Newsletter #19: sent!
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Doing: exploring Washington D.C., and being there on the day of the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March; learning about Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers; celebrating and reading Detroit activist Grace Lee Boggs.
Links-wise: borders, refugee crisis, gun crisis, CIA, FBI, NSA, Drone Papers, military haircuts, solar engineers in Chile, Boxgirls in Nairobi, Magic Mike XXL, Beyoncé.
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Newsletter #18: sent!
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Doing: having a piece cross-posted by a platform and organization that I deeply admire; reading and learning about the refugee crisis and supporting a project aiming to help; going to the Hill.
Links-wise: Syria, Hungary, British spies, anonymity networks, making a clock, writing through protest, making cameras count, The Young Lords, Afropunk, women in hip-hop, Grace Jones, @Snowden.
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Newsletter #17: sent!
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Links-wise: Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Argentine, Europe, asylum seeking, New Orleans, black rage, women and machines, machines of loving grace, pills on waves, Brazil’s feminist funk, domestic workers unite, labor and buffed nails.
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Newsletter #16: sent!
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Work-wise: diving into my new job at full speed; meeting and working with activists, technologists, researchers, human rights and civil liberties defenders whose work I deeply admire; (many!) airports and airplanes.
Links-wise: sex workers’ rights, chatting in secret while being watched, Jesselyn Radack, filming the police, Patrisse Cullors, transfeminism, Chelsea Manning, what 70 years of computing sounds like, strikes, lemons.
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Newsletter #15: sent!
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Work-wise: joining a terrific team, programming new work roadmaps, wrangling workshops to build stronger movements in a city rebuilding itself, reading in German an interview I gave on the Internet, feminism, and a feminist Internet.
Links-wise: who owns your face, rainbow filters, rainbow flags, Confederate flags, 9 heartbreaks, class struggle, Grace Lee Boggs, Sylvia Rivera, Chelsea Manning, European Games, video games, data raves.
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Newsletter #14: sent!
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Work-wise: publishing a piece on digital civil disobedience, its tactics, tools and future threads; sharing details about my Allied Media Conference session on co-creating a podcast on intersectional self-care and how to participate, both in person and online; following conversations about mass surveillance, data espionage, and health and well-being of transgender individuals and communities via hashtag.
Links-wise: divorcing your metadata, the myth of a borderless Internet, visualising absence in the archive of war, a leader-full movement, cybernetic love, Black Panthers, and – who decides what is a woman?
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Newsletter #12: sent!
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Work-wise: writing writing writing; participating in an interview; getting ready to pack; following resistance, surveillance and accountability via hashtag.
Links-wise: reimagining Black politics, sampling, Internet.org is not the Internet, Internet connections, the war of concepts, the spy in my pocket,Town Square, unity, Queen Latifah.
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Newsletter #11: sent!
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Work-wise: publishing an article on working with marginalised communities with data and technology for advocacy, written collaboratively with practitioners whose work I deeply admire; joining discussions and collective reflections on online activism and digital civil disobedience; tuning into great conversations via hashtag; taking notes for new write-ups to come.
Links-wise: people are hurting, Baltimore, Ferguson, data, photos and apps for justice, lack of justice, the computers are listening, nail polish, ethical consumption of pornography, peanut butter, pride is coming up, Prince.
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Newsletter #10: sent!
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Work-wise: publishing a post on why digital humanitarian response matters and how you can help the earthquake emergency in Nepal; co-running a session on building a digital security culture in your work; celebrating the International Workers’ Day!
Links-wise: police brutality, criminal justice, cybercrime, drone strikes, workers’ strikes, how to make banners for your next march, why we should have a better condoms by now, real women, real faces, real bodies, Lauryn Hill, Laura Jane Grace and Mary J. Blige in the MOMA.
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Newsletter #9: sent!
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Work-wise: publishing a curated list of podcasts contributing to widen representation and democracy in the media space; following a hashtag frenzy about all things journalism, web, movement building and resistance; giving a final touch to articles about to be published.
Links-wise: gun violence, slow violence, the FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades, tools to avoid snoopers online, wireless routers spying on our breathing, Rihanna breathing it and out, and Cher.
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