QueerRights Community

If you’re looking for information about our political intervention at the Mozilla Festival 2025, it’s here.

QueerRights is a global community of LGBTQIA+ activists that works at the intersection of technology and human rights. Beyond online organizing, it takes part in conferences to bring the perspectives of LGBTQIA+ people, help secure this community’s rights, and raise the level of public debate. It operates with structure, method, and care protocols that guide work both on stage and behind the scenes. It produces shareable learnings, giving practical grounding to discussions that are often kept at a purely abstract level.

The group was born at RightsCon Costa Rica (2023). It started as a Signal group created by Dia Kayyali and inspired by the work of Marianne Díaz Hernández to foster community in the digital rights space, but it has since grown into something more – powered by the community itself – and continues to grow, coming together again at RightsCon Taiwan (2025), the Global Gathering in Portugal (2025), and the Mozilla Festival (2025).

Each gathering expands the transnational network and refines practices of participation, listening, and accountability. The community tests strategies in different cultural contexts and documents what works. From this cycle, a replicable repertoire emerges for allies in other conferences.

On stage and in the hallways, QueerRights presents, debates, and intervenes. It brings anti-colonialism, gender studies, queer epistemologies, and (trans)feminisms to the center of discussions on Big Tech, AI, digital platforms, and governance. It connects critical theory to practical procedures: language checklists, panel facilitation, moderation, and incident-response protocols, always with a focus on changing practice, not just issuing statements.

At the 2025 Mozilla Festival, the community operated as a live case study. Rapid coordination, speaking out, and dialogue with the organizers turned an episode of exclusion into a public commitment to adjust internal processes and support collective healing. The action combined mutual support, naming the harm, and proposing concrete steps for repair, culminating in a main-stage panel made up exclusively of trans people, who spoke about gender diversity, digital counter-colonialism, and contemporary issues such as platform regulation and the challenges posed by rising authoritarianism.

In addition, since RightsCon is a regular gathering for the group and the 2026 edition is being held in a country that is hostile to LGBTQIA+ people (Zambia), the group is in ongoing dialogue with the organizers to help ensure that participants can attend safely.

To join, send us an email with the subject line “QueerRights”.