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Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience

Our 5th year anniversary event "Foundations and Futures of Feminist Technosciences" is beginning now!

More info here: techfutures.lmc.gatech.edu/feminist-techn…

We'll be live-tweeting the conversation as it goes. Please join along, you can tag @catalyst_sts and use #Catalyst5th and #FeministSTS.

@NassimParvin

One of our lead editors @NassimParvin has welcomed everyone and thanked the many organizers, including @maramills, Anne Pollock, and Sonja van Wichelen, as well as sponsors of the event: @DILAC_GT, @cdsNYU, @GTliberalarts.

First up: editorial board member Banu Subramaniam interviews Donna Haraway on Foundations of Feminist Technosciences! #Catalyst5th #FeministSTS

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Aimi Hamraie they/them

@AimiHamraie

Let's talk about online teaching and accessibility. Shifting courses online is an opportunity to build in accessibility from the beginning. #thread #criptechnoscience

1. If you already use an online course manager, you may be familiar with some basic accessible teaching strategies: Image descriptions for all images and videos, 2.captions and/or transcripts for all videos, 3.PDFs with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for screen reader access

@thisten

2. Use apps like Otter.ai or @thisten to transcribe class discussions for the future archive. AND/or assign a student or two to live-type class notes shared via Google Doc.

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Rua Mae Williams

@StarFeuri

@clb5590

@clb5590 is here to tell us that there is already an active and robust Blind Maker community that we can collaborate with and learn from.

#ASSETS2019 #CripTheACM

Despite the fact that many maker technologies are inaccessible to develop for, Blind hobbyists and makers have been forging their own #CripTechnoscience to make and build their own artifacts.

#ASSETS2019 #CripTheACM

@clb5590

@clb5590 reminds us that publishing work done with community activists can be extractive and exploitative and we need to be conscious not to profit off of the deprivation and enginuity of others.

#ASSETS2019 #CripTheACM

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Rua Mae Williams

@StarFeuri

I am always struck by the correlation of techno-desire with populations of disabled people who are less immersed in the culture and community of disability.

We find DHH support for sound awareness systems decreases the further into deaf culture you go.

#ASSETS2019 #FATE4PWD

Sometimes this desire is a product of systemic discrimination for having a non normative body. Is the problem then not still the system of oppression rather than the body?

I want us to start deploying technologies outward to systems rather than inward onto bodies. #ASSETS2019

The kinds of techno-desire that comes from disabled people who are not seeking a restoration to a normative body are so much more imaginative and transformative than what we tend to design from this medical "correctional" lens. #ASSETS2019 #FATE4PWD #CripTheACM #CripTechnoscience

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Rua Mae Williams

@StarFeuri