Help us produce our doc "Mujeres Atrevidas"!

Mujeres Atrevidas chronicles the strength and persistence of Latine female app delivery workers, construction workers and domestic cleaners in Brooklyn as they confront harsh working conditions and fight for their rights through involvement with the Workers Justice Project. Our ultimate goal is to intertwine participatory documentary and participatory design methods for these workers to embrace wonder in reimagining what gig worker technology platforms could and should look like to foster well-being and agency. 

We need funds to produce Mujeres Atrevidas into a full length documentary film chronicling the strength of Latine female food app delivery workers and domestic cleaners, who are single mothers and heads of households, as they confront harsh working conditions and organize for justice. The film will depict the potential and pitfalls of the technology applications these workers use to obtain gig work. It will also spotlight how the workers fight for labor rights through their involvement with the Workers Justice Project, a worker center based in Brooklyn that organizes for better working conditions and justice for low income, immigrant workers. As a bilingual initiative in Spanish and English, our project promises to reframe history and language, as well as promote care and envision future tech that is built around gig worker empowerment.

About Mujeres Atrevidas

Through participatory documentary and design, we aim to challenge narrow, dominant narratives about female-identifying Latine immigrant workers, as well as promote equity, care, inclusion, and the democratization of technological innovation for human well-being and agency. In co-creating the film with the workers, we will explore how gig worker technologies may be redesigned to center them, rather than only the customers and shareholders. We will also investigate the potential for alternative digital platforms that are worker-owned and worker-led to better support profit-sharing and labor organizing, respectively. Lastly, we will experiment with nascent artificial intelligence tools that are designed for augmenting post-production processes and aesthetics to consider how they may or may not support grassroots documentary work. These female workers’ stories, composed largely during the course of a day in their lives, blend bold, and at times haunting, narratives expressing the hopes and fears of this workforce, as well as struggles in acts of resistance. Weaving together moving interviews and rare archival footage of activists' lives, political events, and rallies, Mujeres Atrevidas will portray the journeys of four female workers and worker center leaders, their legacy and the enduring power of resilience.

About Workers Justice Project

In looking at the daily conditions that female frontline workers face, Mujeres Atrevidas will document the role that workers centers can have in cities and states across the country, where new labor policies and standards (e.g., domestic workers’ bills of rights and higher minimum wages) are being enacted. Founded in 2010, the Workers Justice Project organizes low-wage, immigrant workers who are fighting to raise workplace standards in the construction, house cleaning, and app-based delivery industries. The film will testify to the ability of bold female-identifying workers to sustain and improve their lives, as they reflect on questions regarding New York City’s future and its relationship to labor.

Where will the funds go?

Everyone who donates will be listed as a supporter in the credits for the film! ALL of the funds will be put towards the production a full length feature which will include additional interviews and footage of female workers along with labor studies scholars and AI experts, fees for narrators and post production costs.