Re-Imagining Technofutures Lab
The Reimagining Technofutures lab brings together feminist and anti-colonial approaches to science and technology. We specialize in AI studies (data and computing studies) and interdisciplinary approaches to health. Centered on the expertise of those most impacted, our research seeks to bring justice to conversations on science, tech and ethics.
Diana Cage
Diana Cage is a PhD student in Performance Studies with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies. Her ongoing research explores early subcultural internet worlding and its relation to evolving queer and trans identitites, social movements, and sexual cultures. Her most recent writing project connects artificial intelligence, surveillance, and gender passing within a critical trans studies frame. Cage is part of the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis, where she works on reproductive justice and health inequity, and is a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do?, a collective of scholars, activists and artists working to end the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis. She received a Mellon Feminist Arts and Sciences Grant to support her Deep Lez Chatbot project, a queer feminist critique of conversational AI. Cage worked in queer media for a decade prior to academia and is the author of six nonfiction books on sex and sexuality, including Mind Blowing Sex (Hachette Book Group, 2012) and the Lambda Award-winning The Lesbian Sex Bible (Quarto, 2014). She has an MFA from San Francisco State University where she currently teaches in Women and Gender Studies.
Niv Karthikeyan
Niv Karthikeyan is a graduate student in the History of Science & Medicine, and Ethnicity, Race & Migration programs at Yale. She is preoccupied with questions of pain, data, and medical violence. Her research centers on how pain became medicalized and datafied in the United States - intimately shaping how the pain of some, particularly women of color, gets recognized (or not) and treated (or not) by medical professionals in the present. She is currently learning how to be a care-full teacher, and is experimenting with what radical access can look like in the space of the college classroom. It is giving her a lot of joy. Prior to graduate school, Niv earned a B.S. in Computer Science and History from Caltech, and worked in immigrants’ rights at the ACLU and in community memory-work at the South Asian American Digital Archive. Her work as an academic remains rooted in her commitments to community.
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Seon-Hye Moon
Seon-Hye Moon (she/her) is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at UC Davis. She is interested in the political economy of the early education workforce, labor & globalization, and women of color feminisms. Previously, she completed undergraduate work in English and Comparative Literature (Columbia), master's work in Ethnic Studies (SFSU), and further graduate studies in Education (UCD). Prior to graduate work, Seon-Hye worked in financial investment research for ten years. Her research draws deeply from this professional experience as well as her (ongoing) lived experience as a mom of two.
