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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella)

@kanarinka.bsky.social
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Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Political Economy Lab, the Data + Feminism Lab, and the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production are thrilled to sponsor this book talk by @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine. You can join online or in person! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PolicyViz was one of the first podcasts where @kanarinka.bsky.social and I were able to share our work on DATA FEMINISM, so it felt very full-circle to talk with Jon again as I prepare to release DATA BY DESIGN 🎧 Listen here: zencastr.com/z/RUuQCK0I 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=PdI...
Flyer announcing a new episode of the PolicyViz podcast with Lauren Klein and Jon Schwabish, featuring their headshots
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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👀👀👀👀 fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thrilled to welcome @kanarinka.bsky.social to Atlanta to launch DATA BY DESIGN into the world!
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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Catherine has a new book out on fighting technofascism - the alliance between big tech and global authoritarianism - and is offering an open, free course this coming year that looks like a must for activists in this space.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Join our open, free learning community 📣 Technofascism, Feminism and Democracy 📣 to explore: the rise of global authoritarianism; Big Tech, AI, & the billionaire class; how feminist & grassroots movements are proposing alternative democratic futures. technofascism.dataplusfeminism.mit.edu
Image depicts a bundle of cables (referencing the origin of the word "fasces" which means bundle in Italian) along with the head of an ax protruding from them. The text reads Technofascism, Feminism, Democracy and a smaller text invites you to join the open learning community with a QR code.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Why Bernie Sanders is wrong - and nationalizing AI is a bad idea "AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact."
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The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI
AI is not a neutral technology whose benefits need to be redistributed. It is a weapon of class war from above, designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power. Nationalizing it does nothing to change...
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0
Reddit post in r/teenager showing an ID for Ramses II and claiming they used it to evade age-verification
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I'm so proud to have contributed to this transnational, feminist labor of love!
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Proposed rule OMB-2026–0034 will devastate US science and destroy the scientific talent pipeline in the country. Here is the comment I submitted about the rule: medium.com/data-feminis... You can make public comments until Mon, Jul 13th. Please do it and reach out to your colleagues to do the same!
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Stop the Attack on US Science: Comment to the OMB about proposed rule OMB-2026–0034
The US government is attempting to modify how it allocates federal research dollars through a new proposed rule: “Regulation for Federal…
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Postdoctoral Associate
MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"If this rule change goes forward, science in the US “will stop,” says Colette Delawalla, the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. “It won’t exist anymore.”"
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Extra bonus! Preorder from B&N before Friday and get 25% off AND a bookplate (which you will be able to stick in the front of the book once it arrives) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/data-by-de...
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Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science
Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
You can pre-order DATA BY DESIGN now and also get a beautiful bookplate in the mail! 😍
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The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
CITR just submitted a request to intervene on behalf of technology researchers in the X v. European Commission case to explain the importance of the DSA’s data access rules to the CJEU. (⅓) independenttechresearch.org/citr-members...
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CITR Members Intervene in DSA Court Case to uphold Data Access for Public Interest Research - Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Members of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research today requested leave to intervene in X v. European Commission. X’s Digital Services Act violations have prevented researchers from using p...
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 23/06/2026
‼️ Bad Internet Bills, disguised as “kids safety” bills, are moving through Congress again ‼️ It's time to get those phones in Congress ringing off the hooks again w/ one simple message: we refuse any bill that age restricts, censors & surveils the Internet. : www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Lawmakers cement bipartisan deal for kids online safety package
The new package complicates a separate push for a kids safety bill coming from the Senate.
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CCC @ccc.de · 15/06/2026
We call for AI tech companies to refrain from entering into or fulfilling contracts with military agencies or armed groups that commit possible violations of international law www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
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Access Now - Joint statement on AI in warfare
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are…
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 05/06/2026
anthropic: we have no way of controlling our fully autonomous, "recursively self-improving" model hidden gig workers, RLHF annotators, and seemingly invisible coders & academics that are *actually* improving the model: hold my beer africa.businessinsider.com/news/inside-...
 Inside the unseen operation to turbocharge Claude Code

Shubhangi Goel
01 June 2026 05:02 AM

An Anthropic project is using feedback from about 1,000 human software engineers to improve the performance of Claude Code,the AI coding tool whose recent advancements have disrupted the vibe-coding industry.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 26/05/2026
BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
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Data Feminism for Data Visualization
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😈™ @cooltimesonline.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
So, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes a brilliant (as usual) op-ed about genAI and some tech bro attempts to ridicule it. The guy, Mike Solana, is probably not worth my time but it seems he's gay and as a Gay, I am unduly annoyed by evil gays. Also, I'm bored. So here's my debunking of this guy.
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Receipts are receipts — Chad M. Topaz
A response to Pirate Wires on Tressie McMillan Cottom. Solana mocked her NYT column on celebrity AI promotion without disclosing that his employer Founders Fund is invested in the companies she critiq...
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 12/05/2026
"As crises get stacked, we are in need of new forms to address them." Patti Duncan, editor of Feminist Formations, discusses the proliferation of genres and methods in response to the current moment. Read or listen at the link!
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Feminist Scholarly Writing under Authoritarianism, a Conversation with Debjani Chakravarty, Patti Duncan, and Jennifer C. Nash
Editors of the interdisciplinary journals Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Frontiers, and Signs discuss the second Trump administration’s attacks on women’s and gender studies.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2026
The investigation into Smith College began because Rachel Levine gave the commencement address last year. Smith College has had male commencement speakers before but it's having a trans speaker that caused the Trump admin to go after them. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/04/m...
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Trump probe into Smith College transgender policy was sparked by choice of commencement speaker - The Boston Globe
After Smith awarded an honorary degree to Admiral Rachel L. Levine, a transgender woman and former Biden official, a conservative watchdog group filed a federal complaint.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Brilliant! Everyone buy bell hooks' book Communion on June 16th! (the release date of JD Vance's book Communion).
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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We've upped the ante—this time @sellars.bsky.social and I represented organizations and attorneys with more than 575 years of 1A practice experience explaining why the law firms should win and DOJ should lose in the D.C. Circuit case about the executive orders. theintercept.com/2026/04/02/p...
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The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund Leads Cohort Fighting Trump’s Unconstitutional Media Attacks
A cohort of 42 media and press freedom advocates, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief opposing Trump's attempts to censor the press.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/03/2026
2/2 Four or five weeks from today we'll launch 'Feminist Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social, which I'm editing right now. You're going to enjoy this one a lot. openvisualizationacademy.org On April 15 we'll announce 10+ more instructors and courses.
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Open Visualization Academy
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/03/2026
The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I spoke with @rollingstone.com about the Trump administration's new AI framework. At a moment when a majority of Americans are asking for AI guardrails, this proposal moves in the opposite direction. Rather that constrain companies, it releases them from accountability. 🧵 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/03/2026
I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/
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The Ratchet
In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/03/2026
Cc @slifty.bsky.social @biella.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social @mapthepower.bsky.social
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/03/2026
ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts
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DHS Contracts Explorer
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 16/03/2026
With the cover now finalized, I am pleased to announce my forthcoming book: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. Available this October from @ucpress.bsky.social s. 🧵 1/4
Book cover for "Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence" by Julián Posada. Set against a bright yellow background, three vertical photographic panels at the top depict a crowd with digital bounding boxes over faces, a person coding at a computer, and a dense rack of glowing server cables. The title is in large, bold black text, followed by the red subtitle and the author’s name in blue at the bottom.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 13/03/2026
Join us for a conversation with @libbyadler.bsky.social and @kjrawson.bsky.social on Trump’s anti-trans and anti-gender executive orders. Check out our new Ask a Feminist here! (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
© 2025 The University of Chicago and other publishing partners. All rights reserved, including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial intelligence technologies or similar…
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 12/03/2026
The admin's new immigration policy targeting people working in fields like misinfo research, fact-checking, and content moderation — labeling their work “censorship” — crosses a constitutional line. Read more about our challenge to this policy with @knightcolumbia.org 🔗 protdem.org/4b6fIV9
Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims

"This policy appears to be so broad and vague that it casts a shadow over a vast range of protected activity. The professionals working to keep the internet safe are left in fear, wondering whether doing their jobs could cost them their visas or trigger detention or deportation."
Naomi Gilens
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I just published a short excerpt from my book, Counting Feminicide, to honor the legacy of Carmen Castelló, pathbreaking auntie and caregiver, who monitored feminicide in Puerto Rico: medium.com/data-feminis...
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Honoring the legacy of Carmen Castelló, pathbreaking auntie and caregiver, who monitored feminicide…
I learned recently about the passing of Carmen Castelló and was very saddened to hear the news. In her honor, I wanted to post an excerpt…
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
How is it possible that in 2026 if I want to read a PDF smoothly I still have to "Enable scrolling"?
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The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research has filed a lawsuit with the @knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org challenging a US State Department policy to revoke or deny visas of non-citizen researchers because of their work studying the societal impacts of technology. (1/4)
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 04/03/2026
To kick off #WHM, we have a new Ask a Feminist on Pronatalism featuring Nandita Bajaj and @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social! What is pronatalism? What are its links to eugenic thinking? And why is it incompatible with feminism? Read/listen at the link!
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Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin
Shoshanna Ehlich interviews Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin about pronatalism.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....
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Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds
Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/02/2026
AAUP members are rejecting the Commission for Public Higher Education accreditation standards, which threatens to introduce unprecedented partisan influence over universities. Check out this thread and graphics explaining what is at stake nationally, especially at southern universities⬇️
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Is a technology that you use contributing to fascism? What are the characteristics of technofascism? Find out by taking the Technofascist Technology Quiz - medium.com/data-feminis... (I'd love to hear which tech you evaluate and how it scores)
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The Technofascist Technology Quiz
I’ve begun a new project to synthesize the emerging literature around “technofascism” into an accessible explainer. Since I’m an educator…
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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 23/02/2026
With the SAVE act, Republicans want to make it more difficult for married women who have changed their name to vote—and that is more likely to be Republican women. Seems counterintuitive but not if the long term goal is repealing the 19th A. By Pamela Herd. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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The SAVE Act is Christian Nationalism in Action
Gendered Burdens and the Right to Vote
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Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc · 22/02/2026
Finally blogged about my paper (led by @zarine.net) that seeks to explain why Croatian Wikipedia spent a decade captured by a cabal of political extremists and became a site for Holocaust revisionism, while other similar Wikipedia languages seemed to have fared much better. mako.cc/copyrighteou...
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Join Equator next week for an online conversation between Quinn Slobodian and Melinda Cooper about her essay on the Epstein Files and the psychology of billionaire patriarchs. Free — 7pm Thursday night Eastern Time / 11am Friday morning Canberra Time: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...
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Epstein Family Values
Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the depredations of Jeffrey Epstein, America's billionaire patriarchs, and the far right
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance (2026, Volume 14) Edited by Paola Sartoretto and Sandra Jeppesen Complete issue: doi.org/10.17645/mac...
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Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance
Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Why Missing Data Matters: Power, Justice, and the Stories We Don’t See by @ale_jungs medium.com/data-feminis...
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Why Missing Data Matters: Power, Justice, and the Stories We Don’t See
When data is missing, it’s not just a technical glitch — it’s a story about power. Recently, at McGill Love Data Week, Data + Feminism…
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