Border Women Literature and Feminist Cartographies: Student Approaches to Dataset and Visualization Development for Gender‐Based Violence Documentation

ABSTRACT Researching gender violence and transnational feminist movements fuels commitment to meaningful change. Drawing on Toni Morrison's 1998 call to refuse desensitization to violence, examining how three university students—Niloufar Esmaeili (PhD English), Jessica Corona (MA Spanish), and Jasbeth Medrano (Political Science undergraduate)—engaged with gender violence research through a transborder–transnational feminist digital humanities course titled “Border Women Literature & Feminist Cartographies.” Centered in the El Paso del Norte US–Mexico border region, the course approached gender violence through decolonial and transnational feminist lenses, emphasizing socially responsible data practices. As scholars and women of color, the authors applied these methodologies to their emerging research: Esmaeili's work on Iran's Women Life Freedom movement, Corona's historical documentation of gender violence in Spanish‐language newspapers, and Medrano's policy analysis of migration and gender violence at the US–Mexico border.