title: FreeForm: Informal form design on a large interactive display surface

authors: Plimmer, Beryl

subjects: Sketching

abstract: This demonstration shows the tool we have developed for hand-sketching user interfaces. Our motivation for developing this tool is to provide an environment where novice programmers can move freely along the design continuum from informal low-fidelity prototypes to completed formal designs. A low-cost digital whiteboard is used to provide a shared work space for Freeform. The tool is integrated into a programming IDE and provides penbased sketching and editing, a storyboard, run mode, recognition of shapes and words and conversion into a formal design in the programming IDE.

text: FreeForm: Informal form design on a large interactive display surface This demonstration shows the tool we have developed for hand-sketching user interfaces. Our motivation for developing this tool is to provide an environment where novice programmers can move freely along the design continuum from informal low-fidelity prototypes to completed formal designs. A low-cost digital whiteboard is used to provide a shared work space for Freeform. The tool is integrated into a programming IDE and provides penbased sketching and editing, a storyboard, run mode, recognition of shapes and words and conversion into a formal design in the programming IDE.

year: 2001

title: When Red Runs Blue: A collection of poetry taking back woman’s autonomy over our bodies

authors: Sadgrove, Amber

subjects: queer

abstract: Dear Vagina Owners/ Vagina admirers

Welcome to my body. When Red Runs Blue is a collection of poetry centred around menstruation, and exploring the complicated relationship between patriarchy and the female reproductive system. The reality of womanhood bleeds through these pages, in all frequencies, beautiful, violent, political. We are breeders but it is not safe to do so. Autonomous sexual desire is forbidden. This collection highlights the effects of silencing bleeders and the damaging consequences that have inevitably ensued. Come and explore this womb. My main three anchor points for these poems are menstruation, shame and sexual liberation for women.

My poetry touches on images of women’s menstrual bodies across history, showcasing how visceral mistreatment stretches from witch hunts and early insane asylums, to contemporary ways of looking at women as unstable and hysterical, so ingrained in our psyches as to become the norm. I also explore sapphic sexual relationships with and without the intrusion of the male gaze.

These are the voices of bleeders in both public and private spaces who have been shunned and put on the back burner simply because they have vaginas. My own determination to expose the rich, fleshly life of the body in vivid, defiant imagery  refuses to bow to patriarchal erasure and control. I want to give voice to the cycles, strains and stigmas that surround the womb, and celebrating the pleasures, powers and nourishment that still arise from its inner spaces.

text: When Red Runs Blue: A collection of poetry taking back woman’s autonomy over our bodies Dear Vagina Owners/ Vagina admirers

Welcome to my body. When Red Runs Blue is a collection of poetry centred around menstruation, and exploring the complicated relationship between patriarchy and the female reproductive system. The reality of womanhood bleeds through these pages, in all frequencies, beautiful, violent, political. We are breeders but it is not safe to do so. Autonomous sexual desire is forbidden. This collection highlights the effects of silencing bleeders and the damaging consequences that have inevitably ensued. Come and explore this womb. My main three anchor points for these poems are menstruation, shame and sexual liberation for women.

My poetry touches on images of women’s menstrual bodies across history, showcasing how visceral mistreatment stretches from witch hunts and early insane asylums, to contemporary ways of looking at women as unstable and hysterical, so ingrained in our psyches as to become the norm. I also explore sapphic sexual relationships with and without the intrusion of the male gaze.

These are the voices of bleeders in both public and private spaces who have been shunned and put on the back burner simply because they have vaginas. My own determination to expose the rich, fleshly life of the body in vivid, defiant imagery  refuses to bow to patriarchal erasure and control. I want to give voice to the cycles, strains and stigmas that surround the womb, and celebrating the pleasures, powers and nourishment that still arise from its inner spaces.

year: 2023

title: The Unmet Legal, Social and Cultural Needs of Māori with Disabilities

authors: Hickey, Susan Jane

subjects: Māori

abstract: There is little work done in the area of indigenous disability identity issues and how they are recognised in domestic and international human rights laws. The discourse of disability has always been based on social constructionism and without it, there is no identity. I discuss its relevance to indigenous (Māori) with disabilities and how the multiplicitous nature of the identity of  other  has a particular impact when indigenous, gender and disability are all identified from marginalised groups. I also explore the impact of westernised thinking around impairment, in particular the models of disabilities on indigenous well-being. The issues of family (whānau), whakawhanaungatanga (family relationships), interdependence (community) and collectivity identities central to indigenous thinking are largely ignored by law and policy, yet central to indigenous identity. This ignorance in policy has led to the disparities that continue to remain for indigenous persons with disabilities, particularly those from within thematic identity groups.

text: The Unmet Legal, Social and Cultural Needs of Māori with Disabilities There is little work done in the area of indigenous disability identity issues and how they are recognised in domestic and international human rights laws. The discourse of disability has always been based on social constructionism and without it, there is no identity. I discuss its relevance to indigenous (Māori) with disabilities and how the multiplicitous nature of the identity of  other  has a particular impact when indigenous, gender and disability are all identified from marginalised groups. I also explore the impact of westernised thinking around impairment, in particular the models of disabilities on indigenous well-being. The issues of family (whānau), whakawhanaungatanga (family relationships), interdependence (community) and collectivity identities central to indigenous thinking are largely ignored by law and policy, yet central to indigenous identity. This ignorance in policy has led to the disparities that continue to remain for indigenous persons with disabilities, particularly those from within thematic identity groups.

year: 2008