News & Updates

04/12/22 - Excited to share some new work on encodings of gender, authenticity, and authority in mobile apps designed to support transgender voice training, published with Convergence. The work was done in collaboration with Alex Ahmed and Levin Kim, with credit going to Alex for the initial idea and for stewarding the work through some difficult pandemic interruptions!

06/25/21 - I have a new paper out at The Review of Communication! Co-authored with Nikki Stevens and Sarah Florini, this work revisits foundational texts from the 1970s “database revolution” to show how they extended particular kinds of racialized power by, among other things, encoding whiteness as a kind of “unremarked optimum” in database development. Also, check out the entire issue for some more excellent critical work on the theme of optimization!

04/01/21 - I have an essay in a new issue of Global Perspectives dedicated to Cross-Cultural Feminist Technologies (edited by Payal Arora and Rumman Chowdhury)! My piece - “Even When You Are A Solution You Are A Problem: An Uncomfortable Reflection on Feminist Data Ethics” - reflects on developments in work on data justice and feminist data studies and the discomfort that arises in the course of doing critical work. You can also read a bit more about the special issue over at the UC Press blog!

03/31/21 - Thrilled to share that I’ve joined the newly-launched Center for Applied Transgender Studies as a Senior Fellow! Excited for the work this rad group of folks will be able to do.

12/17/20 - Happy to share two new chapters in some exciting collections! The first is a commentary piece on Scott Skinner-Thompson’s feminist rewrite of the Sipple v. Chronicle decision for the rewritten tort opinions installment in Cambridge University’s Press’ Feminist Judgments series. The second is a co-authored piece with Luke Stark and Dan Greene on “Critical Perspectives on Governance Mechanisms for AI/ML Systems” in a new collection on The Cultural Life of Machine Learning.

10/01/20 - Fall quarter has started at UW and I’m happy to share the syllabus for my undergraduate seminar on “Data Ethics.” [PDF] I’ve also made public my introductory lecture notes to to the class: Data Ethics for Non-Ideal Times. [PDF]

08/28/20 - I am excited to share a new paper - “Terms of Inclusion: Data, Discourse, Violence” - recently published at New Media & Society. In it, I address discourses of inclusion and data technologies and how they sustain, rather than ameliorate, violences of power and position. It’s available here! [PDF]

12/11/19 - I’m so excited to share the Feminist Data Manifest-No! This document grew out of the Feminist Data Studies Workshop convened by Patricia Garcia and Marika Cifor in summer 2019. I am honored to have had the chance to contribute to its writing - and all credit to Pat and Marika for seeing it through to the final product! (I’ve also created a companion GIF blog: On Refusal. They pair nicely, IMHO.)

01/20/19 - My paper, Where Fairness Fails: Data, Algorithms, and the Limits of Antidiscrimination Discourse, is now available online! It is included as part of a special issue of Information, Communication, and Society on “Data Justice” - I’m thrilled to be a part of it!