Modeling Climate Change: The Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) and Why It Matters (with Joshua Cuzzone)

How do we put the significant changes of the Earth’s atmosphere we’re experiencing now due to anthropogenic or human caused CO2  into context relative to the natural variability our planet has experienced? Rates of mass loss similar to now occurred in the early Holocene Period (~11,500 years ago) but simulations predict the 21st century will far exceed that rate of loss. If we deviate from the business as usual model, commit to low carbon emissions, can we mitigate or reverse sea level rise due to a melting Greenland Ice Sheet?

Assistant Scientist at UCI Department of Earth System Science Joshua Cuzzone joins the WBI show to discuss Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century. He co-authored this recently published paper in Nature alongside an interdisciplinary team of paleoclimatologists, glacial geologists and geochemists. Check out this episode to learn about the 5 years they spent examining these questions. We also take an in depth look at the high-resolution Ice Sheet and Sea-level system Model (ISSM) used for simulating rates of GIS mass change from 12,000 years ago to AD 2100.

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Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman
Music: Drew Lewis
Show Notes: 
Chernobyl: data wars and disaster politics

Recommendations:
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future by Richard Alley

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On Catching a Case: Fear and Inequality in New York City's Child Welfare System (with Tina Lee)

How does a child welfare system claiming to help families in need systematically target, punish and separate Black, Hispanic and poor families? Why aren’t we better connecting the dots between police abolition and the need to abolish child services and their implementation of surveillance in the name of *support*? How has the federal Family First Prevention Services Act passed in 2018 changed the priorities and funding for state level child welfare agencies?

Author of Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City’s Child Welfare System and Anthropology Professor at University of Wisconsin Stout campus, Tina Lee joins the WBI show for our 3rd episode examining the child welfare or family regulation system. We need systems that provide support for families instead of punishing and surveilling them. 

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Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis

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Show Notes: 
Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse by Richard Wexler
Children as Chattel: Invoking the Thirteenth Amendment to Reform Child Welfare Note 1 Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal 2003
Shattered Bonds The Color Of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
A Fiji Junket, a Padlocked Office and a Pioneering Nonprofit’s Collapse
An Interview with Richard Wexler, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
An ‘Exemplary’ Foster Father, a String of Suspicions and Sexual-Abuse Charges (Published 2016)
Elisa W. v. City of New York - Amended Complaint (Class action lawsuit against ACS and OCFS)
THE PARENT LEGISLATIVE ACTION NETWORK HAILS PASSAGE OF HISTORIC CHILD WELFARE REFORM IN THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE AND URGES THE GOVERNOR TO SIGN THE BILL INTO LAW
Family First Policy Forum Slide Deck (Slide 90 features Virginia Child Welfare Commissioner's slide of kids in large suits counting money)
State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
Data Brief: Child Welfare Investigations and New York City Neighborhoods (2019)
Some Parents Awaiting iPads Got Visit From Child Welfare - THE CITY

Recommendations:
AUTOMATING INEQUALITY How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
Algorithms of Oppression How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

Connecting The Dots: Agroecology in the Global South

From poultry plants in the US South pushing low-wage workers to process 175 birds per minute (BPM), to the slow violence of pesticides in Punjab causing premature disability to the European food sovereignty movement challenging strategies of resisting capitalist discipline imported from digital rights activism- scholars, Carrie Freshour, Divya Sharma and Barbara Van Dyck join the WBI show to connect the dots of agroecology across the global south.

How can we trace the lineage of poultry production to the plantation? What do the oral histories of 80 year old farmers in the Punjab region tell us about ecological degradation and the green revolution? How does transforming our relationship to food, land and each other require a transformation of the state? This extended cut episode addresses these questions and more.

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel

Guests: University of Washington Assistant Professor of Geography Carrie Freshour, University of Sussex Lecturer in Sustainable Development Divya Sharma and Associate Professor at Coventry University in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience Barbara Van Dyck

Music: Drew Lewis
Show Notes:Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination (Interview w/ Rob Wallace)
Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Inequities in the United States - Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, 2020
Divya Sharma - Mobilization for Socio-Ecological Sustainability in post-Green Revolution Punjab
Poultry and Prisons by Carrie Freshour (Monthly Review)
“Ain't No Life For A Mother!” Racial Capitalism And The Crisis Of Social Reproduction by Carrie Freshour
Scholar-activists in an expanding European food sovereignty movement by Barbara Van Dyck
(PDF) Articulating Agrarian Racism: Statistics and Plantationist Empirics by Brian Williams
Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.
What is Revolutionary About The Green Revolution?

Recommended Organizations/Movements:
Saturday Free School
Agroecology Now! - Knowledge, Action, Transformation
Mississippi Minority Farmers Alliance
Kheti Virasat Mission
Study and Struggle
Cooperation Jackson
People’s Archive of Rural India

On New Laws of Robotics (with Frank Pasquale)

Brooklyn Law Professor Frank Pasquale joins the WBI show to discuss his latest book, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI. What are the challenges and promises of serving on the federal health committee as an expert on the legal frameworks of emerging technologies during 45’s reign? How do we reconcile the need to prioritize human expertise while acknowledging the harm often committed by professionals against marginalized communities? We discuss these question and more on the latest episode of the We Be Imagining Podcast. Please send us your questions and comments at WeBeImagining@gmail.com.

Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis

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Recommendations: 
Competition is Killing Us; How Big Business is Killing Our Society and Planet- and What To Do About It
Competition Overdose by How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants By Maurice E. Stucke, Ariel Ezrachi
LPE Project - The Law and Political Economy Project

On Owed (with Joshua Bennett)

What becomes available when Black people come together? How do we understand Mike Brown, a child unjustly slain by the state as a kind of Christ? Poet and Scholar, Joshua Bennett joins the WBI show to discuss operating out of an archive of air, the shape of Black ideas, Black exuberance and joy. We chop it up about the praxis of police abolition, the choreography of anti-colonial navigation in the academy, the indebtedness of America to Black folks and the the debt owed by America to Black folks. Read Owed, the second book released by Bennett this year and check out this episode. His many references are in the show notes.

Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman and Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis

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Links to the episode:Still Life With First Best Friend
Against Consuming Images of the Brutalized, Dead, and Dying
Being Properly Once Myself
Sobbing School
How It Feels to Be Colored Me, by Zora Neale Hurston
Owed to Eminem by June Jordan
Legendary Nikki Giovanni Speaks on her "Thug Life" Tattoo + New Book "Chasing Utopia"
CHANGE: A World Without Prisons - Ruth Wilson Gilmore in Conversation with Mariame Kaba
NAACP | NAACP History: Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Mis-Education of the Negro
In the Break — by Fred Moten
Gwendolyn Brooks | Primer for Blacks

Recommendations: 
Black and American, 1982 by David Bradley
Parenting for Liberation: A Guide For Raising Black Children by Trina Greene Brown
No Humans Involved by Sylvia Wynters

Let’s Talk About Sex Work (with Heaux in the Kneaux)

Episode Transcript

How does legislation touted as protecting children from sex trafficking actually harm consenusal sex workers
and serve as a trojan horse attacking encryption and privacy rights of our broader society? What does it mean to do racial justice as a dominatrix? We discuss these questions as well as uplift the work of organizations led by and for sex workers around unionization and digital rights.

Selena the Stripper and the Goddess Cori, hosts of Heaux in the Kneaux podcast join the WBI show to discuss
the 2018 Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) as well as their 2020 descendant, the Earn It Act. This is the kick off to our second season where we look forward to inviting hosts of our favorite podcasts onto We Be Imagining to diversify the conversations around privacy, surveillance and digital rights beyond academics.

Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman
Music: Drew Lewis
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Links to the Episode:
Hacking and Hustling
Soldiers of Pole: A Stripper Union Movement - Learn About Your Rights
Strippers Are Workers With the Power to Unionize
Strippers And Giggers: Unionize Now | by Antonia Crane | PULPMAG
L.A.'s Exotic Dancers Are Launching a Labor Movement
SWOP USA
Analysis | Has the sex-trafficking law eliminated 90 percent of sex-trafficking ads?
FOSTA-SESTA anti-sex-trafficking law has been a failure: opinion
Analysis | The Four-Pinocchio claim that ‘on average, girls first become victims of sex trafficking at 13 years old’
Warren, Sanders back bill that could uncover violence against sex workers

Follow on IG:
#stripperstrike (@pdxstripperstrike) 
EastLondonStrippersCollective (@ethicalstripper)
Hacking//Hustling (@hackinghustling)

Grief and Out The Ashes (with Mimi Onuha)

Nigerian-American artist and researcher, Mimi Onuha, whose work highlights the social relationships and power dynamics behind data collection, joins the WBI show. We spend a lot of time in the beginning of this episode exploring Mimi’s undergraduate thesis Death on Facebook to understand how different cultural practices around death and birth are allowed in western society and mediated in the digital. We think together about how these rituals—fundamental to being human—are happening on commercial platforms we know we don’t own or govern. We connect on these *public* forums anyway because we yearn to be seen.

Out of the ashes of this loss, we dream about building alternative sociotechnical systems to further liberation, think about the racial tension between Black Americans and African immigrants in STEM academia, and end with a cypher round on hope and possibility.

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Stanley Muñoz and Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis

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Links to the episode:
This AI Knows When You'll Die and Its Creators Don't Know How
Can big data save these children? 
When Proof Is Not Enough
White Witness and the Contemporary Lynching
Inside Makoko: danger and ingenuity in the world's biggest floating slum

Recommendations:
Mimi Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, Momtaza Mehri, Better Get It On Your Soul by Charles Mingus
Stanley Kindred by Octavia Butler, Love Death and Robots (Multiversity Episode/Netflix), Papi Pacify by FKA Twigs and Jhene Aiko’s Come On
Ilan Blowback podcast on the Iraq War
Khadijah Epistrophies — Brent Hayes Edwards

Thinking Bout a Black Sense of Place (w/ Treva Ellison and Romi Morrison)

Multimedia artist and scholar whose work enacts Blackness as the imaginative capacity to desire and enact something else and otherwise, Treva Ellison joins the WBI show in conversation with Romi Morrison. Romi is an interdisciplinary designer, artist, and researcher working across new media, Black feminist praxis, and cultural geography. 

Together we think out loud about the epistemic assumptions embedded in sociotechnical systems that aim to calculate Black life; how Blackness is so much more than being a subject of violence. 

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Stanley Muñoz

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Links for the episode:

Treva Ellison: Black Trans Reproductive Labor | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Towards a politics of perfect disorder: carceral geographies, queer criminality, and other ways to be
Lloyd's map of the lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico
On plantations, prisons, and a Black sense of place
Radicalcartography
Racialized Topographies: Altitude and Race in Southern Cities
Black Geographies and the Politics of Place
What the Sands Remember | GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Counter-mapping data science

Recommendations:
Treva: Keyboard Fantasies | Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Romi: Anyone who can get to water moving water, just, go listen to it. That’s been really coming though for me; the rain, the water, being near any kind of river, being able to put barefoot in soil to ground. 

Black Families Matter: Ending Family Regulation Systems (with Dorothy Roberts and Lisa Sangoi)

Dorothy Roberts, acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare joins the WBI show with co-founder of Movement for Family Power, Lisa Sangoi, to discuss the history of the American child welfare system. Better understood as a family regulation system, the state began systematically targeting Black families for punishment and surveillance as a matter of *child welfare* policy in the 1960s coinciding with mainly Black mothers demanding inclusion into public assistance programs.

Why do so few people know about the multibillion dollar surveillance apparatus able to knock on the door and remove your child on the basis of racist stereotypes with not even as much as miranda rights being read? How can we begin to dismantle a system that articulates its violence in the language of care and benevolence?

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman and Stanley Muñoz

Links for the Episode:
Strengthened Bonds:  Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-envisioning Child Well-Being March 26, 2021 symposium – Columbia Law School
Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation
Black Families Matter: How the Child Welfare System Punishes Poor Families of Color
Children as Chattel: Invoking the Thirteenth Amendment to Reform Child Welfare Note 1 Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal 2003
Black Families Matter: How the Child Welfare System Punishes Poor Families of Color

Recommendations:
Lisa Morning Raggas (Spotify Playlist)
Dorothy Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
Khadijah Catching a Case Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare System by Tina Lee
Stanley Fela Kuti - Water no get enemy

Kashmir: Counter-mapping an Occupation

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at MCLA, Mohamad Junaid and Lafayette College Assistant Professor, Hafsa Kanjwal join the WBI show to discuss the the acceleration of the settler colonial project in Kashmir and the continued fight for Azadi (or self-determination). The Indian BJP government’s recent passage of the domicile law in Jammu and Kashmir is a move towards ethnically cleansing the occupied territory.  Last November, Indian Consul General in New York, Sandeep Chakravorty, advocated for this law in order to introduce “Israeli model” settlements into Kashmir.

“I don’t keep calm, I’m continuously in outrage, I don’t have any spiritual solace, I don’t have any calm, everyday is like a new mourning,” Junaid shares. He finds hope in Kashmiri writers, activists and artists a generation removed from state sanctioned illiteracy now documenting the desire and struggle for national liberation to the rest of the world. 

“Bollywood is India’s kind of wet dream...Initially kind of creating this desire for the beautiful landscape without any regard for the local ‘ignorant people they needed to modernize,’” Kanjwal provocatively comments, drawing out the sophisticated ways in which Hindu nationalist culture legitimizes the state sanctioned erasure and potentially the extermination of the Kashmiri people.

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Simi a.k.a. Skanda Kadirgamar
Music: Drew Lewis

Links for the Episode:
INDIA'S 10 STEPS TO SETTLER COLONIALISM IN KASHMIR | by Stand with Kashmir
Counter-maps of the ordinary: occupation, subjectivity, and walking under curfew in Kashmir
Reflections on the Post-Partition Period: Life Narratives of Kashmiri Muslims in Contemporary Kashmir
Many retired Gorkha soldiers in 6.6k to get J&K domicile
What does the domicile law mean for Kashmir?
Section 377: A timeline of India's battle for gay rights — Quartz India

Recommendations:
Hafsa The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity | Darryl Li, The Kashmir Syllabus | StandWithKashmir
Junaid An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, A Desolation Called Peace: Voices from Kashmir by Ather Zia, Javaid Iqbal Bhat, Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Read 'Hum Dekhenge' and seven other poems for 2020 in translation
Simi Jallad: Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia|, The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher

Hidden Fibers: Mapping the intimacies and infrastructure between information capital and policing (with Brian Jefferson)

Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois and author of Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age, Brian Jefferson joins the WBI show to discuss the history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years. We cover everything from Deleuze to how the ‘92 production of Candyman hits different now. Keep it locked to the We Be Imagining podcast to hear from scholars, journalists and activists at the intersection of tech, race and data policy.

How did the War on Terror provide the impetus and funding for the NYPD to set up a separate proprietary fiber optic cable network for their surveillance infrastructure in the backdrop of historically low crime rates? How are IT companies—that are the equivalent of industrial manufacturing companies in the late 18th century—actively driving urban policies and the physical infrastructure of 21st century smart cities? 

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Stanley Muñoz and Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis

Links for the Episode:
Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by Alexander Galloway
Leading Foundations Pledge to Give More, Hoping to Upend Philanthropy
How China Uses High-Tech Surveillance to Subdue Minorities
Adolphe Quetelet and the Evolution of Body Mass Index (BMI)

Recommendations:
Brian Bridge Trilogy Series by William Gibson, RZA as Bobby Digital, El Producto, Cannibal Ox
Ilan Radical Perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia Pacific
Stanley Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book by Hortense J. Spillers, Wiz Kid
Khadijah Homies by Danez Smith

Sipping on NYPD Tears: Public Oversight of Surveillance Technologies (with Rashida Richardson)

Episode Transcript

Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy at the AI Now Institute joins the WBI show to discuss the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act she wrote while at NYCLU, the limitations of the law as a tool in addressing or mitigating the harm of automated decision making systems (ADSs) and the amount of time she has for institutions waking up from their 450 year slumber to the realities of racial capitalism.

How can we distinguish the types of action big tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon and IBM are taking to respond to public demands to end contracts with law enforcement? She puts us on the spot asking, will the title of this podcast will get to most of America? Will we have a little more imagination on what makes an actually racially equitable and just society because the efforts of most of these institutions are still drawing on logic based on assimilation, “here let’s throw a few things at you and let’s go back to business as usual”?

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Stanley Muñoz and Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis

Links for the Episode:
A Shadow Report of the New York City Automated Decision System Task Force
POST Act
New York City Council Committee on Public Safety Creating Comprehensive Reporting and Oversight of NYPD Surveillance Technologies

Recommendations:
Rashida Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, Authors: Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, Exclusive first look at Bruce Lee 30 for 30 'Be Water'
llan Junkspace by Rem Koolhaas
Stanley Black Study, Black Struggle, Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Khadijah Architectures of Sound : Michael Fowler, Demonic Grounds, NYC Trans Oral History Project

Policing by Air(with Andrea Miller)

Episode Transcript

Andrea Miller, soon to be a faculty member of Florida Atlantic University this fall, joins the WBI show to discuss her research interests including critical military and police studies, racialization, drone warfare and preemption, cybersecurity and algorithmic governance, ecosystem ecology, and the politics of extraction and infrastructure. 

How do some digital technologies that are operationalized in the war on terror really emerge through circuits and histories of racialized policing? How can we understand drones as complex infrastructures and trace them back through the use of air power by military and local police departments? Is the police response to protests representative of a strategy and tactics or is the state being reactionary—responding in full force to threats to its consolidation of power?

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Stanley Muñoz and Ilan Mandel
Music: Drew Lewis

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Links for Episode:
DRONE VISION AND PROTEST
Badges Without Borders by Stuart Schrader
Command of the Army, Charles Gwynn and Imperial Policing: The British Doctrinal Approach to Internal Security in Palestine 1919–29

Recommendations:
Andrea Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, The End of Policing & Police: A Field Guide
Ilan Tracing Paper by Mitch Anzouni in Logic Magazine
Stanley All Boys Aren't Blue | George M. Johnson | Macmillan
Khadijah Misdemeanorland Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing by Issa Kohler-Hausmann and Hitchhik

A Black Waiting (with Katherine McKittrick)

Episode Transcript

Katherine McKittrick, Professor of Gender Studies at Queens University and author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and The Cartographies of Struggle, joins the WBI show to discuss her interdisciplinary research attending to the links between theories of liberation, Black studies, and cultural production. How do we nurture patience or sitting with ideas for a long time when the need to understand or react to what’s happening in the street feels so immediate and visceral? How do we sustain the struggle against white supremacy and deal with the unknowability of the moment?

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman and Tao Leigh Goffe
Music: Drew Lewis

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Links for Episode:

“In The Interval”: Frantz Fanon and the “Problems” of Visual Representation
Gil Scott-Heron - Bicentennial Blues ( 1976 )
Development Arrested The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta by Clyde Woods
Novel and History Plot and Plantation

Recommendations:
Katherine Sade, Betty Davis, Millie Jackson, Imperial Intimacies A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V. Carby
Tao 2021 by Jota Mombaça
Khadijah Legendary Nikki Giovanni Speaks on her "Thug Life" Tattoo + New Book "Chasing Utopia", Being Property Once Myself — Joshua Bennet

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

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

Tired of the Future, Time for the Now (with Josh Scannell)

Episode Transcript

Assistant Professor of Digital Media Theory at New School’s School of Media Studies and author of This is Not a Minority Report: Predictive policing and population racism, Joshua Scannell joins the WBI show.

How do calls for police transparency miss the ways predictive policing claims to have ownership of the future through surveilling the present? How does speculative fiction embody and intervene in our anxieties of American racial capitalism? Drawing on his essay in Ruha Benjamin’s collection, Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life, Josh invokes the words of Black studies scholars including Christina Sharpe in challenging us to see the world otherwise. 

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Links for Episode:
The Commish (William Bratton's memoir)
The Contradictions of Chicago Police's Secretive List
Measuring What Matters 1992
Policing Is an Information Business
ShotSpotter: Home

Recommendations:
Josh Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius Scott
Ilan The Secret Life of Urban Crows
Stanley Brother to Brother: Writings by Black Gay Men, Tongues Untied(Movie) 
Khadijah Money Heist (TV Show)

Don't Google It (With Safiya Noble)

Episode Transcript

UCLA Associate Professor, author of Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble joins the WBI show to discuss the mythologies of commercial search engines and digital redlining. How can we collectively reimagine an alternative public interest technology to off-loading societal knowledge onto commercial platforms like Google? What are the challenges of content moderation in the textual realm of search on Google as compared to their video based content on YouTube?

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Stanley Muñoz
Music: Drew Lewis

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Links for Episode:
YouTube: hours of video uploaded every minute 2019

Recommendations:

Safiya Black Software - Charlton D. McIlwain
Ilan Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
Stanley Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts
Khadijah Patience and Fortitude by Scott Sherman

Transcript pending

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

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

Designing Machine Learning Models That Shift Power (with Ria Kalluri)

Episode Transcript

AI researcher and multidisciplinary artist working on AI and art that is anti-oppressive and queerly beautiful, Ria Kalluri joins the WBI show. How do we shift power when developing machine learning models? 

Hosts: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan Mandel and Stanley Muñoz
Music: Drew Lewis

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Recommendations:

Ria Braiding Sweet Grass: INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Stanley Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Ilan The Invasion of Venezuela, Brought To You By Silvercorp USA - bellingcat
Khadijah The gut–brain axis mediates sugar preference

Transcript pending

Minisode 3 - Voices of Rikers Island

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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ARTIST: MIR SUHAIL

Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman
Music: Drew Lewis

Links for Episode:

Rikers Inmates Pepper Sprayed for Demanding Medical Care, Sources Say
COVID-19 Infection Tracking in NYC Jails via Legal Aid Society