M Yule (they/them)

Areas of Interest

• Transnational Feminism
• Social Reproduction
• Artificial Intelligence
• Science and Technology
• Digital Labor
• Labor Politics
• Global Development Studies

Biography

Yule is a queer and non-binary scholar and artist. An MA student in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto with a collaborative specialization in Development Policy and Power, their current research looks at the how female digital laborers in the global South are invisibilized care-takers of the global digital community of the internet, while simultaneously executing domestic care work in the private sphere of the home and family. In so doing, these women are among the most influential agents of social reproduction on a transnational scale.

Yule arrived to this research while working as a writer and graphic designer in the global North technology sector during the rise of generative AI. They witnessed and participated first-hand in the capitalist economy’s unwillingness to make slow and responsible decisions at the helm of technological transformation.

Beyond research and professional work, Yule is a writer, a visual artist, and a person in constant pursuit of fun wherever they can find, create, preserve, and share it.

Program: MA 2025

Collaborative Program(s): Development Policy and Power

Education

BA, Global Development Studies, Queen’s University

Graduate Certificate, Publishing, Centennial College

Master’s Research Paper

Supervisor: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani

My research is centered on how female digital laborers in the global South perform the invisible, laborious task of social reproduction on a transnational scale, arguing that these laborers are among the most influential agents for transnational social reproduction—working as both care-taker of the globalized digital community (the internet), while simultaneously executing the domestic care work in the private sphere of the home and family. I intend to interrogate further questions of how movements for gender equity in the global North technology sector contrast, overlook, and often exploit the realities of women’s technology labor in the global South.

Presentations

Essentials for Creating a Responsible AI Framework, Panelist, Dynamics User Group Canadian Regional Meetup, Toronto, Canada, November 2024
Responsible AI and Marketing, Co-Presenter, Community Summit North America, San Antonio, United States, October 2024
Thriving During Times of Uncertainty, Panel Moderator, Women in IT Summit, Toronto, Canada, October 2023

Honours and Awards