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Celeb Buzz: Sex Toy Brands Are Increasingly Bringing on Famous Faces

Cara Delevingne arrives at a fashion show. She is white with long blond hair in a high ponytail. She wears black and heavy eyeliner.
by Gabrielle Kassel
December 22, 2020 at 11:39am
Sexual shame can’t be stopped by the power of a pretty, popular, and palatable celebrity.
Tranae Moran, a thin Black person with a faded hair cut, is captured in a facial surveillance camera that includes personal information

Undetectable: “Coded Bias” Challenges the Racism of Facial-Recognition Software

by Bedatri D. Choudhury
November 24, 2020 at 10:00am
Artificial intelligence is a danger to our civil rights when it replicates historical qualities of any real-life bias. Read more »
A close-up of a woman in a lace top, her face obscured.

“The Hierarchies” Imagines a World Where Sex Robots Have Human Impulses

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
August 24, 2020 at 10:01am
It’s a shocking and eye-opening debut, one that has me looking at my coffee maker a little differently. Read more »
an Asian child peers through the end of a wooden bed

Bird’s Eye: Surveillance Culture Comes for Nannies

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. Read more »
photo of an Asian woman checking her smartphone

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 »
a genderqueer person with green hair looks at their phone

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 »
woman on train platform taking selfie

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 »

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