Pamela Leggett-Robinson to Contribute to ACM Inroads' New "Notes From The Margins" Column

Dr. Pamela Leggett-Robinson and Dr. Tamara Pearson (Senior Director of Research, Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology) are excited to present “Notes from the Margin.” This new column will focus on elevating research by and about historically marginalized communities in computer science, with a particular focus on Black women. Taking its name from the seminal work, From Margin to Center, by renowned Black feminist scholar bell hooks, we ascribe to the assertion put forth by hooks that the margins of society are not only places of oppression but also of great resistance. Our column will highlight that resistance. With articles written by me and Pamela, along with contributions from invited guest authors, we seek to reshape the conversation about those of us in the margins of computer science.  For as bell hooks so eloquently wrote in her 1989 article, “Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness,” "This is an intervention. A message from that space in the margin that is a site of creativity and power, that inclusive space where we recover ourselves where we move in solidarity to erase the category colonized /colonizer. Marginality as a site of resistance." We look forward to meeting everyone there.