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3 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read
You need new, transfeminist energy for 2021.

You should grab one of the last copies of the Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies!

#design #games #tech #trans #feministas

store.alliedmedia.org/products/the-o…
The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies is a hands-on card deck designed to help us collectively envision and share ideas for transfeminist technologies from the future.
Throughout history, human beings have used a wide variety of divination procedures – such as tarot decks – as technologies to understand the present and reshape our destinies.
The wisdom of the Oracle, embedded with transfeminist values, will help us foresee a future where technologies are designed by people who are too often excluded from or targeted by technology in today's world. More information: transfeministech.org.
Credits: A co-production by @CodingRights and the Design Justice Network @design__justice. Concept, writing, and coordination by @joana_varon and myself; design and illustration by Clara Juliano.

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Did you know that AI has always been in bed with binary gender classification? The original Turing Test itself isn't a computer that can convince a person it's a human - it's a machine that can pass as a woman better than a man can. Like if you knew, RT if that's news to you ;)
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Google just keeps firing all of its most ethical people, huh?
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A brief thread on #ADA30 and the future of design: Disability justice is foundational to #designjustice. Ch. 2 of Design Justice begins with the disability activist slogan "Nothing about us without us." (Freely available here: design-justice.pubpub.org/pub/cfohnud7/r…)
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As a trans non-binary femme using HRT (estradiol) and as a person with two advanced degrees and 20 years of practice in study design, I feel the need to share a few words about this study. (1/n)
First of all, after you look at the link that JK Rowling shared, please go look at the original study, "Occurrence of Acute Cardiovascular Events in Transgender Individuals Receiving Hormone Therapy," here ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…
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30 Jun 20
This is huge. The ACM is calling for an "immediate suspension of the current and future private and governmental use" of Facial Recognition technologies, for "both technical and ethical reasons."

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If you own stock in a facial recognition technology company or have invested in an FRT startup, now is the time to sell ;)
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