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Volume 41 Issue 10, Dec 04 2020
Crisis Response To California’s Carceral State
One bill’s attempt to provide alternatives to policing
As this summer saw skyrocketing donations to bail funds and widespread uprisings in support of Black liberation, 24-year-old Los Angelean Elizeth …
Criminalizing Childhood
The problem with the juvenile justice system
content warning: juvenile detention, anti-Black violence In May 2020, a Michigan judge sentenced a 15-year-old Black girl named Grace* to juvenile …
The Paradox Of Socially Responsible Computing
The limits and potential of teaching tech ethics
As awareness of technology’s destructive power increases—the erosion of democracy, the quantification of individuality, the exacerbation of systemic inequities—attention turns to …
Forced Into the Light
How doxxing and technological authoritarianism threaten transformative movements
It’s not uncommon to find commotion on the portion of I-95 that runs through Providence. On the night of October 12, …
Community as Pedagogy
Reimagining higher education and online learning through Black Mountain College
In 1933, a small, inconspicuous community sprung up in the densely wooded southern Appalachians. Its students and visitors would come to …
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Lose Ctrl
SZA’s exploration of the in-between
I first started listening to SZA in 2018, the year I struggled with self-doubt and insecurity while trying to develop my …
Indy Holiday Gift Guide
For the final issue of Vol. 41, Bowen and Kate decided to make the rounds and ask colleagues what single book …
An Old Telephone Song
Home is where the corn nuts are. Cheap and salty, stock gas station food but the only place you ever find …