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September 15, 2026 Musings

Spotlit on VIA for the WI’s Eleventy-First Birthday

The WI helped me remember who I am. It showed me what women can do when we come together. Now I want us to bring that collective power to AI so that we don’t repeat the mistakes of technology’s past.

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August 23, 2026 Musings

What Do You Need? From Grassroots AI to HCI Research

A grassroots AI community built around one simple question — “What do you need?” — has led to a full research paper in Interacting with Computers. We all need to be seen and heard. We all matter. The spaces we build outside academia and industry are the real deal. The only deal. They are real life.

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August 4, 2026 Musings

Smoggie Queen (2): Hairclips and WhatsApp Stickers

I arrived hoping to learn some tips and tricks of the trade that would make me think: Ah, that’s the secret. Perhaps a good, fresh-looking foundation that would make my skin glow, a clever way to dress my petite five-foot frame in colours other than black…

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July 14, 2026 Musings

From lost to dazzled (with merch and AI)

Looking back at the months of effort it took me to create my story and looking for an easy way to demonstrate the speed of AI, I fed the 20 key ‘storyboard’ points of my life, just 283 words, into Gemini Notebook LM.

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July 5, 2026 Musings

You Can’t Fall Off: From Social Media Burnout to Buzzing New Designers and AI for ourselves

Well… it happened. Just one week into promoting my AI course and I hit complete social media burnout and spent

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