Newsletter #25: sent!
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Doing: reporting, formatting, celebrating no-frills open source layouts, getting ready to fly to Detroit and following techie trials live tweeted.
Links-wise: political resistance, software, malware, capitalism, Black protest, Black femmehood, hair analysis at the FBI, nails, The Cramps, riots.
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Newsletter #24: sent!
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Doing: flying to San Francisco, joining great meetings around RightsCon, getting together with the Aspiration Team, traveling around the Bay by bike, car and ferry.
Links-wise: the NSA of the 19th century, FBI alarms, the secret rules of the internet, Black power, Black womanhood, CIA skin care products to collect DNA, Computer Blue, Radio Menea, LEMONADE.
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Newsletter #23: sent!
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Doing: being in four countries and three continents in one month; reporting and co-facilitating workshops in three of the aforementioned countries; reading articles about phones on the phone.
Links-wise: activism is not terrorism, Apple vs FBI, gender inequality and privacy intrusion, being a queer Muslim woman, Johnetta Elzie, Angela Davis, Love and Hip Hop.
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Newsletter #22: sent!
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Doing: co-facilitating and co-organizing the Reproducible Builds Summit; watching talks from the latest Chaos Communication Congress; travelling, reporting, hashtagging.
Links-wise: backdoors, trapdoors, censorship, domestic workers’ rights, sex workers’ rights, Black Futures, Dream 9, computer hacking supercut, Audre Lorde canoeing, brows.
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Newsletter #21: sent!
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Doing: facilitating a session on technology for direct action; co-facilitating a discussion about being an activist tech capacity builder; joining a Twitter book club on critical algorithm studies; listening to brilliant and bold public conversations.
Links-wise: attacks, exploitations, freedom to write, freedom of expression, free speech, censorship, terrible policies, tracking phones, wearing cameras, self care as warfare, Chelsea Manning, Roxane Gay, Nicki Minaj.
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Newsletter #20: sent!
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Doing: facilitating a workshop on digital campaigning in crisis response for and with Amnesty International; joining a Mobilisation Lab-hosted and Aspiration-wrangled event on mobile mobilisation; making online noise to #FreeAlaa; listening to and learning from a day of protest.
Links-wise: encrypted chats, encrypted web, obfuscation, interference, phones in prison, love in the age of neoliberalism, Parris Goebel, Becky G and Black Grrrls Riot.
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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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