Background
Joshefin is a journalist, feminist, and trans activist covering issues of gender, diversity, and gender based violence. Through her work, Joshefin promotes sexual and reproductive rights. Joshefin is the Community Manager of a feminist journal. She and other members of her community have organized trainings for journalists on reporting with a gender perspective. She is also alert about cases of femicide to give support to the families, also to trans people who are discriminated against.
Technology use
She uses different social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram,Telegram, and Twitter to share her work, She has a space/site dedicated to sharing her reports.
She worries about her communications being tapped, especially when working on sensitive topics, and implements some digital safety measures. She uses a VPN sometimes and uses Signal to communicate.
Goals
Share information with a gender and diversity focus.
Denounce threats against the diverse community and women.
Promote communication with a gender perspective.
Threats
Troll attacks on shared content.
Attempted hacking of Web pages, mail and social media accounts.
Phishing attempts.
Reporting of published content to be removed.
Strengths
She is aware of the need for digital security measures.
She implements certain tools to protect her digital security.
She implements strong passwords and uses two-factor authentication for her social media accounts.
Questions
How do I protect my mobile device?
How do I deal with troll attacks?
How do I protect myself from attacks to my accounts?