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Love Notes to Intersectional AI

Many, many people believe better AI futures are possible and your inspiration for IAI can draw on a wide range of practitioners already in action!

We're creating an ever-growing master list of projects, tools, resources to learn from. We'd also like to highlight and discuss a few in detail here...

Creative Code Collective Resource Hub is an interactive, sortable, more comprehensive version of this effort. Please add any and all items listed here to the CCC hub via this sheet and the zine will highlight and describe a select few as space allows.

Wishlist...

• Add'l Berlin spaces—would love to know more!
• other international examples—would love to know more from outside US & EU!

Intersectional Tools & Resources

Approaches

• Not My AI
• Indigenous AI
• AI Decolonial Manyfesto
• If AI, Then Feminist
• 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

Learning AI: Tutorials

• Elements of AI
• fast.ai course Practical Deep Learning for Coders, Code-First Intro to NLP, Practical Data Ethics [fast.ai]
• Why.AI dossier debunking myths in plain language
• Katrin Fritsch: Towards an Emancipatory Understanding of Widespread Datification
• Dive Into Deep Learning open source book, technical
• Generative Engine exploration of VQGAN-CLIP
• DIY AI: ML5 Community Toolkit

Examples/Projects

(how should categories be organized?)

Computer Vision

• Drag Deep Fakes Screen Walks. (2021, April 7). Screen Walk with Jake Elwes, Zizi and Me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQSSl533rb8 #vision #deepfake #gan
• Library of Missing Datasets #datacollection (Mimi Onuoha, see also A People's Guide to AI, no longer available)

Conversational Agents

• Syb Trans Voice Interface
  • collection of data practices
  • disclosure of team, iterative process
  • personality
• Feminist Internet "There is no feminism, only possible feminisms. There is no internet, only possible internets."
• Feminist Guide to AI Bias (chatbot)
• Designing Feminist Chatbots by Josie Swords @swordstoyoung

Zines, Principles, Readings, and...

• 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
• 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

Tools

• Anti Capitalist Software License
• In Solidarity
• Threads anonymity in forums tool by Berkman Klein

Teaching

• Critical Coding Cookbook
• DecarceratingTheClassroom

Orgs

• Feminist.AI
• Color Coded LA
• JUST AI
• Coding Rights'
• Black in AI

Local: Berlin

• CreativeCode.Berlin

Beloved Readings

• Nakamura, Lisa. 2014. "Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Life." The American Studies Association.

  "Indian-identified traits and practices such as painstaking attention to craft and an affinity for metalwork and textiles were deployed to position the Navajo on the cutting edge of a technological moment precisely because of their possession of a racialized set of creative cultural skills in traditional, premodern artisanal handwork." (Nakamura 2014, 925)

• Feminist Killjoy Survival Kit, by Sara Ahmed
• Emergent Strategies, by adrienne marie brown

Not quite AI but in the spirit of Intersectional Tech

Web/Code Tools

Many of these were used to make this here zine collection

• Bindery Javascript Library or Pages.js or html2print by OSP
• Markdown Cheatsheet
• ZineMachine
• [P5.js]
• p5.js Contributors Zine

Misc tech & publishing FYIs

• How to make a zine

Historical zines of interest & related reading

• 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

Intersectional Organizations & Resources

• Mukurtu CMS data platform for Indigenous communities to share and protect cultural heritage
• @TheAnnaLytical Anna Lytical Tutorial Glamorous Javascript: Makeup and Coding Edition #tutorial
• Tiny Tools Directory gathers open source tools, small, free or experimental #compendium #collection #tool
• Cyberfeminist Index #cyberfeminism #compendium #collection
• Switching.Software #deplatforming
• Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies by Coding Rights' Joana Varon and Clara Juliano
• Feminist Data Manifest-NO
• Internet Teapot and Algorithms of Late Capitalism Zines, esp. special edition: "[D/Reconstructing AI"]
• Algo.Rules
• Civic Data Library of Context
• Afrotechtopia
• Data for Black lives
• MOTIF feminist futures
• Superrr "building diverse & equal futures in tech and beyond"
• School of Machines, Making, & Make-Believe classes on art, tech, & design
• Data Justice Lab
• Read the Feminist Manual chrome add-on to swap pronouns to gender-neutral
• Interspecies Internet

• Homebrew Server Club
• Lurk
• SFPC
• Fix the Glitch Toolkit 2.0 "Helping to End Online Gender Based Violence for Black Women"
• 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 partially en Español
• Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures Zine
• Our Data, Ourselves and the works of Tactical Tech
• Virtual Care Lab

Credits

• Credits & thanks: MA+P, CCC & ppl, HIIG, HiDW, HaCCS, F.AI, Ch510, P5js
• Creative Code Collective Resource Hub