Purpose: Recently, interest in usability has grown in the technical communication (TC) field,
but we lack a current cohesive literature review that reflects this new growth. This article …

This paper provides analysis and insight from a collaborative process with a Canadian sex
worker rights organization called Stella, l'amie de Maimie, where we reflect on the use of …

Design toolkits that aim to to promote equity offer designers simplified approaches to
creating more equitable technology. However, it is important to understand how equity is …

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 …

Churches have historically played an important role in Black American communities,
catalyzing the pursuit of aims such as social justice, community organization, and health …

This article proposes resistance as a form of participation in user experience settings. It
details a study to include people living with HIV in codesigning a health education …

Introduction: Design thinking has gained popularity over the last few decades due to its
promise for social innovation and user-centered solutions for technical communication …

This article argues that through embodied presentations and the multimodal, international
and intercultural affordances of YouTube, the rhetoric of Black hair care YouTubers is …

For decades, sexual violence prevention and sexual consent have been a recurrent topic on
college campuses and in popular media, most recently because of the success of the# …

In this paper we report insights from the design and delivery of a process that invited distinct
groups of citizens to co-develop and apply social impact assessment criteria for the purpose …