Patchworking Networks of Support: On the Digital Successes and Challenges of Women- and Minority-Owned Restaurant Businesses | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Syst...

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Forgot to post about this one, but yesterday, Cameron Moy presented for our paper (with Matt Bui and Julie Hui), Patchworking Networks of Support: On the Digital Successes and Challenges of Women- and Minority-Owned Restaurant Businesses at #CHI2026 in Barcelona.

Navigating Safety and Technology: The Everyday Safety Labor of Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Comp...

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Go Denny Starks AGAIN! They just presented our paper (with Aloe Deguia, Tawanna Dillahunt, and @haimson.bsky.social), Navigating Safety and Technology: The Everyday Safety Labor of Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States at #CHI2026 in Barcelona.

Safety With Community: Technologies of Care, Connection, Collective Safety, and Mutual Aid for Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (TBIPOC) | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on H...

Read our full paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Go Denny Starks! They just presented our paper (with Aloe Deguia, Tawanna Dillahunt, and @haimson.bsky.social), Safety With Community: Technologies of Care, Connection, Collective Safety, and Mutual Aid for Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (TBIPOC) at #CHI2026 in Barcelona.

Safety With Community: Technologies of Care, Connection, Collective Safety, and Mutual Aid for Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (TBIPOC) | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on H...

This morning is the BIPOC Sovereignty and Care session at #CHI2026! My PhD advisee Denny Starks will be presenting two papers, both co-authored by @hibbythach.com, Aloe DeGuia, and Tawanna Dillahunt:

links to the two papers:
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I had the pleasure of presenting my co-authors (Sena Kojah, @haimson.bsky.social, and @michaelannephd.bsky.social) and I’s paper, The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts at #CHI2026 in Barcelona.

The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

This morning at #CHI2026, @hibbythach.com will be presenting our paper "The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts," led by Senami Kojah and co-authored with @michaelannephd.bsky.social.

paper link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Spotted my PhD advisees @hibbythach.com and Denny Starks hard at work at the #CHI2026 conference hotel 💻💻

Crying, screaming, throwing up /j

#CHI2026

@cal-liang.bsky.social I love you for using this Gia Gunn meme #CHI2026

Epistemic Genres This anthology brings together scholars from around the world to theorize and explore “epistemic genres” of digital games, which are defined by the social uses…

@hibbythach.com and I have a chapter in this new book "Epistemic Genres: New Formations of Play" - our chapter is "The Trans Game Genre: Sometimes Queer, Always Trans" 🎮 🏳️‍⚧️

(book is expensive but hopefully avail. in libraries; if you can't access, get in touch!)

www.bloomsbury.com/us/epistemic...

Navigating Safety and Technology: The Everyday Safety Labor of Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States by Denny Starks, @hibbythach.com, Aloe DeGuia, Tawanna Dillahunt #CHI2026
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The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts by Senami Kojah, @hibbythach.com, @michaelannephd.bsky.social #CHI2026
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Safety With Community: Technologies of Care, Connection, Collective Safety, and Mutual Aid for Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (TBIPOC) by Denny Starks, @hibbythach.com, Aloe DeGuia, Tawanna Dillahunt #CHI2026
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Been streaming more : ‘)

twitch.tv/hibbybobibby

Hibby Thach

If you're looking for someone to hire for a research position this summer, look no further than @hibbythach.com! This PhD student has it all: methods, ideas, motivation, community-based approach ++

keywords: live streaming, content moderation, games, trans tech, online identity

www.hibbythach.com

This year is going so much better for me so far interpersonally, but it's still a struggle!

Healing is non-linear and I hope this can be a reminder to others as well that it's okay to not feel okay, especially right now

Letting y'all know, if you see me in public, please be patient with me

A girlie who went through a traumatic year on top of everything else going on in the world is just trying to get by and she might be low energy or anxious lol

🤡Meet Hibby Thach! 🐰 (Playful Horizons Featured Speaker Series) YouTube video by UAlbertaArts

I gave this talk for UAlberta’s Playful Horizons series last year, which was just released earlier this month! In it, I talk about my research on content moderation, live-streaming, and about my PNGTuber, Hoppy. : )

Thanks to @persephone.blue for inviting me!

youtu.be/eAr3LpD6irw?...

Dating While Trans ft. Julia Serano | When Attraction Meets Stigma YouTube video by Taboo Science

Watch me talk about dating while trans (AND BE ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION AWAY FROM JULIA SERANO?!?!?!) on @tabooscience.bsky.social's new episode about transness and dating. : )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mb4...

Patchworking Networks of Support: On the Digital Successes and Challenges of Women- and Minority-Owned Restaurant Businesses (with @cmoy11.bsky.social, Matt Bui, and Julie Hui) [Third Author]

The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts (with Senami Kojah, @haimson.bsky.social, and @michaelannephd.bsky.social) [Second Author]

Navigating Safety and Technology: The Everyday Safety Labor of Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States (with Denny Starks, Aloe DeGuia, @haimson.bsky.social, and Tawanna Dillahunt) [Second Author]

Safety With Community: Technologies of Care, Connection, Collective Safety, and Mutual Aid for Transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (with Denny Starks, Aloe DeGuia, @haimson.bsky.social, and Tawanna Dillahunt) [Second Author]

Also!

I’m on four conditionally accepted papers to CHI 2026 in Barcelona. : )

They are as follows:

I have a book chapter on Trans Games that’s out in a new book called Epistemic Genres: New Formations of Play!

Co-authored with @haimson.bsky.social, we talk about what makes a trans game based on our interviews with trans game devs

www.bloomsbury.com/us/epistemic...

I forgot to post multiple updates here oops so here we go: