In this episode, Aisha Sobey , a research fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, explores how anti-fat bias shapes our digital lives. She discusses its effects on health technologies, social media, and generative AI, and explains why anti-fatness must be seen as a systemic issue. The conversation also highlights how ideas from fat liberation can help create more inclusive and fair technological design. Aisha Sobey is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre...

In this episode, we talk to Felienne Hermans , Professor of Computer Science Education at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, about how feminism can reshape the way we think about programming and technology. She explains how exclusion is built into the very structure of programming languages, which often center on English and Western norms, making it harder for non-English speakers to participate. Felienne introduces Hedy , a free, open-source programming language that supports over 70 languages,...