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Bird’s Eye: Surveillance Culture Comes for Nannies

an Asian child peers through the end of a wooden bed
by Elena Schilder
July 6, 2020 at 11:03am
Unlike suspicion and mistrust, trust is not easily built. Once built, it may experience ruptures and need frequent repairs.
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Need an Abortion? There’s an App for That

by Steph Herold
January 22, 2020 at 10:43am
Now there’s an even more intimate way to access abortion information that can be truthful and reliable or wildly misleading—an app on your smartphone. Read more »
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Sticky Fingers: What Have We Learned from a Decade of Sexting?

by Noa Azulai
December 11, 2019 at 1:39pm
Regardless of the progression of sexting as a practice, the way women are exploited online has yet to change. Read more »
(L-R) Lindsay Ellis, Hbomberguy, Contrapoints, and PhilosophyTube

The Unbearable Whiteness of Leftist YouTube

by Marina Watanabe
December 5, 2019 at 6:31pm
Years before the rise of so-called LeftTube, men on the site were endlessly abusing, harassing, and threatening women of color. Read more »
Elizabeth Holmes, a young white woman with her blond hair in a ponytail, stands in a black turtleneck in a medical lab

Drop the Fry: Judging Elizabeth Holmes’s Voice Comes down to Bias

by Sadaf Ahsan
October 7, 2019 at 1:56pm
Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Google Assistant have one thing in common: They all have female-identified voices and names. Read more »

Consumer Retorts: Are Anti-Hauls the Antidote to YouTube’s Cult of Consumerism?

by Andi Zeisler
June 18, 2019 at 9:00am
Swapping “whatever you are will never be enough” for “whatever you have will never be enough” is a lateral move at best. Read more »
illustration of a Black, femme-presenting person with a white afro looking towards the viewer with a thin white line running down from both eyes to their mouth.

The Future is Fembot: Can We Change the Direction of Gendered AI?

by Dejan Jotanovic
April 25, 2019 at 9:00am
Artificial intelligence has become an extension of women’s ongoing struggle for well-rounded respect in modern society. Read more »
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Ghosts in the Machine: Have We Entrusted Too Much to the Internet?

by Adwoa Afful
April 2, 2019 at 1:02pm
We take for granted that the internet will always remember what we might otherwise forget.  Read more »
collage of American singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, and American rapper Tupac Shakur

Digitizing the Dead is Capitalism’s Next Ghoulish Move

by Chanelle Adams
March 29, 2019 at 9:00am
When celebrities, especially musicians, die, fans rightfully grieve for them, but what happens when mourning marries capitalism? Read more »
Solange's profile page on BlackPlanet.com during the launch of her latest album, "When I Get Home" featuring various thumbnails from her visual album

Here For a Black Planet: Solange’s New Album Sparks Nostalgia for a Pioneering Social-Media Platform

by Adwoa Afful
March 20, 2019 at 12:30pm
Solange’s partnership with BlackPlanet feels like its own homecoming. Read more »
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From Information Superhighway to Digital Runway: The Complicated Legacy of Fashion Blogging

by Adwoa Afful
March 5, 2019 at 1:39pm
In its own way, fashion and beauty blogging is as aspirational as traditional fashion media. Read more »

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