TOR Columnist
Terms of Reference for Columnists
Background:
GenderIT.org provides a space for reflection, influence and advocacy on internet policy and culture, to help ensure that they meet needs of women, gender non-conforming people, queers, and others and do not infringe on their rights. The site maps the intersections between women’s and sexual rights issues and internet rights issues, and concentrates on bringing voices from the global South into the discussion of these issues, since the discussion is often dominated by voices from the North. Topics of interest are online gender based violence, labour rights, diversity in science and tech, cyberfeminism and transfeminism, gaming, freedom of expression for all, policy and legal changes across the world. GenderIT is an affirming space that seeks not to appropriate voices, but to provide people with a platform to write on issues related to technology, gender and sexuality that are of interest to them.
In pursuance of these ideals, GenderIT supports columnists to write for a period of 5 months on the genderIT platform. Columnists are expected to cover issues related to gender, technology, sexuality and other multiple axis of discrimination and exclusion across the world. The column is a space for the writer's own opinions and for them to explore their ideas with the regular audience of GenderIT, consisting of activists, policy advocates and makers, lawyers, writers, feminists and others.
Objectives, Issues and Methodology:
The columnist will communicate with the respective language editor for GenderIT, either the English language editor or the Spanish language editor.
The columnist is expected to submit one column per month on a fixed day of the month, as agreed upon with the respective editor. This is for a period of 5 months.
The five columns should work together as a series and also independently as an exploration of the main themes agreed upon with the editor.
To know more about how to write for GenderIT, please also refer to Our code of ethics, the GenderIT.org manifesto, and How to write for GenderIT.org
The columnist will be paid 100$ per column or a total of 500$ for 5 columns over a period of 5 to 6 months. The timings of payment will be as agreed upon between the columnist and editor, depending on convenience. It can be after 2 columns are submitted at the midway point, or a full transfer at the midway point or at the end.
On the submission of the second column, the columnist will also get feedback from the editor. The columns are an open, exploratory and independent space for the columnist, and the nature of the feedback will be in terms of readability and outreach. The editor can also share analytics on the articles (number of reads, retweets etc.) with the columnist.
The timely submission of articles on a monthly basis is of utmost importance to ensure the freshness of the ideas and continuity for the readers. If however this is not possible, the columnist must communicate this promptly to the respective editor.