They record data in structured formats like databases but also informally through building things like "the trans brain trust on making name changes." They also refuse data (to protect trans ppl) + use data to reframe common narratives.
And there's a sibling piece led by @drnikko.bsky.social about trans specific data epistemologies journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We got to think about how US trans activists use data in interesting + nuanced ways that affirm expansive definitions of data like stories, letters, and more. They research for data through traditional methods like in-person data gathering but also through embodied work as activists.
We create a design/research agenda called trans data that prioritizes trans ppl (drawing on prev research abt trans tech + trans competent interaction design). We propose:
1) Trans data materially improves trans lives.
2)Trans data crosses boundaries.
3) Trans data requires constant power analysis.
Please join us at #CHI2026 to think about community + connection! Bring your own crafts + we will have some provided.
Excited to be a Madrona Fellow this year with @ecotrust.bsky.social thinking about food + culture + land + climate in the Pacific Northwest with sooooo many other inspiring people in the region ecotrust.org/madrona-fell...
We highlight how trans data can be used to build new data collection, analysis, and communication systems that serve trans liberation and help reorient researchers to the deep political commitments of data for and about trans people. And also there are implications for data advocacy + CSCW research!
New work that I got to present at #CSCW2025 (that got an honorable mention + DEI recognition) with @drnikko.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social "Trans Data: A Research and Design Agenda from Trans Activists' Transformative Data Science" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
UW News spoke with Amelia Lee Doğan @ameliadogan.bsky.social & Lindah Kotut @kotut.bsky.social of the Information School about what can AI developers learn from climate activists.
Read the Q&A:
www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
Read the research article: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
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