We collaborate with scholars and practitioners to disseminate the analysis of technologies to broader audiences through design-based means, including working with images, analyzing and rethinking infrastructures, and creating new narratives about the ways that technologies solidify and transform the design of our societies.

Gendered Labor in Gig Economy Platforms

This image served to facilitate a presentation that explored how care-related gig economy platforms reinforce historical gendered and labor relations, perpetuating the design of a society that is increasingly individualized and disconnected.

This work was presented in:

  • Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2025 as part of the panel "(Un/Re)Making Gendered Platforms".

Motherhood, Labor and Digital Technologies

In this series of collage and scan-art pieces, and in collaboration with Dr. Angélica Martínez, we offer an analysis and a critique of the contemporary entanglement of motherhood and work, especially as digital technologies (re)produce the mandate that mothers need to excel both at home and at work. We study specific technologies and how they enable sites of mothering: Breast pumps, smart screens, and motherhood-related apps.

This work is featured in:

Mothers and the Gig Economy

In this series of collages, Dr. Angélica Martínez and I offer a commentary on the “Uberization of motherhood” through case studies of Gig Economy platforms that position mothers as another form of human capital. We study how reproductive labor is commercialized through digital platforms, while the ecosystem perpetuates traditional gender and racial divisions of labor.

This work is featured in:

  • Presentation: “Mother User - Mother Worker: The intersection of Motherhood, Labor, Design and Digital Platforms” LaborTech Research Network End of Year Showcase.

  • Conference Presentation “Mothers and the Gig Economy” The Museum of Motherhood’s Academic & Arts Conference 2025. See the presentation here.

Mother User → ← Mother Worker

In collaboration with Dr. Angélica Martínez, and Dr. Jennifer Denbow, author of "Reproductive Labor and Innovation", we hosted a panel in an event organized by the LaborTech Research Network, where we explored the connections between reproductive labor, productive labor, and how the design of digital platforms reinforces historical inequalities in the performance of care work.