FEBRUARY 26TH @1PM(AZ)/3PM(EST)
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Selene Yang (2020) posted to Twitter: “En una palabra o línea: ¿Qué es mapeo feminista/cartografía feminista? In one word or one line: what is feminist mapping/feminist cartography for you?” This seemingly simple question brought feminist mapmakers from around the world into conversation. Their answers ranged from singular words to multiple sentences. In this panel, we bring together the feminist mapmakers that responded to Yang’s post to better understand the past, present, and futures of feminist mapping.
Participants: Selene Yang, Amber Bosse, LaToya Gray, Kar Helena, and Meghan Kelly. 
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SELENE YANG
AMBER BOSSE
LATOYA GRAY
KAR HELENA
MEGHAN KELLY
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Selene Yang is a PhD. Candidate in Social Communications at the National University of La Plata. She's an unapologetic feminist and map lover. Her research grapples with the process of gathering, editing, and curating open geospatial data from a feminist perspective. She's a fellow for the Next Generation Program with the Latin American Initiative for Open Data and a former fellow with the Open Knowledge Foundation in the Frictionless Data Program. She currently works at the Wikimedia Foundation as a Global Diversity and Inclusion Specialist. She's the co-founder and coordinator of Geochicas OSM.
Dr. Amber Bosse is a collaborative cartography coach and the owner of The Map Therapy Clinic. Her work explores how cartographic efficacy, when taken up through a lens that considers privilege and trauma, can be leveraged in support of community liberation. She works with clients in both one-and-one and group settings to address the anxiety experienced around map design. Through customized programming, clients expand practical skill sets while developing their intuitive design aesthetics in ways that lead them to feel confident and grounded when showing their maps to the world. Amber can also be seen leading community GIS workshops or delivering public lectures where she discusses the transformative power of mapping with love. Connect with Amber on Twitter, her website, or her establishing YouTube channel.
Full links: https://twitter.com/mapbosse https://www.mapbosse.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrNgq7xeCNKNdO9bwMvSTug LaToya Gray Sparks is a life-long resident of Richmond, Virginia. She became interested in cartography when she realized the detrimental impact that early 20th century urban planning maps had on her community. LaToya is currently a graduate student in urban planning at Virginia Commonwealth University. In her spare time, LaToya is working on a few social justice projects focused on dismantling the legacy of redlining. She is also working on a map of historic sites and spaces that are sacred to the Black community in Richmond, Virginia.
Pronouns: She/her Planned Destruction Story Map: http://bit.ly/LaToyaGrayPlannedDestruction Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/latoya-gray-b6b24525/ Twitter: @latoyasgray Karla Helena Guzmán Velázquez is a feminist activist and anarchist geographer. She is part of an ecofeminist network in Mexico, member of Geobrujas, a community of women geographers, and she collaborates with autonomous networks in Mexico City, including self-managed projects and the Zapatista movement. As an independent workshop leader, she shares courses on body mapping, and popular education through artistic expressions ranging from ecology to feminism, and counter-cartographies. She studied human geography, a Master's in Sustainable Societies, and certificate courses in Latin American feminism, Transitional justice, Dance therapy, and a Diploma in social studies on bodies and emotions. She is currently studying herbalism with Hierba Crecida women's health cooperative and is pursuing interests in complexity sciences and systemic thinking to bring them into creative and radical geographies.
I’m a researcher and mapmaker at Dartmouth College and I work at the intersections of mapping and feminist theory. In my work, I apply feminist principles across spatial data, map design, and mapping processes to reveal and challenge systems of power, privilege, and oppression. This often takes place in collaborative workshop settings. I have applied this feminist mapping lens to migration stories, border symbolization, tiny map icons, incarceration and policing, the climate crises, and housing insecurity.
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