If you're in or near Stockholm, please consider attending this upcoming workshop that @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I are co-organizing! sign-up link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Designing Care, Refusing Harm: Feminist Red and Green Lines for AI in Gendered Health

“When people are questioning their gender, digital ways to explore different appearances can be extremely important. Games often provide highly customizable avatars, which can help people in exploring how they might want to look.” article by @faefyx.bsky.social www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/how-...

My research featured in @advocate.com “People who don’t fit into these standard boxes in terms of gender or race are going to be skeptical of a technology that’s forcing everything into boxes.” w/ @mayworms.info, @shoreingber.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social www.advocate.com/technology/c...

If you're looking for someone to hire for a research position this summer, look no further than @hibbythach.com! This PhD student has it all: methods, ideas, motivation, community-based approach ++ keywords: live streaming, content moderation, games, trans tech, online identity www.hibbythach.com

I have a talk coming up on February 19 at Digital Futures at KTH Royal Institute of Technology here in Stockholm, where I'm a Scholar-in-Residence. If you're in the area, I’d love to see you there - and if not, you’re welcome to join on Zoom. more info: www.digitalfutures.kth.se/event/semina...

Thanks to @morganklauss.bsky.social, the Queer in HCI community on Slack is now a fun and thriving space - join us! 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ invite link: join.slack.com/t/queerhci/s...

Our new piece about how AI misinformation can impact medical care: "Beyond Autonomy: A Plastic Surgeon's Responsibility in the Face of AI-Driven Misinformation." Led by Pranav Rajaram, w @meglane.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, Rachel Hooper, Hannes Prescher journals.lww.com/annalsplasti...

The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts (with Senami Kojah, @haimson.bsky.social, and @michaelannephd.bsky.social) [Second Author]

Navigating Safety and Technology: The Everyday Safety Labor of Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States (with Denny Starks, Aloe DeGuia, @haimson.bsky.social, and Tawanna Dillahunt) [Second Author]

Safety With Community: Technologies of Care, Connection, Collective Safety, and Mutual Aid for Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (with Denny Starks, Aloe DeGuia, @haimson.bsky.social, and Tawanna Dillahunt) [Second Author]

I have a book chapter on Trans Games that’s out in a new book called Epistemic Genres: New Formations of Play! Co-authored with @haimson.bsky.social, we talk about what makes a trans game based on our interviews with trans game devs www.bloomsbury.com/us/epistemic...

Artificial intelligence’s need to categorize the world may be the root of distrust among LGBTQ+ people.

The podcast @tabooscience.bsky.social by @smashleyhamer.bsky.social has been doing an excellent series about "Trans 101" lately. I was featured in a recent bonus episode about trans technologies, available on YouTube at the link below or wherever you get podcasts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYDJ...

Your fav tgirlie is in this "Trans 101" season of Taboo Science. Hear me talk about my mustache in this first episode and hear me talk about more as the season goes on. : ) Thanks again to @smashleyhamer.bsky.social for including me and many other trans voices! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMF_...

Book Announcement: Genres are social conventions ratified by creators and audiences, and so they are inherently political commitments that express our attachments and antagonisms to the cultural and political systems that organize our relationswith one another, our environments, and the world.

new LGBTQ Nation article by @faefyx.bsky.social featuring research by me (w/ @mayworms.info, @shoreingber.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social) "Not everyone wants to use [AI] – [yet] they are often required to use it without meaningful consent." www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/ai-d...

Very honored that my book has received the 2025 @labortechresearchnetwork.org Book Award! From LaborTech: "Trans Technologies is empirically rich, compelling in its theoretical framework, and a timely and important contribution at a time of heightened vulnerability for the trans community."

Honored to be part of the CCC workshop that led to this important report: Supporting At-Risk Users through Responsible Computing. Thanks to organizers and lead authors @pamwis.bsky.social, Katie Siek, Sunny Consolvo, @kevinrbbutler.ioc.exchange.ap.brid.gy & Tammy Toscos! cccblog.org/2025/11/13/a...

Tomorrow I'll be speaking as part of the Queer & Feminist Informatics Network launch event at University of Amsterdam 🌈 🙌 Thanks @drsbrooke.bsky.social and @dilab-uva.bsky.social at UvA for inviting me! More info and registration: www.qfinformatics.com

Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!

Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️‍⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟‍♀️🧑‍💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research! Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception. Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI. 🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025 📍 Edinburgh 👋 All welcome Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and... #data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer

Really looking forward to this upcoming @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social event, where the great @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and @haimson.bsky.social will be talking about emotion, gender, marginalisation and AI 🤩 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE! Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception ⬇️ sign up shorturl.at/QlMfx

This Wednesday I'm giving a virtual talk at the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York University @stsyorku.bsky.social ! Info on how to register is here: www.yorku.ca/research/its...

Incredible piece of work, the ingenuity in working around algorithimic censorship #cscw2025 #freepalestine

I put together this list of work on trans/queer topics at #CSCW2025 - lots of exciting papers to check out! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 padlet.com/haimson/tran...

You gotta watch out when @cfiesler.bsky.social organizes an ethics workshop at CSCW - you just might meet your future spouse there! Happened to me and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social 10 years ago 🥰 #CSCW2025 #CSCW2015

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward. "We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

Excited for my PhD advisee Senami Kojah, whose paper "Silencing the Voiceless: Social Media Content Moderation for At Risk Marginalized Populations in High-Stakes Violence and Human Rights Contexts in Nigeria" is the 1st paper presentation at #CSCW2025! Online program starts tomorrow at 7am CET.

If you're eligible, please consider participating in my PhD advisee @lameiro.bsky.social's interview study with online sex workers about non-consensual intimate deepfakes. Quick screening survey: bit.ly/deepfakesint... Please also help spread the word by sharing with potential participants!

#books are awesome.

If you talk to globally subcontracted workers who contribute to AI systems, you see not only the issues they experience at work but also how those conditions shape AI tools themselves. The labor conditions of these workers is so often overlooked as a contributing factor to overall AI model quality.

My reading volume dropped 60% on the tenure track compared to grad school! New Medium post on the realities of academic reading. I’d love to hear from others: how much are you actually able to read as an academic? medium.com/@haimson/how...

everyone transgender

"Don't feel bad if you're not reading every great book. No one ever has, and no one ever will."

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you found it useful! Around the same time, another group in our lab, led by @groceryheist.cc, published a related paper that you might also be interested in: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... I've also written about founders and their original goals (often not growth!)

Just read this incredible paper by @s0hw.bsky.social & @jeremydfoote.com: Why Do People Participate in Small Online Communities? The authors question the assumption that growth is always good, and instead show many benefits of small online communities. Highly recommended! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

This is effectively a ban on trans scientists getting federal funding, straight up. It’s also effectively a ban on all scientific work that includes trans people.

📣📣📣 New study shows: trans and disabled folks hate AI!

New article out in @theconversation.com! "When people at high risk of algorithmic harm such as trans people and disabled people are also those most wary of AI, that’s an indication for AI designers, developers and policymakers to reassess their efforts." theconversation.com/transgender-...

There are very good reasons for this! Very nice article @haimson.bsky.social ! Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows theconversation.com/transgender-...

I wrote an explainer for the impact of payment processor censorship on the LGBTQIA+ community. theconversation.com/thousands-of...

Currently obsessed with this paper. It’s chock-full of major insights and helpful recommendations and conceptual frames related to several different critical AI & labor themes of the moment. Not going to pick a favorite quote - just check it out!

Excited to read this!

Big congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social, who just defended his dissertation! It's been such an honor to work with Ben over the past 5 years, along with co-advisor @michaelannephd.bsky.social. Ben will start as Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, & I'm so excited to follow his research!

Many congrats to Dr. @bzfzhang.bsky.social on his successful dissertation defense! @haimson.bsky.social and I are proud advisors, and anticipate great things from him as an assistant professor at Stonybrook University.

Trans Technologies is available now! My book examines how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology. "An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." - Alex Hanna

With the publication of my new book Trans Technologies earlier this year, I pledged to donate half of my author royalties to a TBIPOC organization. This year I donated to @ruthelliscenter.bsky.social! ruthelliscenter.networkforgood.com/projects/227...