Shout out to co-authors Apryl William, Tawanna Dillahunt, and @haimson.bsky.social who guided me through the writing of this abstract ✨ So excited to present my poster in Madeira, Funchal, Portugal 🇵🇹 and elated to get to see even more wondrous work from my research communities this year~

Cheers!

Yes, I was that person/presenter at the session 😮‍💨 appreciate your support and for attending my talk though! 🙏🏽

Hello hello! Sorry to miss you! I’ll briefly be at the social impact session, would love to hand you a zine there!

Cataloging Augmented, Ambivalent Transgender Futures: Designing Inclusive AR Technologies for Trans Communities Through Speculative, Participatory Zine-Making

presented by @friak.bsky.social

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

in the Technology for People session, 4:20pm in G416+G417

#CHI2025

"'That Moment of Curiosity': Augmented Reality Face Filters for Transgender Identity Exploration, Gender Affirmation, and Radical Possibility" by @katbamkapow.bsky.social, Aloe DeGuia, @mayworms.info, @friak.bsky.social, @moniermel.bsky.social, Starks, Haimson

oliverhaimson.com/PDFs/Brewste...

"Cataloging Augmented, Ambivalent Transgender Futures: Designing Inclusive AR Technologies for Trans Communities Through Speculative, Participatory Zine-Making" by @friak.bsky.social, @katbamkapow.bsky.social, DeGuia, Starks, @mlakas.bsky.social, @mayworms.info, ++

oliverhaimson.com/PDFs/KhanCat...

Thank you thank you 🫡

Speaking of collaborators, make sure to also check out @katbamkapow.bsky.social‘s paper, “‘That Moment of Curiosity’: Augmented Reality Face Filters for Transgender Identity Exploration, Gender Affirmation, and Radical Possibility” 🌈👏🏽

Grateful to have been a co-authored on that as well!

This is my first CHI paper (as first author to boot!), and I’m so thankful to share this milestone with my lovely collaborators @katbamkapow.bsky.social , Aloe DeGuia, Denny Starks, Malaya Manacop, @mayworms.info and advisors Tawanna Dillahunt and @haimson.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Ahhh thank you so much Bruna! Miss you!!

I’m not saying we stop being vigilant, but as to keep the spiraling at bay:

-I still have my job (knock on wood), my communities, and /my/ research

-There’s no shortage of people and communities like us doing their part in what’s right, they have always been here, and will continue to be here

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Bonus: this pic was just a joke for myself but ended up going so hard I can't help but show off how scholarly my daughter looks