Palashi
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Publications/Writing

I have published in Associated Computing Machinery (ACM) venues like Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, in addition to writing journalistic and public facing pieces. I have organized panels and presented at different conferences across information science, feminist studies, history, science and technology studies. I am an active member of some incredible anti-caste communities with whom I have the privilege of organizing, theorizing and imagining anti-caste futures of technology. I am also a creative writer and I’m always looking to collaborate and expand my scholarship to new venues and spaces!

Peer-reviewed

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Interrupting Merit, Subverting Caste: Navigating Caste In “Casteless” Worlds Of Computing (Best Paper Award)
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Counting To Be Counted: Anganwadi Workers and Digital Infrastructures Of Ambivalent Care (Diversity and Inclusion Award) (Full paper linked here)
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Caste Capital On Twitter: A Formal Network Analysis Of Caste Relations Among Indian Politicians. (Full paper linked here)
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Birds of a Caste: How Caste Hierarchies Manifest in Retweet Behavior of Indian Politicians. (Full paper linked here)

Workshop papers

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Caste, Capital And Computing: Locating Relations of Caste and Gender within the Political Economy of Computing
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Interactive Tabletops Aren’t Going To Situate Themselves
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Against the Odds - Feminist Theory and Practice in India

Conference papers

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Taming the Giant: Brahmanical imaginaries in oral history narratives of IT luminaries
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Surpanakha Studying Up, Down and Sideways
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Traveling Inequalities - Politics of Aspirations in ICT4Development work

Organized panels

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“Caste as/of Technoscience” at the annual gathering of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S2021)

Media & Press

  • Birds of Brahmanical Feather Flock Together: How MPs Reinforce a Casteist Network on Twitter
  • Dalit MPs less likely to be heard on Twitter than upper castes

Invited talks

Jan 2024: Invited talk in Dept. of Informatics, University of California Irvine

Panelist for the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Research and Writing organized by C.A.R.E

Jul 2023: Invited talk in School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University

Apr 2023: Invited talk in Dept. of Media and Information, Michigan State University

Feb 2023: Invited talk in School of Information, University of Toronto

Jan 2023: Invited talk in Dept. of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington

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Keynote speaker for the online course on The Digital Everyday organized by Point of View
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Moderator in the Anti-Caste Histories and Solidarities Lectures by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
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Panelist at the Ayyankali Conference organized by Nalanda Labs
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Consultation and Talk at IBM Quantum
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Speaker at Muktiparv organized by Digital Nalanda

Other writing

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Letters to the internet
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Traveling, But Not Arriving - Hieroglyphics of Caste in Computing

Contributions

  • I contributed to and reviewed this brilliant syllabus on Critical Caste and Technology Studies