Gender Matters: Pinar Tuzcu

Developing a decolonial digital feminist approach to access, Dr. Pinar Tuzcu examines the paradoxes of digital inclusion and participation within contemporary forms of technological life. While global agendas celebrate internet access as a human right and a path to equality, these narratives reproduce a patriarchal–colonial relation in which the Global South and women appear as those “left behind,” awaiting technological salvation. Tuzcu argues that such advocacy turns access into a site of gendered racial-capitalist repetition, where visibility and voice are entangled with surveillance, data extraction, labour exploitation, and epistemic dispossession. The talk invites audiences to rethink what it means to claim a right to (dis)connect, framing connection and refusal alike as anti-colonial feminist acts of resistance and care in the digital condition.

Dr. Pinar Tuzcu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, specializing in digital justice, cybercolonialism, and critical migration studies. Born in Turkey, she spent over a decade in Germany, where she completed her PhD and held multiple research and teaching positions in different universities before joining Queen’s. Her research and publications explore the intersections of power, marginalization, and resistance from an anti-colonial feminist perspective, with recent work focusing on the colonial dynamics embedded in digital infrastructures.

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