Social Justice

A powerful work by NYU professor, data scientist, and one of the few Black women AI researchers, Meredith Broussard. Reveals how tech neutrality is a myth and algorithms need accountability. From facial recognition only trained on lighter skin tones, to mortgage algorithms encouraging discriminatory lending, to dangerous feedback loops in medical diagnostic algorithms. Solution isn't making omnipresent tech more inclusive, but rooting out algorithms that target demographics as 'other.'

Shon Faye argues that trans justice is inseparable from healthcare, housing, work, sex work, prison, migration, class, and social justice.

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Drawing on fieldwork in Paraguay, Morgan G. Ames follows One Laptop per Child to show how technological salvation projects universalize privileged childhoods and erase teachers, care, and infrastructure.

Harriet A. Washington studies how environmental racism harms Black, Latinx, and Native communities through lead, pollution, toxic exposure, and policy neglect.

A medical professor’s pursuit of accountability after suspected sexual abuse becomes an abrasive study of institutional denial, maternal pressure, and the costs of being believed only when one performs the perfect victim.