VisibleWikiWomen 2024

2024 marks the 7th year and edition of the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign. For the past six years, we’ve brought together a collective of partners and friends worldwide to make images of womxn, especially black, brown, indigenous, and trans, and non-binary individuals, available on Wikipedia and the broader internet.

Theme of the year: Our Resistance is Plural[edit]

2023 was such an incredible year for the campaign as we set out to celebrate the plurality of our bodies with our theme #BodyPlurality #CuerposPlurales #CorposPlurais #Imizimba: Celebrating the uniqueness of our body sizes, shapes, and identities online.” Collectively, we surpassed our goal and brought over 3000+ images to Wikimedia Commons of bodies of all sizes, colors, and shapes; bodies that occupy workspaces, sports arenas, stages, and streets with the glorious plurality we want to see online and on wiki.

We are still unpacking what #BodyPlurality is for us and our friends, partners, and allies for whom we do this work of challenging the “standards of beauty” and whose bodies are deemed acceptable, celebrated, and visibilized. The spirit of feminist body politics and all our learnings continue to inspire us and remain at the heart of #VisibleWikiWomen.

2024 also bears a heavy burden of collective rage and grief as the masters’ tools continue to be weaponized against our bodies, our communities, and our lands. The #VisibleWikiWomen campaign this year reiterates that all of our struggles are interconnected, and our resistance is plural, as the extraordinary feminist human rights and land defender Berta Cáceres said. Guided by Audre Lorde’s teaching that we do not live single-issue lives, from Sudan to Palestine, from reproductive justice to knowledge justice to climate justice, the 2024 campaign will highlight images and stories of the work of our collective liberation:

Peace thinkers and builders, like Margo Okazawa-Rey and Gwyn Kirk, who were key to framing a "Feminist Vision of Genuine Security".
Madres y Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, the famous Argentinian human rights activists whose peaceful protest is a worldwide icon of popular struggle for truth, justice and memory.
The continuous waves of street protesters against gender violence, mobilizing from Argentina under the hashtag #NiUnaMenos to Kenya, with #StopKillingWomen and #StopFGMInGambia in The Gambia.
The tireless seekers of justice for black women like Marielle Franco, indigenous women and land defenders like Berta Cáceres, and trans activists like Alejandra Ironici, and many others whose lives continue to amplify our multiple struggles.
LGBTQ+ people and activists in Uganda, Ghana, and everywhere homophobic legislation and far-right regression of human rights are taking root.
Queer and Trans Dalit scholars, journalists and activists who continue to topple caste hierarchies, binaries and normativities to make way for hope, joy and love.
The feminists and women in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Western Sahara, and beyond, who are organizing in the face of genocide and war, showing us feminist resistance, liberation, hope, and solidarity in practice.

We are in a context where violence, conflict, and war have developed the worst face of a pedagogy of cruelty, exacerbated by technology, mainstream media, and digital spaces beholden to capitalist and racist agendas. Wherever womxn are, they are disproportionately affected by conflict and violence. But womxn are also relentlessly organizing in solidarity and resistance against systems of oppression — colonialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, racism, casteism, homophobia, transphobia, capitalism, the military-industrial complex, and more. We must recognize where we are in history and contribute to feminist efforts everywhere to document our rage, celebrate our full humanity, and highlight stories and images of feminist resistance, liberations, solidarity, and peace. With our 2024 theme: Our Resistance is Plural: Feminist solidarity, liberation, and peace, we invite our partners, allies, friends, and comrades in the revolution for our collective freedom to the 2024 #VisibleWikiWomxn campaign:

To invoke and create our feminist memory and bear witness to the possibilities of radical solidarity and justice,
To acknowledge the gendered impacts of war and conflict, making the work of womxn peacebuilders and human rights defenders visible through images that represent power, strength, respect, dignity, protest, and solidarity,
To celebrate the plural ways feminists connect multiple struggles for liberation in response to intersecting forms of systemic oppression. Because nobody is free until everybody’s free.

Our goal for 2024[edit]

Our goal for this 7th edition of #VisibleWikiWomen is to bring other 3000 images of women and non-binary individuals to Wikimedia Commons, the big multimedia library for all Wikimedia projects, including the +300 language versions of Wikipedia.

Once again, we will be focusing on increasing the number of images of influential Black, Brown, Indigenous, Trans women and Non-Binary people that are being uploaded to Wikipedia as part of the #VisibleWikiWomxn campaign.

To reach this goal, we invite you – women’s and feminist organizations, culture and memory institutions, Wikipedia editors, user groups, chapters, and anyone who would like to give the plurality of women and non-binary people the visibility and acknowledgement they deserve. We are excited to collaborate with previous year’s friends, allies, and co-conspirators again and to welcome new partners from around the world.

How to participate[edit]

Join us! Click on Register at the top of this page. You'll get periodical updates about the campaign activities and progress, invitations to challenges, learning resources and capacity building opportunities.

You can join the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign all year long, by gathering and uploading quality images in the public domain, or under free license, to Wikimedia Commons under the VisibleWikiWomen category. These images can be photographs or drawings of women, as well as images of their work, with proper consent.

Besides uploading images to Commons, you can also participate in the campaign by:

Hosting or attending local events in your communities where photos can be taken or uploaded
Releasing your existing photos of women and non binary people under free licenses
Creating illustrations and drawings
Promoting and publicizing this project by spreading the word about it and using the hashtags #VisibleWikiWomen, #VisibleWikiWomxn,#LuchasMultiples #OurPluralResistance#WomenofColors, #on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Co-organizing and hosting an online event with Whose Knowledge? to bring the campaign to your local communities
Creating a feminist corner at your public events, by installing a #VisibleWikiWomen photobooth.

And probably so much more! We’d love to see you come up with new ideas that make sense for you and your communities.

If you need extra support for participating in the campaign, please email us at visiblewikiwomen[at]whoseknowledge[dot]org.