Thread by @fempowertech

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

but the poem also contains powerful stances of awakening, revolution, and rebirth; of subtle resistance and powerful resilience

that the other has a lot to offer to society, a way of questioing the effects of technologies on society, and to include people in that process

Julie's poem is from one person's point of view, but highlights how technology users cannot be placed into a single category. we must understan individual's identities, values, and aspirations. In doing so, we honour their history, their voice, and their liberty as equals

What a fantastically unique paper: a literary analysis of a participants' poem reflecting on a design workshop. please do go read this #CHI2020 paper!

An oldy’s lament: Poem of resistance and resilience of the ‘othered’ in technology colonisation dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…