On May 22, 2026, nearly thirty UW scholars and champions of feminist technoscience from across three campuses and disciplines gathered at UW Press for a Feminist Technoscience Meet-Up hosted by Society + Technology at UW after guest-of-honor Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown’s public lecture, “What Does Law Mean in Crisis? How Crip Feminist Technoscience Will Save Us,” held the previous evening at Town Hall Seattle.
Rather than organizing the gathering around formal presentations or introductions, participants were invited to bring an “object of wisdom and wonder” that might glitch, jolt, or reconfigure technologies, systems, or infrastructures toward greater survival now and thriving then.
The prompt was inspired by Brown’s provocation, “in the shadow of an empire, in a world on fire, what if we could imagine—and build—otherwise?”
Participants took turns sharing their objects: a handmade deck of cards, a zine that imagines techno-futures, a Cambodian krama, a photograph of a beloved collaborator, a heavy calligraphy pen, stickers with instructions on box breathing, an interpreter and moment of translation, and Brown’s observation that they are a technology of contradiction.
Society + Technology at UW fosters greater cross-campus and cross-disciplinary collaborations on the social, societial, and ethical aspects of technology through community programs like this.
The Feminist Technoscience mixer was co-sponsored by UW Press, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS), the UW Tech Policy Lab, and CREATE.
Special thanks to the undergraduates from the Tech Policy Lab, which hosts Society + Technology at UW, who helped make the experience of gathering go smoothly: Vannary Sou, Ruth Karen Nakigozi, and Raani Nigam. And thanks to Brown for sharing their love for Ethiopian cuisine afterwards.