Sussex Digital Humanities Lab, Annual Keynote 2026
Towards liberation through knowledge and tech justice: the Whose Knowledge? story and practice
We will explore the journey of Whose Knowledge? over the last 10 years, as a Global Majority feminist collective at the intersections of knowledge and tech justice, resisting Big Knowledge and Big Tech and (re)imagining feminist and liberatory alternatives. Through this journey, we will share some of the messy human practices in trying to be what we want to see in the world!
Bareya (Barry) Khan works across civil society organisations, providing services to a range of collectives, movements and non-profit organisations, including Whose Knowledge and Healing Justice Ldn. Currently her time is spent supporting operational activities for decolonial and feminist interventions on tech and knowledge justice issues including Big Tech and AI, as well as community wealth/resource distribution, health and healing in the UK. Bareya has a history of working on border violence and migration-related issues across organisations, including the UNHCR, where she trained in protection and resettlement. She currently uses those skills to support the post-evacuation integration of medically-evacuated children from Gaza with Children Not Numbers.
Anasuya Sengupta is Executive Director and co-founder of Whose Knowledge?, a Global Majority feminist collective at the intersections of knowledge and tech justice, centring the multiple knowledges, histories, leadership and imaginations of the minoritised majority of the world, including on the internet. She has led initiatives across the global South, and internationally for over 25 years, to collectively create feminist presents and futures of love, justice, and liberation. She is committed to unpacking issues of power, privilege, and access, including her own as an anti-caste savarna (dominant caste) woman. She is a co-founder and advisor to Numun Fund (the first feminist tech fund for and from the Global South), the former Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and the former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women.