Join Equality Now and Sourcebooks for an urgent conversation about our digital future.
Date: Tuesday September 9, 2025
Time: Noon EST/16:00 UTC
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As artificial intelligence reshapes our world, women, girls and marginalized communities face unprecedented threats. From AI-driven discrimination to deepfake sexual abuse, emerging technologies are weaponizing gender-based violence on a global scale.
In her latest book The New Age of Sexism, Laura Bates explores this worrying trend. This livestreamed brings together experts in digital rights, AI and gender to explore the themes of this book and discuss solutions and legal reform to ensure a more equitable digital future.
Panelists:
- Laura Bates
Laura Bates is an activist, writer, speaker and journalist. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality and author of The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny.
- Joy Buolamwini
Joy Buolamwini is a “poet of code” who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League to create a world with more equitable and accountable technology. - Amanda Manyame
Amanda Manyame is Equality Now’s Digital Law and Rights Advisor, working with Equality Now and the Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi) at the intersection of tech and law, advising governments, intergovernmental organisations, regulators, and tech companies on the considerations that influence tech policy and digital rights. - Moderator: Mona Sinha
Mona Sinha is the Global Executive Director of Equality Now.
