Imagining Radical Queer Futures through Tech
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Claim: tech is designed by and for a narrow, colonial binary and that fixes who fits and who is filtered out. Evidence and specifics: founder-built dating app Thurst as a concrete response, examples of platforms used and subverted (Twitter Instagram Snapchat Tumblr, Neopets), civic uses connecting Ferguson and Gaza, programs like Black Girls Code cited, documented failures of safety-by-default on mainstream platforms, and a clear prescription to hire and fund marginalized builders and center Black Twitter as a driver of design.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:37Radical Queer Futures through Tech
- 3:26New Pets
- 4:44Inclusion
- 6:19Eating Trash
- 7:30How can we ratify these spaces
- 9:04Connecting diasporas
- 11:45Radical Queer Spaces
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