💜 Love Notes to Intersectional AI
Many, many people believe better AI futures are possible. We hope you draw inspiration for IAI from a wide range of practitioners already in action! Here is an ever-growing list of projects, tools, resources to learn from. Some of these are AI– or tech-adjacent, but we think all of them are cool ways to get into thinking about tech differently.
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Wishlist...
- More international examples: would love to know more from outside US & EU!
- Local and in-person examples from where you live
Intersectional Tools & Resources
Approaches & Frameworks
- Not My AI
- Indigenous AI
- AI Decolonial Manyfesto
- If AI, Then Feminist
- Indigenous AI
- Queer.AI "conversational agents for the advancement of new eroticisms
- Guidelines for Checking Essential Properties of AI-Based Systems in German
- Feminist Tech Policyby superrr
- Dreaming Beyond AI "a space for critical and constructive knowledge, visionary fiction & speculative art and community-organising"
- AIxDesign "nourishing alternative, feminist, + participatory approaches to ai for the rest of us"
- Katrin Fritsch: Towards an Emancipatory Understanding of Widespread Datification
- Feminist Internet "There is no feminism, only possible feminisms. There is no internet, only possible internets."
- Algo.Rules
- Civic Data Library of Context
- Afrotechtopia
- Data for Black lives
- MOTIF feminist futures
- Superrr "building diverse & equal futures in tech and beyond"
- Data Justice Lab
- Our Data, Ourselves and the works of Tactical Tech
- Interspecies Internet
- Fix the Glitch Toolkit 2.0 "Helping to End Online Gender Based Violence for Black Women"
- Framework for Participatory Data Stewardship
Tutorials
- Elements of AI
- fast.ai course Practical Deep Learning for Coders, Code-First Intro to NLP, Practical Data Ethics
- Why.AI dossier debunking myths in plain language
- Dive Into Deep Learning open source book, technical
- Generative Engine exploration of VQGAN-CLIP
- @TheAnnaLytical Anna Lytical Tutorial Glamorous Javascript: Makeup and Coding Edition #tutorial
Projects & Examples
- Drag Deep Fakes Screen Walks. (2021, April 7) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQSSl533rb8 #vision #deepfake #gan
- Library of Missing Datasets #datacollection by Mimi Onuoha
- Glaze Project disguise your artwork
- Syb Trans Voice Interface
- Feminist Guide to AI Bias (chatbot)
- Designing Feminist Chatbots by Josie Swords @swordstoyoung
Teaching
- Critical Coding Cookbook
- DecarceratingTheClassroom
- TextGenEd Book of prompts for teaching critically with text-generating AI, edited by Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, Carly Schnitzler
Communities
- Feminist.AI
- Color Coded LA
- JUST AI
- Coding Rights
- Black in AI
- Virtual Care Lab
- School for Poetic Computation
- Lurk
Local: Berlin
- CreativeCode.Berlin
- School of Machines, Making, & Make-Believe classes on art, tech, & design
Tools
- Mukurtu CMS data platform for Indigenous communities to share and protect cultural heritage
- Switching.Software #deplatforming
- Anti Capitalist Software License
- In Solidarity
- Threads anonymity in forums tool by Berkman Klein
- Tiny Tools Directory gathers open source tools, small, free or experimental #compendium #collection #tool
- Read the Feminist Manual chrome add-on to swap pronouns to gender-neutral
Zines, Principles, Readings, and...
- Internet Teapot and Algorithms of Late Capitalism Zines, esp. special edition: Reconstructing AI
- Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies by Coding Rights' Joana Varon and Clara Juliano
- A is for Another: A Dictionary of AI
- A New AI Lexicon from AI Now Institute, specifically the first sequence of CARE
- Detroit Digital Justice Coalition Principles Access, Participation, Common Ownership, Healthy Communities
- Tiny Tech Zines
- Our Data Bodies' Digital Defense Playbook
- Feminist Data Set & Toolkit Caroline Sinders
- How to Write Non-Violent Creative Code
- We Need to Talk AI: A Comic Essay
- Feminist Principles of the Internet
- Feminist Data Manifest-NO
- Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation
- Women in Computation, Portable Syllabus
- A People's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Mimi Onuoha and Mother Cyborg (a.k.a. Daina Nucera)
- coveillance toolkit
- Networks of One's Own publishing an issue as a hardware-software stack with feminist server principles etc. Issue 2, NoOO: Three Takes on Taking Care
- Feminist Infrastructure Zine in English and en Español
- Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures Zine
Web/print tools
- Bindery Javascript Library or Paged.js or html2print by OSP
- Markdown Cheatsheet
- ZineMachine
- P5.js
- p5.js Contributors Zine
- Decent Patterns "Decentralization Off the Shelf" (DOTS) offers design patterns for rethinking user applications
- In Solidarity github app for ensuring more inclusive language in technical documents and code
- How to make a zine
Beloved readings
- Ahmed, Sara. Feminist Killjoy Survival Kit.
- brown, adrienne maree. Emergent Strategies.
- Nakamura, Lisa. 2014. "Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Life." The American Studies Association.
Historical zines of interest & related reading
- Cyberfeminist Index #cyberfeminism #compendium #collection
- Radical Software
- People's Computer Company Newsletter
- Computer Lib Dream Machines
- 2600 Hacker Magazine
- Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies, by Cait McKinney
- Whole Earth Index "access to tools, ideas, and practices," an archive of Whole Earth Catalogs and offshoots between 1970–2002, including the Whole Earth Software Review and other couunterculture takes on technology
- Homebrew Server Club