Laurence Meyer
Laurence is a jurist and the co-director of Weaving Liberation
Laurence Meyer has a master in european comparative public law from La Sorbonne university (Paris). She is a jurist and is the co-director of Weaving Liberation- an entity hosted at Digital Freedom Fund dedicated to supporting work in Europe at the intersection of racial, social, transfeminist, economic, environmental and digital justice. She co-led the “Decolonising the digital rights field” process, jointly with EDRi and leads the “Digital Rights for All” initiative She is part of the magazine AssiégéEs, and co-founder of the Ẅ XOOL (wou Rol) film festival programming Afro-descendant women and non-binary filmmakers in France. Laurence works on issues of digital rights and the notion of race in law and has written articles on these topics for French and German newspapers. She speaks French, English and German and is based in Berlin
Decolonisation
How can we think land, liberation and technology together? Exploring the colonial dimensions of digital technologies- I will also try and propose anti-colonial pathways to thinking liberatory digital futures.