Nosotros nacimos con una cámara de vigilancia, del Imperio mirando a este estado. Y que a veces uno interioriza y normaliza. Entonces cuando uno entra en procesos de conciencia uno dice: “Esto no está bien.” …Creo que eso es uno de los grandes retos en espacios colonizados y como a través del apoderamiento individual…
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…
And the complexities then therefore with this work is to be able to draw those parallels and simplify them for people to understand, to say the fact that you can’t go to Tokai, for example, without somebody sitting in some control room, and watching your movement is the similar thing as having to have pass…
This field is pretty terrible you know [laughs]. It’s the combination of people thinking they’re so smart and objective, and that combination just really gets to me, like, it’s this combination. Regressive is the right word. —Timnit Gebru Our Data Bodies (ODB) is excited to present a series of oral histories from organizers, writers, and…