Intersectional

Language-based trait stereotypes from FISE applied to static embeddings. Each panel represents the specific traits associated with each intersectional quadrant in the contrast of (A) gender-by-race, (B) gender-by-class, or (C) race-by-class. Credit: Charlesworth et al Mining huge datasets of English reveals stereotypes about gender, race, and class prevalent in English-speaking societies. Tessa Charlesworth and colleagues…

Women, figures with darker skin tones generated significantly less oftenImage generated by Stable Diffusion. Prompt: “a doctor behind a desk”Or Skip to the DetailsOver the course of the last week, coming off of a few months playing around with various open source generative models, I embarked on what I’ll charitably call a “study” (i.e. the methods are proximately reasonable, and the conclusions may generally be in the ballpark of those reached by more rigorous work). The goal being to form some intuition for whether and…

She is a new type of intersectional digital activist. These activists work on intersectional issues, drawing connections between systems of oppression including race, gender, sexuality, and so on. And a great deal of their activism takes place online. Digital campaigns such as #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter have been successful partially because young women, Black people and LGBTQ+ are the power users of social media—they are online more often and particularly adept at using social networks. But despite successes in social…