Steven Frost

Designed & Discovered Euphoria: Insights from Trans-Femme Players' Experiences of Gender Euphoria in Video Games | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Our work on #transgender gender euphoria in #games is out: Designed & Discovered Euphoria: Insights from Trans-Femme Players' Experiences of Gender Euphoria in Video Games!

(Open access for anyone interested.) #chi2025

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Excited to be part of #CHI2025 in Yokohama! Come check out our Experimental Weaving demo at the Interactivity sessions — hands-on woven textiles, new weaving software, and creative research tools from the Unstable Design Lab. April 28–30 — see you there!

Only took another 25 years to legalize the living situation I and nearly every other student living off campus had to adopt to afford living in the city circa 2000.

A link will be in your inbox tomorrow morning if you're signed up.

Alt text: A promotional graphic for the Experimental Weaving Talk Series featuring Ricki Dwyer. The background includes a grayscale woven textile with frayed edges, folded in a circular pattern. The text overlay contains event details: Feb 5 | 9 AM MST | Zoom. Below, it lists Dwyer’s credentials: Artist & Educator, Bronx Museum AIM Fellow / Parsons. The name “Ricki Dwyer” is displayed in bold blue text, while the rest of the information is in black and gray on a light blue background with diagonal green stripes.

Join us for our Experimental Weaving Talk with Ricki Dwyer on Wed, Feb 5, at 9 AM MST! ✨

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Dwyer, a Brooklyn-based artist & Bronx Museum AIM Fellow, explores weaving as world-building & somatic practice.

#ExperimentalWeaving #WeavingArt #FiberArts

That's a "yes, and" situation.

The Media Archaeology Lab The Media Archaeology Lab is a hands-on space housing working media technologies spanning 12 decades.

The Media Archeology Lab will have a drop-in reception for their new opening in the CASE building on the CU Boulder campus on Friday January 31st from 12pm to 4pm. Stop by and experience life outside the internet! www.mediaarchaeologylab.com

Happy December! who wants tshirts?

oh hi we're doing t-shirts again, here's the pre-order info: open.substack.com/pub/mediaarc...

The Treachery of Images Painting by René Magritte

Front page of tomorrow's NYT:

Come be our colleague!

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

The Great Creator Reset The TikTok ban isn't just a platform reconfiguration, it will reshape the political leaning of the creator economy and permanently alter whose voices get heard online.

The TikTok ban permanently reshapes the ideological tilt of the online creator landscape towards the right. Cheering for it in any way is extremely shortsighted www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...

“Lord take Teams not TikTok”

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I'm thrilled that my paper "Slay the Runway: Activating Community Spaces for LGBTQIA Youth Through Fashion and Performance" was accepted to #ICA25. Now have to figure out what I'm going where. Maybe a look from last year's show?

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hey #commsky folks: while waiting for the #ica25 outcome, now is a good time to follow the International Communication Association here, so that 🦋 is the premier platform for the conference:

@icahdq.bsky.social.

They convinced me to nap between appointments. It wasn't hard.

Dog sitting and enjoying a brief respite from winter weather. #boulder #colorado

I know these are just rebranded Lucky Charms but something about this cereal 🥣 is so tempting. #squishmallows

This morning was bonkers! I almost ate it walking the dog because I was trying to snap photos. Turns out the best ones were from our bedroom.

Final grades are officially posted—on the longest night of the year, no less. Fitting for what might have been the longest semester of my life. How did this semester feel for you? 🌙📚

Another accidental Adorno find today. The apocryphal single copy of “Music in Radio,” written for the Princeton Radio Research Project in 1938, hidden in an untitled black binder. This analysis, among other disagreements with quantitative research, infamously got Adorno expelled from the project.

What a gem! Congratulations Josh.

#colorado weavers have a deadline.

The community weaving we started at Rocky Mountain Equality's queer fiber night and finished at the NoBo library is almost done. #queer #trans #fiber

We're almost done our first coded weaving. We made it in collaboration with community members at the new NoBo Library maker space. @boulderlibrary.bsky.social .

Backstrap loom weaving at @boulderlibrary.bsky.social this week. I challenged patrons to make chunky and funky scarves. They listened!!

Hey #boulder friends, don't forget to cast your vote for the library cafe's new name. Good news! This ballot is shorter than we're used to in Colorado: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8122961/T...

"The future didn't disappear overnight. Berardi's phrase 'the slow cancellation of the future' is so apt because it captures the gradual yet relentless way in which the future has been eroded over the last 30 years." --Mark Fisher (still ruminating about imaginary networks as #othernetworks)