ICLS Hybrid Symposium | iHY-8_EQUITY-RESEARCH | Advancements in Equity Research in Computing Through Feminist Embodiment Computation Framework

This symposium introduces Feminist Embodied Computation (FEC), a framework advancing equity in computing by centering epistemological change, identity, and embodiment. Five papers enact FEC across teaching and learning: reframing code as culturally and politically situated discourse; tracing a CS teacher’s journey where e-textiles and material histories make embodiment epistemic; presenting an Indigenous Hawaiian learner’s “rightful presence” through community-centered data science; modeling physics through dance to broaden what counts as rigorous knowledge; and theorizing subversive computational literacy that challenges dominant values of efficiency and abstraction. Collectively, the session demonstrates concrete practices and theoretical moves that honor lived experience, emotion, and culture as central to computation, offering actionable pathways to transform who participates in computing, how knowledge is made, and what computing can become.