Lampejo, a Coding Rights initiative born from collaboration with the Transfeminist Network of Digital Care, Olabi, and MariaLab, is an ambitious project responding to the context of artificial intelligence and elections: it brings free workshops on technopolitics, communication, digital care, and transfeminist futures to eleven cities across Brazil, between June and October 2026, with the goal of reaching 1,400 people on the front line of the defense of democracy and human rights.

You open your phone in the morning and the first video in your feed is a celebrity saying something they never said. Further down, a message forwarded a thousand times spreads a lie about the ballot boxes. In the family group chat, someone shares an audio clip that sounds real but isn’t. And a friend running for office for the first time wakes up to find her phone number leaked, her face stitched into images that aren’t hers, and a flood of violent messages. In 2026, this is how the electoral contest reaches us: through the screen, in real time, accelerated by an artificial intelligence that is now in anyone’s hands.

It is to prepare for this moment that Lampejo emerges, a popular school of technopolitics, communication, and digital care. Each workshop, a lampejo, a flash of light: it passes quickly, illuminates strategies, and opens paths.

Lampejo starts from a wager: this moment is not only one of risk, but also one of opportunity. The opportunity to think about communication strategically and to take up technologies as tools of struggle and of building collective power. The school does not start from scratch: it is a collective response that brings together the organizations’ accumulated experience in facilitation and research with the richness and creativity that already exist in the strategies of our field.

Inspired by popular education, the school sparks exchanges of knowledge and action. Each workshop lasts up to six hours, gathers a group of at least 20 people, and is designed with content specific to each reality.

The school works with four tracks

• Understanding and acting in the face of disinformation and hate tactics
• Preparing and protecting people, data, and collectives with feminist and antiracist digital care
• Mitigating and providing support in cases of digital attacks
• Building transfeminist futures in digital space

The workshops reach eleven cities across Brazil between June and October: Salvador (BA), Recife (PE), Belém (PA), Fortaleza (CE), Parnaíba (PI), São Luís (MA), Brasília (DF), Belo Horizonte (MG), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP), and Porto Alegre (RS). Launched by four organizations, Lampejo multiplies as a network: to reach each territory in a rooted way, it brings in local partner organizations that already know firsthand the realities where the school works, along with 23 facilitators trained to work in the field.

Care goes beyond the workshops.

Lampejo coordinates other fronts for the electoral cycle. One is Maria d’Ajuda, a feminist support and response line that addresses digital security incidents and emergencies, operated by MariaLab. Another is Deflect, a layer of protection that keeps websites online even under attack, operated by eQualitie and free for eligible organizations.

“The idea is to get a better sense of the internet as a territory, and of what an election shaped by AI really means, which on one side amplifies disinformation and gender-based political violence, and on the other also opens up opportunities.”
Joana Varon, executive director of Coding Rights

The workshops are free and can be requested by social movements, human rights organizations, candidacies and elected offices, journalists and communicators, election observers, and the academic community. Anyone who wants to bring a lampejo to their collective or organization can request one at lampejo.digital. On the site, you can access the Lampejo Library, full of materials on communication and digital care to use, adapt, and share. Come explore and join us.

About Lampejo

Lampejo is a popular school of technopolitics, communication, and digital care, born from the collaboration between Coding Rights, which coordinates the initiative, together with the Transfeminist Network of Digital Care, Olabi, and MariaLab, organizations working at the intersection of technology, gender, race, and human rights. Inspired by popular education and grounded in a transfeminist and antiracist perspective, it brings free workshops to eleven cities across Brazil throughout the 2026 electoral cycle, with a growing network of local partnerships. Learn more at https://lampejo.digital.

In networks, we are strong.