DESIGN JUSTICE, AI, AND ESCAPE FROM THE MATRIX OF DOMINATION

• Published in: Against Reduction
• Main Authors: Arista, Noelani, Costanza-Chock, Sasha, Ghazavi, Vafa, Kite, Suzanne, Klusmeier, Cathryn, Lewis, Jason Edward, Pechawis, Archer, Sawyer, Jaclyn, Zhang, Gary Zhexi, Zhang, Snoweria
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MIT Press 2021

Part 1: #TravelingWhileTrans Millimeter Wave Scanning, the Sociotechnical Reproduction of the Gender Binary, and the Importance of Embodied Knowledge to the Design of Artificial Intelligence It's June 2017, and I'm standing in the security line at the Detroit Metro Airport. I'm on my way back to Boston from the Allied Media Conference (AMC), a "collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing" that's been held every year in Detroit for the past two decades. 1 As a nonbinary, transgender, femme-presenting person, my experience of the AMC was deeply liberating. It's a conference that strives harder than any that I know of to be inclusive of all kinds of people, including queer, trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming (QTI/GNC) folks. Although it's far from perfect, and every year inevitably brings new challenges and difficult conversations about what it means to construct a truly inclusive space, it's a powerful experience—a kind of temporary autonomous zone. 2