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Very Online: TikTok Has Embraced Pro-Eating Disorder Content in Quarantine
TikTok itself is also encouraging this behavior by promoting ads that encourage weight loss.
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Stinging Stans: Swifties Doxxing Journalists Is Just the Beginning
People don’t really know what to think about fangirls or teenage girls in general.
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Very Online: Twitter is a Salve for Black People. It’s Also Anti-Black.
What does Twitter’s commitment to Black people actually look like, and what is the impact when Twitter fails Black users?
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Jada Pinkett-Smith Isn’t the Villain in Her Entanglement. Nobody Is.
Will and Jada’s public relationship has resulted in explosive discourse online.
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YouTuber Myka Stauffer Illustrates the Problem with White Adoptive Parents
Adoptees have long known what it’s like to have our stories usurped by adoptive parents.
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Even in Death, Breonna Taylor Is Being Disrespected
It’s painful to think that a cute internet joke is needed to rile people up after the death of a Black woman.
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White Filters: Tech Companies Are Butchering Juneteenth
Tech isn’t hopeless, but fixing its problems will take more than a simple Snapchat filter or offering a day off.
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Abstract Pain: George Floyd and the Viral Spectacle of Black Death
Black people’s deaths at the hands of police officers are, like everything now, mediated through the internet, with the negotiation of life and death spread through videos that go viral.
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Data Healing: Digital Doulas Take Restorative Justice to Cyberspace
From surveillance to racist algorithms, the internet has routinely been used as a tool of global capitalism and white supremacy.
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Pride and Joy: LGBTQ Muslims and the Power of Online Spaces
Digital spaces are vital to combat near-constant assaults on our very being.
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