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Navigating A Bipoc Identity Through Solidarity Design Labor, Dave Pabellon
Navigating A Bipoc Identity Through Solidarity Design Labor, Dave Pabellon
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This short paper uses experiences as a design practitioner, an activist, and a 2nd generation immigrant as a means to understand and define “good work”, and how that work can assist in navigating one’s identity. The “good work” is self-defined by the author as labor produced in solidarity with communities in need of support. Through the obsession with work, albeit “good work”, one can ultimately lose sight of their own identity through assimilation. Or at the very least, be forced into a work-first lifestyle where constant code-switching is necessary, which forces the siloing off of each identity lens, never to …