Decoding Stigma
We are building a cross-institutional coalition of laborers, futurists, advocates, artists, designers, technologists, researchers, teachers, and students who want to compel conversations about sex and sex work at the tech school.
Decoding Stigma
We are building a cross-institutional coalition of laborers, futurists, advocates, artists, designers, technologists, researchers, teachers, and students who want to compel conversations about sex and sex work at the tech school.
To prioritize sexual autonomy as a necessary ethics question for researchers and technologists.
To design a liberatory future in which sexually stigmatized voices are amplified and celebrated.
The Decoding Stigma thinking group bridges the gap between sex workers, academics, technologists, and anyone who holds multiple of these identities.
Currently, thinkers span across multiple universities, representing departments of tech, design, law, public health, anthropology, and clinical social work.
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Decoding Stigma is cultivating an ongoing open source syllabus spearheaded by sex workers and allies. This space is a living learning hub of readings, resources, citable research, articles, and teaching toolkits.
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Gabriella Garcia
A writer and poetic technologist focused on networked subcultures. Current work at NYU ITP focuses on speculative narrative and interactive world-building as a form of research documentation. Has worked for Hopes&Fears, Cool Hunting, AltEsc, Sumzine Magazine, and more.
Livia Foldes
Working in the latent space between art, design, technology, and activism. Currently at Parsons focusing on consentful tech and affective labor.
Danielle Blunt
Miss Blunt is an NYC-based Dominatrix, a full-spectrum doula and sex worker rights activist. She studies power dynamics and researches the intersection of public health, sex work and equitable access to tech. She enjoys watching her community thrive and making men cry.
Zahra Stardust
Dr Zahra Stardust is a socio-legal scholar working at the intersections of human rights, sexuality, public health, labour organising and criminal law.