Experiencing the Sounds and Silences of Cairo by Reem Khorshid

I recall long nights, falling asleep on my grandmother’s lap with my fingers resting on her throat, feeling her vocal cords vibrate to her croons. Her lips moving, her lap swinging to lullabies that I never really got to hear. My grandmother, Aziza, had a stroke and suffered from aphasia before I was fitted with my first hearing aids. This was childhood: I meet sound in a place somewhere between the quivering sound waves and the fleeting fragments of time.

https://www.platformspace.net/home/experiencing-the-sounds-and-silences-of-cairo

Feminist Data Manifest-No

The Manifest-No is a declaration of refusal and commitment. It refuses harmful data regimes and commits to new data futures.

https://www.manifestno.com/

‘Where do you know from’: An exercise in placing ourselves in the classroom by Eugenia Zuroski

[...] proposed replacing the typical ‘icebreaker’ question ‘Where are you from?’ with the question ‘Where do you know from?’ As someone who has been asked where I ‘am from’ more times than I could possibly count, I know from experience how inadequate that framework is for situating me as a participant in intellectual communities. The question of how I would trace the genealogy of my knowledge and my intellectual commitments strikes me as a more effective way of placing myself in the room, in the group, and in the conversation.

https://maifeminism.com/where-do-you-know-from-an-exercise-in-placing-ourselves-together-in-the-classroom/

Homing and unhoming: taxonomies of living by Sarover Zaidi

If we look at the history of our houses, it is a history of tackling with squares and rectangles in the form of floors, rooms, windows and doors and the placement of things—racks, refrigerators, air conditioners, beds and tables—across these squares and rectangles. How do we then begin to inhabit squares, dwell in them, create enclosures and forms of order for our lives? Do we arrange our lives at right angles or do the angles sometimes not fall so perfectly?

https://chiraghdilli.com/2020/08/07/homing-and-unhoming-taxonomies-of-living/

It Starts with Words: Unconscious Bias in Gender, Race, and Class in Tech Terminology by Angeline Lee

As we work in partnerships with marginalized groups, it is crucial that we are transparent about the problematic and at times violent histories of these terms; that we do not unconsciously pass on and perpetuate harmful ideology. > > > https://www.localizationlab.org/blog/2020/8/19/it-starts-with-words-unconscious-bias-in-gender-race-and-class-in-tech-terminology

When Deafness Is Not Considered a Deficit by Grace Neveu

There was no deaf school for Raul and no access to hearing aids, cochlear implants, or speech therapy. His parents were unaware that national sign languages, such as American Sign Language, even existed, and they didn’t have the means to provide him with a deaf education. This is the reality for many deaf people around the world. Without outside ideologies impacting their choices, the Maijuna adapted as a community rather than enforcing conformity on the individual or reacting with ostracization. To the Maijuna, signing with their deaf community members was natural, not radical.

https://www.sapiens.org/language/maijuna/

‘Where do you know from’: An exercise in placing ourselves in the classroom by Eugenia Zuroski

[...] proposed replacing the typical ‘icebreaker’ question ‘Where are you from?’ with the question ‘Where do you know from?’ As someone who has been asked where I ‘am from’ more times than I could possibly count, I know from experience how inadequate that framework is for situating me as a participant in intellectual communities. The question of how I would trace the genealogy of my knowledge and my intellectual commitments strikes me as a more effective way of placing myself in the room, in the group, and in the conversation.

https://maifeminism.com/where-do-you-know-from-an-exercise-in-placing-ourselves-together-in-the-classroom/

Homing and unhoming: taxonomies of living by Sarover Zaidi

If we look at the history of our houses, it is a history of tackling with squares and rectangles in the form of floors, rooms, windows and doors and the placement of things—racks, refrigerators, air conditioners, beds and tables—across these squares and rectangles. How do we then begin to inhabit squares, dwell in them, create enclosures and forms of order for our lives? Do we arrange our lives at right angles or do the angles sometimes not fall so perfectly?

https://chiraghdilli.com/2020/08/07/homing-and-unhoming-taxonomies-of-living/

It Starts with Words: Unconscious Bias in Gender, Race, and Class in Tech Terminology by Angeline Lee

As we work in partnerships with marginalized groups, it is crucial that we are transparent about the problematic and at times violent histories of these terms; that we do not unconsciously pass on and perpetuate harmful ideology. > > https://www.localizationlab.org/blog/2020/8/19/it-starts-with-words-unconscious-bias-in-gender-race-and-class-in-tech-terminology