The Problem With Silicon Valley Medicine – YouTube
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW3DGnHO2iY[/embed] What happens when the worlds of Silicon Valley tech and medicine meet? Does more data always make the answer more straightforward?
Category: Social Issues
For Those Seeking or in Flight: Black Trans*feminist Nihilism
Indeed, Patterson himself disavows this application of social death to Black people post-emancipation and states his reasons for doing so, collectively referencing the various ways in which Black people have ostensibly been folded into civil society. But this itself invokes a conflation between the distilled social death and an analysis of slavery’s transformation throughout time,…
A question for lawyers about the BLM hashtag hijackers:
Hey lawyers! In light of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag being hijacked by capitalists, is there a way to prevent such a thing happening in the future? Can the community affected or those who are supposed to benefit, or the internet itself sue for copyright or trademark?
What Happened Two Days Later
[sc name="responsivevoice" ][/sc] There must have been something floating through this corner of the Universe. I said most of what I had to say on this in Twitter and YouTube. I just thought I’d weigh in since I did make that post about people’s expectations around protecting African women and femmes, and as I predicted,…
Cancel Culture? Really?
[sc name="responsivevoice" ] Celebrities and “influencers” should stop whining about cancel culture. Whining about cancel culture is like me, as a human being living on the planet Earth, especially as a witch, whining about the fact that burning incense turns it to ashes. If your livelihood depends on some people liking you and trusting your art…
Morphological Freedom and Transexual or Intersex Children
[sc name="responsivevoice" ] That more people have come to accept the reality that fluid as it may be, patterns of gender and orientation are at least somewhat biologically in-born, and not always binary or aligned with classic sex roles, is a good thing. Now though, there is the question of just how much and when…