Transfeminist Digital Care: A Holistic Approach for Tackling Online Gendered Violence

by Giulia Campaioli

Technology-facilitated gender-based violence increasingly targets women and genderand sexually nonconforming people, collapsing the boundaries between online and offline abuse. Transfeminist Digital Care traces this continuum across Brazil, Spain, and Italy, examining how online misogyny is embedded in broader systems of patriarchal violence, while also catalyzing new forms of resistance. From the aftermath of the assassination of Marielle Franco in Brazil and the emergence of the Transfeminist Digital Care Network, to feminist counter-organizing in Spain and mobilizations against feminicide and online misogyny in Italy, Campaioli maps transfeminist practices of care, knowledge production, and network building across interconnected online and offline spaces. Drawing on the Brazilian field of Digital Care, Campaioli proposes transfeminist digital care as a holistic approach for post-digital safety and joyous resistance.

Giulia Campaioli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Her interest in datafication shapes her work within the UvA research project DATAGOV, where she investigates how health data infrastructures reproduce inequalities in Brazil and Italy. She graduated in Clinical Psychology from the University of Padua and holds a dual PhD in Anthropology and Communication from Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, and in Collective Health from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her research practice draws on feminist multimodal ethnography, integrating photography and video documentary as tools for collaboration and storytelling.

Author: Giulia Campaioli

Editing: Violeta Assumpção, Rede Transfeminista de Cuidados Digitais

Copyediting and Proofreading: Mela Miekus

Book production and design: Anielek Niemyjski

Cover design: Katja van Stiphout

Published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2026

ISBN: 9789083672182

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This publication was supported by the Global Digital Cultures initiative, University of Amsterdam, and the Institute of Network Cultures.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 945413 and from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Disclaimer: This work reflects only the author’s view and the Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

This work is supported by ERC grant DATAGOV, Grant No. 101142006. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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