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Odessa Kelly: Oral Histories of Surveillance
[I]t’s like every time we need something as a community… if our community is a food desert, and we want grocery stores, what do we get? Policing. Surveillance. We need housing. We need places to live. And all this gentrification. What do we get? Policing and surveillance in some type of way is woven into…
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Vanessa Taylor: Oral Histories of Surveillance
And so that’s when I kind of decided to start to do a newsletter that focused on surveillance and anti-surveillance specifically. Because as somebody who is Black and Muslim, and so from two communities, or one community, you know, the intersections are from communities who are like hyper-surveilled and have surveillance as a constant reality—for…
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Dkéama Alexis: Oral Histories of Surveillance
When people were saying around, defunding the police, and that being couched within the overall vision of abolition, but just thinking about how so many resources are being put into death dealing institutions when, just like looking at the pandemic alone, alone, so many people are suffering, and don’t have like access to the things…
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Ann H Kay: Oral Histories of Surveillance
And so we see this, and then we have our period apps giving off information to companies like Facebook who send it to different companies and governments. [They] are able to use all this information without our consent to regulate our bodies, how much contraceptives we should have, etc. Instead of actually protecting us considering…