Not for citation. Pre-publication version. Publication: Global Perspectives (2021) 2 (1): 21268. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2021.21268 Decolonizing the internet by decolonizing ourselves: Challenging epistemic injustice through feminist practice Camille Emefa Acey, Siko Bouterse, Sucheta Ghoshal, Amanda Menking, Anasuya Sengupta*, Adele Godoy Vrana Introduction As a Dalit software engineer, being in a space that empowered us to create our own content was deeply inspiring. I felt I had ownership over a story so seldom told by others. I found histories and stories that were buried and forgotten. These are stories that get muted in the loud barkings of mansplaining. I learned about people like me. I learned about Grace Banu, another Dalit Software Engineer, who went through her computer science program without owning a computer. The editathon told me that I mattered, and that I had power over my own voice. I hope to continue to support more editathons in the future . — Selvi2017 (new Wikipedia editor, after participating in a Dalit History Month editing event, supported by Whose Knowledge?) Why we need feminist decolonization The history and knowledge of marginalised communities, like the Dalit community that Selvi2017 comes from, is the history and knowledge of the majority of the world. Like many marginalized communities, Dalits (those formerly and pejoratively known as “untouchables” in South Asia’s caste system) have been denied access to educational institutions, and their histories have often been written by their oppressors instead of their own community. In the age of the internet, unfortunately, these same biases about who writes (or can write) historical knowledge have frequently been reproduced, and sometimes deepened, online. Seventy-five percent of the world's online population is from the global South (Internet World Stats 2017), and nearly half of all women are online (International Telecommunication Union 2017). As the primary example of online public knowledge, Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world (Alexa 2020). Yet, at last count, only 20% of the world edits about 80% of Wikipedia’s global content (Wikimedia Foundation Staff 2015), and we estimate that only 1 in 10 of the editors is female (Galvez 2018; Hill and Shaw 2013). Public online knowledge does not represent most of the world; it does not look like most of us online. While much of the focus of internet research and activism has been on access and usability, we 1