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Casting a Feminist Eye on Public Infrastructure

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CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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In this submission, I discuss my research on public restroom infrastructure and the distribution of hygiene resources throughout the city of Seattle. Through interviews and observation, I investigate differences to "customer convenience" across restrooms in public parks and community centers. As grassroots organizations begin to upend these systems through the collection and distribution of menstrual hygiene projects, they reorient whose resources are 'cared for' by the state. This discussion of public services and care serves as a foundation for technology field interventions meant to offer a means for collaboration across disparate maintenance practices and redefine the infrastructure of access for people with limited resources.

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CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

February 2017

472 pages

ISBN:9781450346887

DOI:10.1145/3022198

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3572334.3572399
Olgado BPei L(2022)Stewarding the Documental Afterlives of Refugee Tech InitiativesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35555606:CSCW2(1-23)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2022
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Tuli ASingh SNarula RKumar NSingh P(2022)Rethinking Menstrual Trackers Towards Period-Positive EcologiesProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3517662(1-20)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
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Tuli AChopra SSingh PKumar NBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Menstrual (Im)Mobilities and Safe SpacesProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3313831.3376653(1-15)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2020
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