Chelsea Barabas

Praxis for Otherwise Worlds: Expanding Emancipatory HCI through Black Studies

This paper positions Black Studies as a foundational analytic for Emancipatory HCI, showing how Afropessimism and Afrofuturism together model a praxis for designing otherwise worlds. Afropessimism offers a diagnostic lens for understanding how anti-Blackness structures the epistemic, institutional, and sociotechnical…