MariaLab is a Brazilian feminist nonprofit organization working at the intersection of gender, technology, and politics. We promote digital security and care from a feminist and intersectional perspective, advocating for human rights and against multiple inequalities based on gender, sexuality, race, and class
Our work is structured around three pillars – Prevention, Support and Autonomy – that address everything from risk reduction to incident response and protection plans. This framework allows us to apply a comprehensive approach to digital security and care.
MariaLab is a Brazilian feminist nonprofit organization working at the intersection of gender, technology, and politics. We promote digital security and care from a feminist and intersectional perspective, advocating for human rights and against multiple inequalities based on gender, sexuality, race, and class
Our work is structured around three pillars – Prevention, Support and Autonomy – that address everything from risk reduction to incident response and protection plans. This framework allows us to apply a comprehensive approach to digital security and care.
What we do
Prevention
We conduct risk assessments and produce digital security recommendation reports for small human rights organizations and collectives, provide consultancy for organizational protection plans, and offer training on digital security techniques and practices—from basic to advanced levels.
Prevention
We conduct risk assessments and produce digital security recommendation reports for small human rights organizations and collectives, provide consultancy for organizational protection plans, and offer training on digital security techniques and practices—from basic to advanced levels.
Support
We respond to incidents and provide emergency digital security assistance through Maria d’Ajuda, a feminist support and follow-up helpline. One of Maria d’Ajuda’s key contributions is combating technology facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), prioritizing support for women, the LGBTQIAPN+ community, and human rights organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Support
We respond to incidents and provide emergency digital security assistance through Maria d’Ajuda, a feminist support and follow-up helpline. One of Maria d’Ajuda’s key contributions is combating technology facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), prioritizing support for women, the LGBTQIAPN+ community, and human rights organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Autonomy
We build and maintain autonomous communication infrastructures through the Maria Vilani Project and the Vedetas Project. We provide online meeting platforms developed with free and open-source software, offering them free of charge to small organizations and collectives.
Autonomy
We build and maintain autonomous communication infrastructures through the Maria Vilani Project and the Vedetas Project. We provide online meeting platforms developed with free and open-source software, offering them free of charge to small organizations and collectives.
Library
Discover our key publications.Access articles, booklets, fanzines, videos, and a variety of other materials created through our projects and by partners.
Cuidados digitais e filantropia: achados e recomendações básicas
What Drives Us
MariaLab was born from the desire to make technology spaces more plural by involving women and gender-dissident people, fostering an intersectional discussion that considers race, class, sexuality, and gender identity in technology design.
Over time, we’ve come to understand that diversity and representation alone are not enough to transform our relationship with digital technologies or to ensure human rights as a fundamental aspect. Therefore, what we propose is the reappropriation and reconstruction of the ways we develop and interact with technological infrastructures.
We work to value digital care, bringing technology into feminist spaces and feminism into technology spaces.
MariaLab builds safe virtual and physical environments with social, ethnic, and economic dimensions, understanding that only through exchange and collective knowledge-building can true learning take place—among everyone.
MariaLab builds safe virtual and physical environments with social, ethnic, and economic dimensions, understanding that only through exchange and collective knowledge-building can true learning take place—among everyone.
2014
First in-person meeting at Casa de Lua: MariaLab is created as an online and itinerant feminist hackerspace.
2015
MariaLab wins the Mulheres Tech em Sampa award.
2016
Vedetas, our feminist server, begins its operations.
2017
Vedetas training meetings: Autonomous Networks and Secure Servers Lab.
2018
Inauguration of the MariaLab Space at Ateliê do Bixiga.
2018
Launch of Fuxico.
2019
MariaLab begins operating as a non-profit association.
2019
We opened our new home.
2020
Launch of the booklets "Autonomous Networks" and "Feminist Servers".
2020
Mini-course "Shaking up the Infrastructures: strengthening digital security for LGBTQIAPN+ communities and collectives".
2021
Launch of Maria Vilani.
2021
Creation of helpline Maria d’Ajuda.
2022
Start of activities of the Digital Threats Lab - TretaLab.
2023
Official launch of Maria d'Ajuda.
2023
MariaLab joins the organization of CryptoRave.
2024
MariaLab collaborates with the Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) project.
2024
MariaLab joins the Feminist Internet Research Network (FIRN) with the project "Feminist Digital Forensics: a proposal for study and development".
Support us
For over 10 years, MariaLab has worked to defend human rights and confront technology-facilitated violence by strengthening digital safety and care within civil society.
Every contribution is essential for maintaining our communication and support services and for the continuity of our fight to build a Feminist Internet.
You can make your donation [bank information].
If a monetary donation is not an option for you, contribute by spreading the word about our work. Our Library is full of materials prepared with great care!
For over 10 years, MariaLab has worked to defend human rights and confront technology-facilitated violence by strengthening digital safety and care within civil society.
Every contribution is essential for maintaining our communication and support services and for the continuity of our fight to build a Feminist Internet.
You can make your donation [bank information].
If a monetary donation is not an option for you, contribute by spreading the word about our work. Our Library is full of materials prepared with great care!
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