Future Genders Archive – Joyful Worldmaking

Future Genders Archive: A Workshop + Zine-Making Series

What becomes possible when we imagine beyond the worlds we currently inhabit? What people, places, relationships, practices, or things belong in our collective queer futures? How might joy be a form of worldmaking? What do we want to make more possible How might we archive queer and joyful worldmaking?

Most machine learning models record gender as a fixed, binary data point. In everyday life, gender is something people express and live out, and it changes with context, community and time.

The Future Genders Archive is a monthly workshop series that translates feminist theory and Science and Technology Studies (STS) into accessible design methods for imagining fluid, expansive technical futures. Each month, a guest facilitator gives a short talk on one theme.

Participants then respond through collage, drawing and writing with help from a design mentor. Each session's pages become a zine, and the zines build into a public archive of gender-diverse AI futures.

The Future Genders Archive is associated with Concordia University through the Applied AI Institute. The workshop explores gender diversity and AI, encouraging people to think critically about how gender is represented in technology and how we can create a more inclusive future.