While HCI scholars have examined how e-textiles serve to bridge the gender divide, there is little research into refugee, asylum seeker and low socioeconomic migrant women (WRAMs) and e-textiles. This paper presents the results of a series of two community-led participatory design workshops to study the factors that enable these women, who face intersecting barriers, to engage in STEM oriented making activities. Our findings examine A. deficit discourse and strengths-based narratives, B. bridging STEM skills into a culturally safe and tailored learning environment, C. bridging commitment through commercial viability and D. the benefits of organizational partnering to bridge skills and diverse communities. This paper makes three contributions. First, we offer a strengths-based counter narrative on the abilities, assets and motivations of WRAMs to engage in makerspaces, particularly STEM skills. Second, we offer a discussion on the implications of racial capitalism and internalized bias which limits resources, research and practice with WRAMs and consequently, technological design and production. Third, we extend the work of Buechley and contribute five strategies to bridge WRAMs into STEM oriented makerspace activities to build a new clubhouse. We discuss the vital role researchers, technologists, makerspaces and financiers must play in supporting these new clubhouses to facilitate strengths-based narratives, harnessing and amplifying skills-based assets, in order to diversify who shapes technology and thus what is shaped.

翻译：尽管人机交互学者已研究过电子纺织品如何弥合性别鸿沟，但针对难民、寻求庇护者及社会经济地位低下的移民女性（WRAMs）与电子纺织品的研究仍显不足。本文通过开展两期由社区主导的参与式设计工作坊，研究那些面临多重障碍的女性能够参与STEM导向制造活动的促进因素。研究发现聚焦于：A. 缺陷话语与优势本位叙事；B. 在文化安全且定制化的学习环境中衔接STEM技能；C. 通过商业可行性维系参与承诺；D. 组织合作对连接技能与多元社区的益处。本文作出三点贡献：首先，我们提出关于WRAMs参与创客空间（特别是STEM技能）的能力、资产与动机的优势本位反叙事。其次，我们探讨种族资本主义与内化偏见如何限制针对WRAMs的资源投入、研究实践，进而影响技术设计与生产。第三，我们拓展了Buechley的研究，提出五项将WRAMs引入STEM导向创客空间活动的策略以构建新型俱乐部。我们论述研究者、技术专家、创客空间与资助方在支持这些新型俱乐部中应发挥的关键作用——通过促进优势本位叙事、整合并放大技能型资产，最终实现技术塑造者的多元化与技术产出的多样性。