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What's at Issue: Sex, Stigma, and Politics in ACM Publishing

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Teresa Almeida,

Judeth Oden Choi,

Kelly IrelandAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: alt07, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188400

Published: 20 April 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Because publishing with the ACM is essentially required to advance our careers, we must examine its practices critically and constructively. To this end, we reflect on our experience working with the ACM student publication Crossroads. We encountered rigid content limitations related to sex and sexuality, preventing some contributors from foregrounding their connection to political activism, and others from publishing altogether. We explore the underlying institutional and sociopolitical problems and propose starting points for future action, including developing a transparent content approval policy and new organizations for politically-engaged computing researchers, all of which should center the leadership of marginalized individuals.

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What's at Issue: Sex, Stigma, and Politics in ACM Publishing
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Computing organizations

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CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/3170427

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