I completely agree about the difficulty of engaging questions of ideology, power, gender, race, etc. within traditional computer science programs. I also believe it is crucial that we make spaces for doing just this. In fact, Scalar (the authoring platform for this project) was built as a way to integrate into technological spaces the ideas of intersectionality that are key to much anti-racist and feminist of color practice. It developed from years of working with humanities scholars who ask questions about race, gender, social justice, etc. To the extent that a platform can be feminist in its conception, Scalar aspires to just that. We are so delighted to see it in use for this project.

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