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ABSTRACT
This article introduces the term “queer usability” to technical communicators. Queer usability is the anticipation of marginalized communities and the application of this anticipation to user-centered design to create a digital space in which marginalized populations are centered. In short, queer usability anticipates and centers marginalized users and their anticipated needs. To ethically create social media worlds, we must embrace and implement queer usability.
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Mari E. Ramler
Mari E. Ramler is an Assistant Professor of Professional and Technical Communication in the English department at Tennessee Tech University. As both a tech comm futurist and posthuman ethicist, she has written about the body and its digital traces for Capacious, Constellations, Screen Bodies, and Textshop Experiments. Her current book project theorizes breast rhetorics.