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I wanna talk about a thing in #ParticipatoryDesign that we didn't get to talk about during @fempowertech #CHIversity panel today.

INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION
When we work with marginalized groups as co-informants, co-designers, and co-researchers, we have to be aware of internalized oppression in ourselves and our participants.
Internalized Oppression can result in our participants expressing desires that align with their systemic oppression.

This doesn't mean that those desires are invalid! BUT
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Next up we have @StarFeuri talking about their co-authored paper titled "I'm just so terrified of my future": Epistemic Violence in disability related technology research

#CHI2020 #CHIversity
@StarFeuri when disabled people do research, reviewing the literature is a nightmare...

no-one ever asks about how disabled people feel about the outcomes of studies. and disabled scholars experience violence when they are doing their literature reviews
@StarFeuri when disabled people do research...IRB (ethics) approval is a nightmare

when disabled people do research...anonymous review is a nightmare.

disabled researchers are not reviewed by their peers, they are reviwed by their abusers
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it's that time of the week again where we're live-tweeting some fantastic #CHI2020 papers for our #CHIversity panel!

First up: Aloha Ambe on An Oldy's Lament: Poem of Resistance and Resilience of the 'Othered' in Technology Colonisation dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…
Aloha starts with a recording of Julie Butler's reading of her poem: 'An Oldy's Lament' including great lines such as:

"We have much to offer if only you'd see"

"don't let technology be the upper hand
include us, but gently you understand"
this poem is Julie's way of expressing her feelings, emotions, and feelings following a design workshop

The poem resonates with language of the colonised other: it relates to gentle resistance, power dynamics, and has an emphasis on identity
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