NEW ARTICLE: It's not that LLMs are outright transphobic in their responses - in fact, they try to push against the basic stuff - but there's subtle anti-trans sentiment embedded throughout LLM responses that it's hard to see if you're not trans yourself. We can do better! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

We have two new papers at #chi2025, both of which got Honorable Mentions! 1) Epistemic Autonomy is a key priority for ethical, effective research with marginalized populations - @leahajmani.bsky.social @taliabhatt.itch.io and @michaelann.bsky.social write on why and how dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Our paper won an Honorable Mention at #chi2025! We call for CHI researchers to fundamentally shift away from our status quo of undermining the epistemic authority of marginalized users @michaelann.bsky.social @taliabhatt.itch.io @nusealab.bsky.social programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Exciting new #CHI25 preprint: “Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge” with stories & guidance on how to make HCI research more epistemically just from Leah Ajmani, @taliabhatt.itch.io and lab director @michaelann.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2501.14648

Hi Bluesky! Are you a) transfeminine and b) someone who’s experienced an attack in an online community that isolated you from that community? If so, I would love to speak to you; @michaelann.bsky.social and I are working on a project to better understand these attacks.

For more interesting research and commentary around sociotechnical systems, agency, and tech for marginalized communities, consider following SEALab's research team members and some of our collaborators/friends of the lab: go.bsky.app/Qebmwfu

I love this piece I wrote for @enkiducoin.bsky.social's blog a while back, and there's exciting news on the horizon around it. I have some very, very clever students around me who tend to take my rants and turn them into full CS research papers... thirdsexedinsurrection.substack.com/p/on-the-nee...