{"id":962,"date":"2019-03-16T05:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T05:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/?p=962"},"modified":"2019-03-16T05:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T05:30:54","slug":"innovate-software-biases-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2019\/03\/16\/innovate-software-biases-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Out to Innovate: Software Biases and Your Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-964\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/out-to-innovate-2.png\" alt=\"Out to Innovate: Science Technology Engineering Mathematics with Pride\" width=\"868\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The three key takeaways from my talk on <strong>Intersectional internet studies, trans-inclusive design, accessibility, design justice, and your projects <\/strong>at NOGLSTP&#8217;s Out to Innovate 2019 conference:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Software tends to reinforce societal systems of oppression<\/li>\n<li>There are ways to do better<\/li>\n<li>You can apply these perspectives to your own work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the slides &#8212; followed by a reference list.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vQe3i6O-eS0U4vv_0TsPoi3AwfxQsREItfntcSTe-cgyq6DcV3Xhjg2_BvUTBRxcDLCKsoN67JHgtyM\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" width=\"960\" height=\"569\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Intersectional Internet Studies<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"hoverable\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/intersectionality-definitions-videos-and-links-2f626f0e75c2\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/intersectionality-definitions-videos-and-links-2f626f0e75c2\">Intersectionality: definitions, videos, and links<\/a>\u00a0includes videos, and links to papers, articles, interviews, and books, with perspectives on intersectionality from Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, and others.<\/li>\n<li>Safiya Umoja Noble&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sfonline.barnard.edu\/traversing-technologies\/safiya-umoja-noble-a-future-for-intersectional-black-feminist-technology-studies\/0\/?print=true\"><i>A Future for Intersectional Black Feminist Technology Studies<\/i><\/a> (in S&amp;F Online) is a good short introduction to intersectional critical thinking about technology.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/intersectionalinternet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/intersectionalinternet.com\/\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">The Intersectional Internet<\/em><\/a> (edited by Safiya Umoja Noble and Brendesha M. Tynes) explores a variety of topics.\u00a0 Miriam E. Sweeney\u2019s chapter on \u201cThe Intersectional Interface\u201d looks at how gender and race shape the design of <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">anthropomorphized virtual agents<\/em> (AVAs) and \u201cilluminates the ethical considerations that designers of technology must engage with if they are to engage socially responsible technologies.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/centerformediajustice.org\/2017\/06\/20\/malkia-cyril-will-harbor-fight-police-violence-demand-digital-sanctuary\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/1600\/1*V16cWvjrpqxQu8te9g5JvA.png\" alt=\"Technologies reflect the biases of the makers and implicit rules of society - Malkia Cyril at PDF\" width=\"1286\" height=\"722\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malkia Cyril&#8217;s <a class=\"hoverable\" href=\"https:\/\/centerformediajustice.org\/2017\/06\/20\/malkia-cyril-will-harbor-fight-police-violence-demand-digital-sanctuary\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/centerformediajustice.org\/2017\/06\/20\/malkia-cyril-will-harbor-fight-police-violence-demand-digital-sanctuary\/\">Will You Harbor Me? To Fight Police Violence, Demand Digital Sanctuary<\/a> , from Personal Democracy Forum 2017, discusses how &#8220;Simply inserting digital technologies into discriminatory policing without addressing fundamental flaws in its historic design only serves to supersize discrimination, can only reduce community safety and violate the civil rights of the most vulnerable among us.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/finalists\/julia-angwin-jeff-larson-surya-mattu-lauren-kirchner-and-terry-parris-jr-propublica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/finalists\/julia-angwin-jeff-larson-surya-mattu-lauren-kirchner-and-terry-parris-jr-propublica\">ProPublica\u2019s series on machine bias<\/a>, by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu, Lauren Kirchner and Terry Parris Jr., was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello&#8217;s\u00a0 <a class=\"hoverable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transadvocate.com\/the-tsa-a-binary-body-system-in-practice_n_15540.htm\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.transadvocate.com\/the-tsa-a-binary-body-system-in-practice_n_15540.htm\">The TSA: a binary body system in practice<\/a>, on <em>TransAdvocate, <\/em>is another powerful look at the cis-normativity of TSA&#8217;s technologies and systems.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-965 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/algorithms-of-oppression-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, by Safiya Umoja Noble\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/>Safiya Umoja Noble&#8217;s outstanding <em>Algorithms of Oppression <\/em>looks at how search engines reinforce racism.\u00a0 <a class=\"hoverable\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5209144\/google-search-engine-algorithm-bias-racism\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5209144\/google-search-engine-algorithm-bias-racism\/\">Google&#8217;s Algorithm: History of Racism Against Black Women<\/a>, from <em>Time, <\/em>is a good introduction.\u00a0\u00a0 Cordelia Fine\u2019s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5e3901a6-208e-11e8-8d6c-a1920d9e946f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5e3901a6-208e-11e8-8d6c-a1920d9e946f\">Coded prejudice: how algorithms fuel injustice<\/a> reviews <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Algorithms of Oppression <\/em>and <a class=\"markup--user markup--p-user\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@PopTechWorks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@PopTechWorks\" data-anchor-type=\"2\" data-user-id=\"b0826ed3fe12\" data-action-value=\"b0826ed3fe12\" data-action=\"show-user-card\" data-action-type=\"hover\">Virginia Eubanks<\/a>\u2019 <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Automating Inequality<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Alex Dalbey&#8217;s <a class=\"hoverable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/irl\/trans-twitter-bans\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/irl\/trans-twitter-bans\/\">Trans People Keep Getting Suspended From Twitter\u2014And They Want Answers<\/a>, from <em>The Daily Dot<\/em>, looks at a wave of suspensions that appear to be due to a mass reporting campaign by TERFs.\u00a0\u00a0 Didi Delgado&#8217;s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@thedididelgado\/mark-zuckerberg-hates-black-people-ae65426e3d2a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@thedididelgado\/mark-zuckerberg-hates-black-people-ae65426e3d2a\">Mark Zuckerberg Hates Black People<\/a>, Julia Angwin et. al.\u2019s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms\">Facebook\u2019s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children<\/a> in <em class=\"markup--em markup--li-em\">Pro Publica<\/em> , and Aaron Sankin&#8217;s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revealnews.org\/article\/how-activists-of-color-lose-battles-against-facebooks-moderator-army\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.revealnews.org\/article\/how-activists-of-color-lose-battles-against-facebooks-moderator-army\/\">How activists of color lose battles against Facebook\u2019s moderator army<\/a> in <em class=\"markup--em markup--li-em\">Reveal, <\/em>look at other situations where social networks suspend marginalized people who are calling out racism, sexism, or anti-LGBTQ behavior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Trans-inclusive design<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-969\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/how-not-to-do-it.png\" alt=\"A form asking for gender with only two options: Male and Female\" width=\"632\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>How not to do it<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Wilson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90165071\/how-tech-giants-design-for-transgender-users-or-dont\">How Tech Giants Design For Transgender Users\u2013Or Don\u2019t<\/a> looks at a challenge Sophie Alpert faced after transitioning: &#8220;her profile on Airbnb, where she had been a member since 2013, still referred to her with male pronouns and referenced her old name.&#8221;\u00a0 Airbnb\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sophiebits\/status\/972647357899681792\">fixed the problem<\/a> by updating all references to Alpert&#8217;s names and pronouns across all comments.<\/li>\n<li>Finn Harker and Jonathan Ellis&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/sessions\/1489\"><i>Male\/Female\/Othered: Implementing Gender-Inclusiveness in User Data Collection<\/i><\/a>, from Open Source Bridge, and Sabrina Fonseca&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/uxdesign.cc\/designing-forms-for-gender-diversity-and-inclusion-d8194cf1f51\"><i>Designing forms for gender diversity and inclusion<\/i><\/a> are two complementary looks at best practices for asking about gender and pronouns.<\/li>\n<li>Gopinaath Kannabiran&#8217;s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ccid2.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/gkannabiran-where-are-all-the-queers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/ccid2.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/gkannabiran-where-are-all-the-queers.pdf\">Where are all the queers? A research blind spot in Gender &amp; HCI<\/a> was one of the first papers to look at the heteronormativity of the human-computer interaation (HCI) space.\u00a0\u00a0 Samantha Breslin and Bimlesh Wadhwa\u2019s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2676709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2676709\">Exploring Nuanced Gender Perspectives within the HCI Community,<\/a>\u00a0and Olivier L. Haimson and Gillian R. Hayes\u2019 <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/oliverhaimson.com\/PDFs\/HaimsonTowardTransInclusion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/oliverhaimson.com\/PDFs\/HaimsonTowardTransInclusion.pdf\">Towards Trans Inclusion in Feminist HCI<\/a>, both from 2014, helped broaden perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>Foad Hamidi, Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, and Stacy M. Branham\u2019s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=3173574.3173582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=3173574.3173582\">Gender Recognition or Gender Reductionism?<\/a> finds that transgender individuals \u201chave overwhelmingly negative attitudes towards AGR [automated gender-recognition] and fundamentally question whether it can accurately recognize such a subjective aspect of their identity,\u201d and includes recommendations on how to accommodate gender diversity when designing new digital systems. Os Keyes <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ironholds.org\/resources\/papers\/agr_paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/ironholds.org\/resources\/papers\/agr_paper.pdf\">The Misgendering Machines: Trans\/HCI Implications of Automatic Gender Recognition<\/a> shows that \u201cAGR consistently operationalises gender in a trans-exclusive way, and consequently carries disproportionate risk for trans people subject to it,\u201d and includes ideas for alternatives to AGR and how HCI can work towards a more effective and trans-inclusive treatment of gender.<\/li>\n<li>Gopinaath Kannabiran\u2019s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/feministhciworkshop.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/gkannabiran_feministhci2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/feministhciworkshop.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/gkannabiran_feministhci2011.pdf\">Themself: Critical Analysis of Gender in Facebook<\/a>; Oliver L. Haimson and Anna Lauren Hoffmann\u2019s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstmonday.dk\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/6791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.firstmonday.dk\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/6791\">Constructing and enforcing \u201cauthentic\u201d identity online: Facebook, real names, and non-normative identities<\/a>; Alex Ahmed\u2019s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/iwc\/article-abstract\/30\/1\/53\/4657109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/iwc\/article-abstract\/30\/1\/53\/4657109\">Trans Competent Interaction Design: A Qualitative Study on Voice, Identity, and Technology<\/a>; and Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Stacy M. Branham, and Foad Hamidi\u2019s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.wixstatic.com\/ugd\/eb2cd9_607b22404ef541469b158d70de9866d0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/docs.wixstatic.com\/ugd\/eb2cd9_607b22404ef541469b158d70de9866d0.pdf\">Safe Spaces and Safe Places: Unpacking Technology-Mediated Experiences of Safety and Harm with Transgender People<\/a> look at other important topics from a gender diversity perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Accessibility<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/projects\/million\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-967 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/03\/accessibility-failures.png\" alt=\"85% of home pages have low contrast text. 68% have Missing alternative text for images. 58% have empty link.\" width=\"1018\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Over 90% of the top 1,000,000 home pages have significant automatically-detectable accessibility problems<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/projects\/million\/\">The WebAIM Million<\/a> looks at the top million home pages from an accessibility perspective.\u00a0 &#8220;While this research focuses only on automatically detectable issues, the results paint a rather dismal picture of the current state of web accessibility.&#8221;\u00a0 Ethan Marcotte&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ethanmarcotte.com\/wrote\/the-web-we-broke\/\">The web we broke<\/a> and Eric Bailey&#8217;s <a class=\"hoverable\" href=\"https:\/\/ericwbailey.design\/writing\/2019-03-05-fighting-uphill.html\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/ericwbailey.design\/writing\/2019-03-05-fighting-uphill.html\">Fighting uphill<\/a> react to this study.<\/li>\n<li>The <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/Overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/Overview.html\">W3C\u2019s Web Accessibility Initiative<\/a> has an <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/intro\/accessibility.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/intro\/accessibility.php\">Introduction to Web Accessibility<\/a>, tips on <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/tips\/designing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/tips\/designing\">Designing<\/a>, <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/tips\/writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/tips\/writing\">Writing<\/a>, and <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/tips\/developing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/gettingstarted\/tips\/developing\">Developing<\/a> for web accessibility, a summary of the <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG20\/glance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG20\/glance\/\">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines<\/a> as well as the full spec, <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/PF\/aria-practices\/WAI-ARIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/PF\/aria-practices\/WAI-ARIA\">Authoring Practices<\/a>, and a lot more info.<\/li>\n<li id=\"8f17\" class=\"graf graf--li graf-after--li\"><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/a11yproject.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/a11yproject.com\">The A11y project<\/a>: a community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier. Digestible, up-to-date, and forgiving.<\/li>\n<li class=\"graf graf--li graf-after--li\"><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zngSYz3pYl4&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;list=PL95LOQw9SLWxmcZtzBiFuT9HAJKFJnl2n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zngSYz3pYl4&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;list=PL95LOQw9SLWxmcZtzBiFuT9HAJKFJnl2n\">Web accessibility basics<\/a> by Marco Zehe packs a lot of information into a 50-minute video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Design Justice<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Sasha Costanza-Chock&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3189696\">Design Justice: Towards an Intersectional Feminist Framework for Design Theory and Practice<\/a> builds upon the <a href=\"http:\/\/designjusticenetwork.org\/network-principles\">Design Justice Network Principles<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Costanza-Chock&#8217;s <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/jods.mitpress.mit.edu\/pub\/costanza-chock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/jods.mitpress.mit.edu\/pub\/costanza-chock\">Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination<\/a>, winner of the <em>Journal of Design and Science<\/em> &#8216;s &#8220;Resisting Reduction&#8221; essay contest, begins with a section on #TravelingWhileTrans and ends with &#8220;Building a world where many worlds fit.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-805\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/07\/tornapart-squarish.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the US with orange circles overlaid\" width=\"411\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xpmethod.plaintext.in\/torn-apart\/volume\/2\/index\">Torn Apart\/Separados<\/a> is &#8220;a rapidly deployed critical data &amp; visualization intervention in the USA\u2019s 2018 \u201cZero Tolerance Policy\u201d for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Emily Dreyfuss&#8217; <a class=\"hoverable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ice-is-everywhere-using-library-science-to-map-child-separation\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ice-is-everywhere-using-library-science-to-map-child-separation\/\">Using Library Science to Map the Child Separation Crisis<\/a> in <em>Wired <\/em>is a good introduction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>And a few links for the software engineers<\/h1>\n<p>My own work focuses on the intersections between software engineering and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a series of presentations and articles that cover this perspective.f<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/diversity-friendly-software-at-sxsw-2017-references-c0ca05a191a6\">Diversity-friendly software<\/a>, with Shireen Mitchell, SXSW 2017, is a good starting point. As well as the <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/208905804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/208905804\">video<\/a> and <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vT0B5NCAsQ4hbVig_qtwaOkxhQK_VnOMcde6QGMjkqycO_74vkjcRjiEw_VXQVeWKrBL3I6B_Qd8f6x\/pub?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vT0B5NCAsQ4hbVig_qtwaOkxhQK_VnOMcde6QGMjkqycO_74vkjcRjiEw_VXQVeWKrBL3I6B_Qd8f6x\/pub?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\">slides<\/a>, the post has copious links on techniques including setting intention, accessibility, flexible optional self-identification, threat modeling for harassment, and algorithmic bias.<\/li>\n<li>The <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/wiki\/Supporting_diversity_with_a_new_approach_to_software#Techniques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/opensourcebridge.org\/wiki\/Supporting_diversity_with_a_new_approach_to_software#Techniques\">Techniques for <em class=\"markup--em markup--li-em\">Supporting diversity with a new approach to software<\/em> <\/a>wiki pages Tammarrian Rogers and I put together on the Open Source Bridge are a much lengthier but less-annotated (and less-polished) collection of links.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/gender-hci-feminist-hci-and-post-colonial-computing-f955a4054c89#.vb1iq3uqy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/gender-hci-feminist-hci-and-post-colonial-computing-f955a4054c89#.vb1iq3uqy\">Transforming Tech with Diversity-friendly software<\/a>, originally presented at TRANSform Tech, discusses a handful of software projects that apply these techniques, including Dreamwidth Studios, Thurst, Pronoun Island, Heartmob, and a detailed look at the open-source, decentralized, ad-free, anti-fascist social network Mastodon.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/diversity-friendly-software-and-strategy-at-techinclusion-seattle-216adcacf780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/diversity-friendly-software-and-strategy-at-techinclusion-seattle-216adcacf780\">Diversity-friendly software and strategy at TechInclusion Seattle<\/a> looks at how these techniques apply to O.school, a highly-inclusive sex education software.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/sex-pleasure-and-diversity-friendly-software-the-article-the-acm-wouldnt-publish-19ebc34175d4\">Sex, pleasure, and diversity-friendly software: the article the ACM wouldn\u2019t publish<\/a> was originally an invited article for the <em>Human to Human <\/em>issue of XRDS: Crossroads, the Association for Computing Machinery&#8217;s\u00a0 student magazine.\u00a0 The student editors loved it.\u00a0 The ACM refused to publish it.\u00a0 This revised version contains excerpts from the unpublished paper, as well as reflections on experience and the opportunities it highlights for software engineering.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?doid=3170427.3188400\">What\u2019s at Issue: Sex, Stigma, and Politics in ACM Publishing<\/a>, with Alex Ahmed, Judeth Oden Choi, Teresa Almeida, and Kelly Ireland, CHI 2018, looks at the underlying institutional and sociopolitical problems this episode (and others involved in editing the <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Human to Human <\/em>issue) highlights. <strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">What\u2019s at Issue<\/strong> also proposes starting points for future action for HCI-related research and academic publishing practices.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-change-is-coming\/gender-hci-feminist-hci-and-post-colonial-computing-f955a4054c89\">Gender HCI, Feminist HCI, Post-Colonial Computing, Anti-Oppressive Design, and Design Justice<\/a> is an overview and annotated reading list on a range of related topics that aren&#8217;t as well known as they should be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-741\" src=\"http:\/\/achangeiscoming.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/04\/diversity-friendly-2.png\" alt=\"Diverse, Inclusive People and Communities create software that embeds diversity and in turn empowers the diverse people and communities who created it\" width=\"1704\" height=\"678\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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