Our journey
Ten years ago, a small and mighty group of feminists from Southeast Asia came together with a shared vision to take meaningful collective action and solidarity at a time when online gender-based violence (OGBV) was still at the periphery of human rights discourse—especially when the voices are from our region. The seed we planted grew organically over the years, nurtured by numerous conversations, scheming, and the imagination of an alternative world.
We believe that every woman and gender-diverse person is inherently empowered; they are, however, impacted by a profoundly unjust system entrenched in colonialism, patriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and racism. We know that there exists a plethora of expertise and knowledge within the Southeast Asia region, though often not properly acknowledged, documented, and funded.
In 2024, MataSEA was conceptualised. Beyond our ambition to build a feminist tech movement in Southeast Asia, MataSEA embodies our commitment to practising feminist leadership that mirrors the larger world and the feminist future that we want to build.
Our statement
Mata SEA is a transnational collective of activists and organisations from Southeast Asia committed to building a feminist tech movement that reflects intersectional and overlapping technological, social, political and cultural realities unique to SEA. The Collective focuses on dismantling the oppressive structures upheld by technology through radical imagination and bold action, and by centering care and joy as a political and essential agenda for the feminist tech movement.
Our vision
Our vision is for women and queer and gender diverse people to freely reimagine and reshape technology for a diverse community, grounded in our collective aspiration for care, joy and belonging.
Our mission
Our mission is to build and strengthen our collective power as a transnational feminist tech movement in Southeast Asia through radical imagination and bold action, and towards dismantling the oppressive structures upheld by technology. We recognise care as political and an essential agenda for the feminist tech movement.
Our team
Serene Lim
Malaysia
Co-schemer and coordinator
Dhyta Caturani
Indonesia
Co-schemer
Lainie Yeoh
Malaysia
Advisor
Lisa Garcia
Philippines
Co-schemer
Cheekay Cinco
Philippines
Advisor
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