CHI Stitch'n B*tch, A Feminist HCI Meetup
Paper i proceeding, 2026

This meetup invites feminist researchers and allies to gather for a relaxed textile crafting session (for all levels of expertise, including complete beginners) alongside informal discussion of our research, experiences, and visions for community-building in HCI. Building on a tradition of grassroots feminist CHI gatherings named #CHIversity since 2017-including zine-making, lunch meetups, curating lists of feminist and social justice-oriented papers published at CHI each year, and online programs during the pandemic, this session provides a safe and creative space to connect in times of increasing academic precarity and censorship. The format facilitates networking across institutions, disciplines, and career stages, while fostering dialogue that affirms feminist ideas as central to HCI. By offering an explicitly critical feminist environment as part of the CHI program, this meetup not only supports immediate exchange and connection, but also strengthens the long-term continuity of feminist community within CHI.

critical making

inclusive design

craft

embroidery

feminist hci

Författare

Nadia Campo Woytuk

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Nimra Ahmed

Universität Zürich

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Fiona Bell

University of Maryland

Benedetta Lusi

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Daisy O'Neill

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Michael Muller

IBM

Xinglin Sun

Tongji University

Amelia Lee Dogan

University of Washington

Adrian Petterson

University of Toronto

Ana O. Henriques

Universidade de Lisboa

Gisela Reyes-Cruz

University of Nottingham

Anupriya Tuli

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Angelika Strohmayer

Northumbria University

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings

795
9798400722813 (ISBN)

Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2026
Barcelona, Spain,

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Människa-datorinteraktion (interaktionsdesign)

Genusstudier

DOI

10.1145/3772363.3778787

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2026-05-18