“The groups who are both marginalized and criminalized understand the oppressor more than the oppressor understands itself.” — Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon2025 #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“The groups who are both marginalized and criminalized understand the oppressor more than the oppressor understands itself.” — Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon2025 #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
If you weren’t able to make it to our Design From the Margins panel — or even if you did — here are some key takeaways.. #RightsCon2025 #TheDeCenter #RightsCon25 #designfromthemargins @loom4swana @rightscon @accessnow 🔏🔐
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you weren’t able to make it to our Design From the Margins panel — or even if you did — here are some key takeaways.. #RightsCon2025 #TheDeCenter #RightsCon25 #designfromthemargins @loom4swana @rightscon @accessnow 🔏🔐
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“The co-founder of OK Cupid said ‘If you feel like your matches are ugly, it’s probably because you are ugly.’” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“The co-founder of OK Cupid said ‘If you feel like your matches are ugly, it’s probably because you are ugly.’” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“DFM is about harnessing the experiences of those marginalized." — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“DFM is about harnessing the experiences of those marginalized." — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
"This is when criminalization becomes key because they [police or law enforcement] are not that creative when it comes to enforcing harms. We are the ones who are creative in resisting.” – Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"This is when criminalization becomes key because they [police or law enforcement] are not that creative when it comes to enforcing harms. We are the ones who are creative in resisting.” – Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
Understanding your oppressors or adversaries provides a method of reverse engineering and finding the gaps. If you are keeping these folks safe, everyone else by proxy will be kept safe.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Understanding your oppressors or adversaries provides a method of reverse engineering and finding the gaps. If you are keeping these folks safe, everyone else by proxy will be kept safe.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“We did get a lot of changes and shifts. The changes were smart and wanted globally.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“We did get a lot of changes and shifts. The changes were smart and wanted globally.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“The work needs to be transnational and internationalist at its core or it is bound to have fail points.” – Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“The work needs to be transnational and internationalist at its core or it is bound to have fail points.” – Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
“The designers and builders of tech need to start to take into consideration these contexts and criminalization, not just us.” — Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“The designers and builders of tech need to start to take into consideration these contexts and criminalization, not just us.” — Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
@the.de.center closed out @rightscon with a lively talk about designing dating apps from the margins. Dr. Apryl Williams and Afsaneh Rigot focused on different groups, but found many similarities. #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@the.de.center closed out @rightscon with a lively talk about designing dating apps from the margins. Dr. Apryl Williams and Afsaneh Rigot focused on different groups, but found many similarities. #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“The companies that cared, or pretended to care, they’re going to want to capture that market share of people who are concerned with equity.” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“The companies that cared, or pretended to care, they’re going to want to capture that market share of people who are concerned with equity.” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“There is an economy of criminalization… There’s a market behind it. There’s not a lot of great science behind it, but there is a market.” - Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
February 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
“There is an economy of criminalization… There’s a market behind it. There’s not a lot of great science behind it, but there is a market.” - Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“Just like you can read a person’s body language, you can read a companies UX design.” — Jessical Fjeld #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Just like you can read a person’s body language, you can read a companies UX design.” — Jessical Fjeld #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
"I was shocked that I was shocked, but what a lot of people experience on the apps is radicalized and gendered. So much of dating culture is about these hetero-patriarchal norms.” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"I was shocked that I was shocked, but what a lot of people experience on the apps is radicalized and gendered. So much of dating culture is about these hetero-patriarchal norms.” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“Those who are both marginalized and criminalized across the globe are experiencing very similar and overlapping forms of tactics used by policing transnationally.” —Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon2025 #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Those who are both marginalized and criminalized across the globe are experiencing very similar and overlapping forms of tactics used by policing transnationally.” —Afsaneh Rigot #RightsCon2025 #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
“You didn’t sit on the laurels of the documentation. You turned around and made changes with the companies.” — Jessica Fjeld #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“You didn’t sit on the laurels of the documentation. You turned around and made changes with the companies.” — Jessica Fjeld #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“We have to hone in on - and really understand - how policing really works.” - Afsaneh Rigot, in conversation with leading voices on transnational policing and human rights, moderated by @cybercrimelab.bsky.social #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
February 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
“We have to hone in on - and really understand - how policing really works.” - Afsaneh Rigot, in conversation with leading voices on transnational policing and human rights, moderated by @cybercrimelab.bsky.social #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“Why is it almost always on us to find ways to navigate these harms? The reason we came to app-cloaking is people were using external apps to do it themselves.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Why is it almost always on us to find ways to navigate these harms? The reason we came to app-cloaking is people were using external apps to do it themselves.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“It’s good customer service.” — Azza Nubi #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“It’s good customer service.” — Azza Nubi #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #Rightscon25 #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
“Regardless of where you are, you want to fall in love, you want to hook up. Regardless of how much policing is happening, you won’t stop existing.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Regardless of where you are, you want to fall in love, you want to hook up. Regardless of how much policing is happening, you won’t stop existing.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“The companies are not monoliths. Even within the companies, there are people who are values-aligned. And those people can be key to translate the message. So if we can find them and work with them, they can be key allies.” —Jessica Fjeld #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“The companies are not monoliths. Even within the companies, there are people who are values-aligned. And those people can be key to translate the message. So if we can find them and work with them, they can be key allies.” —Jessica Fjeld #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“DFM came from the work but it’s also a necessity. If we are not designing from this POV, all of our systems are flawed and vulnerable.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“DFM came from the work but it’s also a necessity. If we are not designing from this POV, all of our systems are flawed and vulnerable.” — Afsaneh Rigot #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“I think of this as capitalist espionage.” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
March 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“I think of this as capitalist espionage.” — Apryl Williams #rightscon25 #thedecenter #designfromthemargins 🔏 🔐
“We have now pushed Grindr to make stealthy notification sounds.” – Azza Nubi #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“We have now pushed Grindr to make stealthy notification sounds.” – Azza Nubi #RightsCon #TheDeCenter #designfromthemargins 🔏🔐