To Democratize Algorithms
Abstract Jurisdictions increasingly employ algorithms in public sector decisionmaking. Facing public outcry about the use of such technologies, jurisdictions have begun to increase democratic participation in the processes by which algorithms are...
Loser
Loser I’m a loser I lose I lost my way I lost my kids I lost my say I lost my power Plucked right out of my chest In my heart’s final hour Motherhood stolen for family court to devour Still I demand and I plead Bring my babies home to me! It’s my...
Abolitionist Aesthetics and the Abolitionist Movement: Los Angeles Grassroots Organizations and the Aesthetic Foundations of Real-Time Abolition
Abstract This Article profiles and interviews seven artists and organizers who are leaders throughout five distinct Los Angeles grassroots, abolitionist organizations at the forefront of dismantling and abolishing the largest penal system in the...
Say Their Names, Support Their Killers: Police Reform After the 2020 Black Lives Matter Uprisings
Abstract Since the unprecedented Summer 2020 uprisings against policing and racism, many elites have embraced an “anti-woke” politics that openly celebrates law-and-order authoritarianism, heteropatriarchy, and white nationalism. This Article...
Executing Racial Justice
Abstract The United States has failed to eliminate racial discrimination in the decades since ratifying the international human rights treaty that prohibits it. To its credit, the Biden administration (Administration) has attempted to center the...