As data and AI are increasingly mobilized in the service of global corporations, governments, and elite institutions, their unequal conditions of production, their inequitable impacts, and their asymmetrical silences become increasingly more apparent. D'ignazio makes the case that grassroots data activists, predominantly  from Latin America, are at the forefront of a data ethics that rigorously […]

Dr. Medina examines queer liberation's resistance to silencing and stigmatization through uncivil protest actions that create counter-community and exert epistemic and affective friction. Focusing on multiracial queer activism, examples include the Cooper Do-nuts Riot, the Stonewall Riots, and Queer Nation's public kiss-ins.

When protestors cry out "Protect Black women!", who are they speaking to? What do they hope will be the outcome? This talk explores the politics of protection in the Movement for Black Lives, focusing on the experiences of Black women and nonbinary survivors of interpersonal violence in Baltimore.