Tangents
Capturing Black Faces
University of Alberta students call for end to online exam monitoring
Students of colour complain of issues with online exam monitoring software telling
them to move to a room with better lighting
There is a long history of racism in technology when it comes to Black faces
The following video traces this history from problems with Kodak film to recent
issues with facial recognition software
Intersectionality
the interconnected nature of social
categorizations such as race, class, and gender
as they apply to a given individual or group,
regarded as creating overlapping and
interdependent systems of discrimination or
disadvantage. (Oxford Languages)
The term was coined in 1989 by professor
Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class,
gender, and other individual characteristics
“intersect” with one another and overlap.
Intersectionality, explained: meet Kimberlé
Crenshaw, who coined the term
Whorephobia
whorephobia - the fear or hate of sex workers
'A specific kind of racism': Atlanta shootings fuel fears over anti-sex-work ideology
The attack, reactions in the media, the situation these women find themselves in...
Intersection of many factors, including:
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anti-Asian racism
misogyny and the objectification of women… and more specifically, the
objectification and fetishization of Asian women
anti-sex-work sentiment (whorephobia)
immigrant status
low-wage worker status (low socioeconomic status)