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Reflections of a #Unsettledscholar

2025· article· W4416928974 on OpenAlexaff
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Bibliographic record

Venue(Un)Disturbed A Journal of Feminist Voices · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPosthumanist Ethics and Activism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReflexivityColonialismIdentity (music)SolidarityDecolonizationIndigenousIntersectionalityRepresentation (politics)Metaphor

Abstract

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This paper investigates the intersections of race, identity, feminism, and digital media through a reflexive blogging project on Tumblr. The blog, Unsettledscholar explores decolonial thought, white racial socialization (Frey et al. 2022), and algorithmic biases (Philips and Ng-A-Fook 2024), that mediate the digital representation of marginalized voices. Using Jennifer A. Moon’s reflective practice methodology, the project examines how whiteness and settler privilege shape perceptions of race and identity in digital contexts, particularly in relation to Indigenous sovereignty and feminist praxis, Tumblr’s affordances as a multimodal, dialogic space (Bourdaa 2018), that facilitate a non-linear reflection on how colonial and patriarchal structures are perpetuated or challenged in digital environments. By engaging with multimedia content—such as images, text, and GIFs—the blog connects theoretical frameworks like Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s critique of decolonization as a metaphor and intersectional feminist scholarship with lived experiences of digital activism and advocacy. The project highlights how algorithms, rooted in colonial and capitalist systems, invisibilize Indigenous and BIPOC voices while amplifying certain narratives that align with settler colonial ideologies. It also considers how feminist counterpublics (Hoch et al. 2020) on Tumblr foster solidarity and resistance, creating spaces for nuanced discussions of relationality, care, and identity affirmation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.767
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.372
Teacher spread0.344 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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