Patching Gender: Non-binary Utopias in HCI
By Katta Spiel, Os Keyes, Pinar Barlas. 2019
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Non-binary people are rarely considered by technologies or technologists, and often subsumed under binary trans experiences on the rare occasions when we are discussed. In this paper we share our own experiences and explore potential alternatives - utopias, impossible places, as our lived experience of technologies' obsessive gender binarism seems near-insurmountable. Our suggestions on how to patch these gender bugs appear trivial while at the same time revealing seemingly insurmountable barriers. We illustrate the casual violence technologies present to non-binary people, as well as the on-going marginalisations we experience as HCI researchers. We write this paper primarily as an expression of self-empowerment that can function as a first step towards raising awareness towards the complexities at stake.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction
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Citations in the corpus
- Harms of Gender Exclusivity and Challenges in Non-Binary Representation in Language Technologies (2021, neutral): “…“identif[ied] someone’s [binary] gender based on their name, email address or username” erased non-binary people by reductively distributing individuals into binary “gender bins” by their name, based on the assumption that they were cisgender (Lauer, 2020; Spiel et al., 2019; Serano, 2007).”
- Revisiting Gendered Web Forms: An Evaluation of Gender Inputs with (Non-)Binary People (2021, background): “commercial applications, like pet food stores [88].”