Minisode 5 - Experimenting with Digital Storytelling (with Todd Anderson and Bryan Yee)

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Episode Transcript

Resident Artist at Culture Hub and host of Word Hack, the language+technology talk series at Babycastles, Todd Anderson joins the WBI show alongside virtual/augmented reality practitioner Bryan Yee to discuss the ways in which experimental digital storytelling can provide opportunities to intervene in the political moment where protesters are in the streets demanding justice for George Floyd. What if by using the Hitchhiker Chrome plug-in developed by Todd, participants vandalized the websites of government agencies that are killing us in the streets? Is hashtag activism a way to assuage White guilt without having to take any meaningful risk and how can we use these technologies to create public space for the resistance?

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Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Stanley Muñoz and Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis
Guests: Todd Anderson and Bryan Yee

Minisode 4 - Mother's Day In The Trenches: Abolishing the Child Welfare System

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Episode Transcript

4 women with direct personal experience being investigated by the New York City’s Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) join the WBI show to share how the agency works to systematically separate Black and Brown families. They also lift up the ways in which families are thriving now in the absence of the surveillance typically executed via the public school system.

In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, National Bailout is bailing out Black mamas and caregivers now through May, to ensure our people are alive, well and safe for Mother’s Day and beyond. We encourage you to give directly on their site in the spirit of Mother’s Day.

Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman
Music: Drew Lewis
Guests: Joyce McMillan, Angeline Montauban, Raquel Singh and Hope Newton

Links for Episode: 

Some Parents Awaiting iPads Got Visit From Child Welfare
COVID Staff Death Rocks Juvenile Center For Virus-Free Youth
Abuse/Neglect Investigations by Community District, 2015-2019 (NYC ACS)
More than two dozen coronavirus cases at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center
In New York, A Pointed Debate over Predictive Analytics and Child Welfare

Minisode 3 - Voices of Rikers Island

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Michael Nugent of It’s Up To Us To End Mass Incarceration  joins the WBI show alongside those currently incarcerated at Rikers Island and their families. Rikers Island currently has almost 9 times the rate of community transmission of COVID-19 relative to the rest of New York City. Listen to the testimonies of those most profoundly impacted by the virus and unable to socially distance. #FreeThemAll

You can follow It’s Up To Us on their Facebook page or contact them at ItsUpToUsToEndMI@gmail.com. To support their work, you can make a donation via Venmo @ItsUpToUsToEndMI.

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