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Kendra Albert
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Your Work is Not Academic
Back in 2022, I had the honor of presenting at Prefiguring and Resisting Tech: Towards Just Transitions organized by Lilly Irani, Bonnie Fan, Sarah Fox, Vera Khovanskaya, and Esther Choi. They asked speakers to prepare a provocation in response to the question of “What are false solutions offered to the problems of technology and liberation?”. This was mine:
Why Your Meeting Should Have an Agenda
If you work with me, you know that I am kind of a stickler about meeting agendas. I’ve gotten so (in)famous for it that one of my colleagues actually purchased me a plaque for my desk that says “no agenda, no meeting.”
Comments in Oversight Board Gender Identity and Nudity Case
Back in August, my colleague Oliver Haimson and I submitted comments to the “Oversight Board” (an organization that Facebook, now Meta, created to allow users to appeal content moderation decisions). Although I have personally been somewhat skeptical of the Oversight Board, the case before them felt important enough that we had to weigh in.
Enough About FOSTA’s “Unintended Consequences”
It feels inevitable that if you’re talking about FOSTA/SESTA (the federal law passed in 2018 that amended section 230), someone, at some point, will mention that it was aimed at combatting sex trafficking that had unintended impacts on folks doing consensual sex work.
Care, Not Respect: Teaching Professionalism
This was inspired by a conversation with my 2020-2021 student, Kose, as well as conversations with this year’s IfRFA fellows. Thank you Kose, Elias, Iltaff, Nirali, and Makela!
June 2021 Decrim MA Testimony
On June 15, 2021, in solidarity with a number of my sex working comrades, I offered oral testimony to the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary in favor of decriminalizing common nightwalking and against the Nordic model (also known as End Demand, or rather ironically, “the Equality Model”). I’m reposting it here.
Evaluating Apologies
I wrote this a while ago, but it seems relevant today - these are my own personal criteria for evaluating apologies.
The Chatham House Should Not Rule
I often attend events that use the Chatham House Rule.
Their Law: New Essay on Harvard Law Review Blog
I recently published an essay responding to They, Them, and __Theirs, an article on non-binary inclusion. (Yes, the title is a reference to a The Prodigy song.)