This episode features Alice Wong in conversation with Moya Bailey. Alice shares her experience with disabled activism in the digital era and how the advent of the internet enabled Alice to find community and the tools to create her platform. She elaborates one of her digital campaigns #HighRiskCA, which emerged during the COVID vaccine rollout in 2021. Alice also suggests how academics can be accomplices to disabled activists.

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Featuring

Moya Bailey

Alice Wong

Sponsors

Northwestern University School of Communication

More from our guests:

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network

Board President, Allied Media Projects

Twitter: @moyazb

IG: @transformisogynoir

Alice Wong

Founder and Director of Disability Visibility Project

Twitter: @SFdirewolf @DisVisibility

Instagram: @disability_visibility

Email: DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com

Newsletter: https://disability-visibility-newsletter.ghost.io

Copy and Audio Editor:

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

This episode features Dr. Alex Hanna in conversation with Professor Moya Bailey. Dr. Hanna discusses how the work of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) has activist applications in seeking to mitigate sociotechnical harms and algorithmic injustice. Dr. Hanna further elaborates on how young professionals interested in AI and machine learning can consciously navigate the industry and work to reconstruct harmful sociotechnical frameworks.

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Featuring

Moya Bailey

Alex Hanna

Sponsor:

Northwestern University School of Communication

More from our guests:

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Digital Alchemist | Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network

Board President | Allied Media Projects

Twitter: @moyazb

IG: @transformisogynoir

Alex Hanna

Director of Research | Distributed AI Research Institute

Twitter: @alexhanna

Works Referenced in Episode:

Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency (pp. 610-623).
Spade, D. (2015). Normal life: Administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law. Duke University Press.

Copy and Audio Editor:

Sharlene Burgos

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown

In this episode of Digital Alchemy, academic sisters and political allies, Dr. Beth Richie and Dr. Dána-Ain Davis join Professor Moya Bailey for a conversation about their academic production and social justice work as it pertains to Black feminism, gender-based violence, reproductive injustice, abolition, and medical racism. In the spirit of digital alchemy, which Professor Bailey defines as “black women transform[ing] everyday digital media into valuable social justice magic”, Dr. Richie and Dr. Davis discuss how new technologies can serve as a tool to foster international community and function as an alternate space to continue learning and producing social justice work outside of the confines of academia.

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Featuring

Moya Bailey

Beth Richie

Dána-Ain Davis

Sponsor:

Northwestern University School of Communication

More from our guests:

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Digital Alchemist, Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network

Board President, Allied Media Projects

Twitter: @moyazb

IG: @transformisogynoir

Beth Richie

Head of the Department of Criminology, Law & Justice | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

LAS Distinguished Professor & Professor of Black Studies | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

University of Illinois-Chicago

Dána-Ain Davis

Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Psychology & Director and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies | Graduate Center

Director | Center for the Study of Women and Society

City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center

Works Referenced in Episode:

Bryant-Davis, T. (2019). The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema [Audio Podcast].

Lindley, T. (2022). Black Women's Dept. of Labor with Taja Lindley [Audio Podcast].

Copy and Audio Editors:

Bennett Pack

Sharlene Burgos

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown