range from individualized forms of online participation to collective practices that foreground care, solidarity, and resistance. The comparison highlights how the very sites where oppression is most acute often become the grounds for the most imaginative and insurgent alternatives to take shape.

By reading these experiences together, the talk proposes understanding feminisms as a counter-infrastructure: a discursive and material assemblage that challenges the market logics of digital capitalism and prefigures collective forms of resistance aimed at making the world livable in the face of intertwined capitalist, patriarchal, and colonial violences.

**Speaker**

**Anita Fuentes** is a “la Caixa” INPhINIT Doctoral Fellow at the *Institute of Feminist Research (INSTIFEM), Complutense University of Madrid*. She is currently a Visiting Student and Research Collaborator in the *Department of Anthropology at Princeton University*. Her work examines the intersections of online misogyny, digital feminism, and technological capitalism, with particular attention to the transnational dynamics of anti-feminist backlash and the forms of resistance that emerge in response.

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