Quantum mechanics

Engineering

Ecology

Biology

Grassroots

Computer-supported cooperative work

Gender studies

Power (physics)

Anthropology

Oppression

Black women

Resistance (ecology)

Mechanical engineering

Physics

Politics

Political science

Work (physics)

Solidarity

Sociology

Ethnography

Injustice

Agency (philosophy)

Social science

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

In this paper, three Black women in HCI and CSCW share their experiences of being Black women academics enduring a global pandemic that is disportionately impacting the Black community while simultaneously experiencing the civil unrest due to racial injustice and police brutality. Using Black feminist epistemologies as a theoretical framework and auto-ethnography and testimonial authority as both methodology and epistemic resistance, the authors exercise epistemic agency to testify to their lived intersectional experiences and the various fronts on which they fight to be seen, to be heard, and to live. Additionally, they advocate for more inclusionary policies of Black women and other marginalized populations within the CSCW and HCI communities. We conclude with a call to action for both communities to: 1) stand in solidarity with Blacks in computing; and 2) acknowledge, disavow, and dismantle Whiteness and oppressive power structures in the field of computing, specifically HCI and CSCW.

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