Moving Towards Race-and-Power Consciousness in Content Moderation(1) Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are novel venues for content moderation, a familiar issue that existed long before the digital…Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021
Privacy and Personhood, not Privacy and PropertyPrivacy has been linked to property for much of American legal history. The root of this association can be found in the Fourth Amendment…Feb 28, 2021Feb 28, 2021
“Black Lives Matter” They Say; “We stand in solidarity” They Say: Observations Beyond Amazon’s…Actions (or rather the absence of meaningful action) speak louder than words, I say.Oct 26, 20202Oct 26, 20202
Think Big, Start Small: The Role of Tax in Activism, Progressive Federalism, and Reparations*This is a paper I wrote for a class last spring. It was recent as of May/June 2020. My footnotes are not appearing but I will include a…Oct 1, 20201Oct 1, 20201
How much does the voice of an incarcerated person cost?To continue this blog’s focus on free expression, I want to draw attention to how the carceral state stifles any and all expression from…Sep 14, 2020Sep 14, 2020
A Case Study: Early Indoctrination Against the Freedom of ExpressionWhen I was in eight grade, a friend and I started a petition for red sweaters. At a k-8 Catholic school, where there was not much to…Sep 10, 20201Sep 10, 20201
Raging Against “Free” Speech; Radical Transparency, Consent, and FreedomThe United States has waged open and secret imperialist wars of oppression and exploitation that have shaped current events all over the…Sep 5, 2020Sep 5, 2020
Hello! Reflections from you friendly neighborhood South Asian QWOC and daughter of immigrant…I am beginning a blog of essays where I share what I learn about oppression. The issues I cover may be obvious to some but useful to…Sep 1, 2020Sep 1, 2020