Abstract:Feminist scholars are increasingly drawing attention to the ways “big
data” and data representations reinscribe gender and racial inequality, an issue made even
more pressing by the role data has taken in our daily lives since the start of the COVID-19
pandemic. "Stitching the Curve," a knitted pandemic data visualization project by librarians
at the University of Alberta, offers an intersection between digital activism and
craftivism, enabling a material, feminist respo… Show more
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