Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella)
@kanarinka.bsky.social
Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
I'm so proud to have contributed to this transnational, feminist labor of love!
Priscyll Anctil Avoine@priscyll.bsky.social · last wk.Pushing the Fronteras is out 🔥 4 years of collective work, love & friendship, amazing activists, scholars, practitioners, drawing on years of Feminist Security Studies - yet pushing its contours further✊🏾 📚 Open Access: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Proposed rule OMB-2026–0034 will devastate US science and destroy the scientific talent pipeline in the country. Here is the comment I submitted about the rule: medium.com/data-feminis... You can make public comments until Mon, Jul 13th. Please do it and reach out to your colleagues to do the same!
Stop the Attack on US Science: Comment to the OMB about proposed rule OMB-2026–0034
The US government is attempting to modify how it allocates federal research dollars through a new proposed rule: “Regulation for Federal…
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The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
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"If this rule change goes forward, science in the US “will stop,” says Colette Delawalla, the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science. “It won’t exist anymore.”"
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · last mo.You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
Extra bonus! Preorder from B&N before Friday and get 25% off AND a bookplate (which you will be able to stick in the front of the book once it arrives) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/data-by-de...
Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science
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Lauren Klein@laurenfklein.bsky.social · last mo.Riso-printed! Hand-signed! An actual physical thing you can get in the mail! We're sending these bookplates to everyone who preorders DATA BY DESIGN. Drop your address here and we'll send one to you: forms.gle/tK4Dyx1DFvte...
You can pre-order DATA BY DESIGN now and also get a beautiful bookplate in the mail! 😍
Lauren Klein@laurenfklein.bsky.social · last mo.Riso-printed! Hand-signed! An actual physical thing you can get in the mail! We're sending these bookplates to everyone who preorders DATA BY DESIGN. Drop your address here and we'll send one to you: forms.gle/tK4Dyx1DFvte...
CITR just submitted a request to intervene on behalf of technology researchers in the X v. European Commission case to explain the importance of the DSA’s data access rules to the CJEU. (⅓) independenttechresearch.org/citr-members...
CITR Members Intervene in DSA Court Case to uphold Data Access for Public Interest Research - Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Members of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research today requested leave to intervene in X v. European Commission. X’s Digital Services Act violations have prevented researchers from using p...
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‼️ Bad Internet Bills, disguised as “kids safety” bills, are moving through Congress again ‼️ It's time to get those phones in Congress ringing off the hooks again w/ one simple message: we refuse any bill that age restricts, censors & surveils the Internet. : www.politico.com/live-updates...
Lawmakers cement bipartisan deal for kids online safety package
The new package complicates a separate push for a kids safety bill coming from the Senate.
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We call for AI tech companies to refrain from entering into or fulfilling contracts with military agencies or armed groups that commit possible violations of international law www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
Access Now - Joint statement on AI in warfare
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are…
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anthropic: we have no way of controlling our fully autonomous, "recursively self-improving" model hidden gig workers, RLHF annotators, and seemingly invisible coders & academics that are *actually* improving the model: hold my beer africa.businessinsider.com/news/inside-...
BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
Data Feminism for Data Visualization
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Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up
So, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes a brilliant (as usual) op-ed about genAI and some tech bro attempts to ridicule it. The guy, Mike Solana, is probably not worth my time but it seems he's gay and as a Gay, I am unduly annoyed by evil gays. Also, I'm bored. So here's my debunking of this guy.
Receipts are receipts — Chad M. Topaz
A response to Pirate Wires on Tressie McMillan Cottom. Solana mocked her NYT column on celebrity AI promotion without disclosing that his employer Founders Fund is invested in the companies she critiq...
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"As crises get stacked, we are in need of new forms to address them." Patti Duncan, editor of Feminist Formations, discusses the proliferation of genres and methods in response to the current moment. Read or listen at the link!
Feminist Scholarly Writing under Authoritarianism, a Conversation with Debjani Chakravarty, Patti Duncan, and Jennifer C. Nash
Editors of the interdisciplinary journals Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Frontiers, and Signs discuss the second Trump administration’s attacks on women’s and gender studies.
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The investigation into Smith College began because Rachel Levine gave the commencement address last year. Smith College has had male commencement speakers before but it's having a trans speaker that caused the Trump admin to go after them. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/04/m...
Trump probe into Smith College transgender policy was sparked by choice of commencement speaker - The Boston Globe
After Smith awarded an honorary degree to Admiral Rachel L. Levine, a transgender woman and former Biden official, a conservative watchdog group filed a federal complaint.
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It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 4mo agoThe CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Brilliant! Everyone buy bell hooks' book Communion on June 16th! (the release date of JD Vance's book Communion).
Jess House@jesshouse.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.
We've upped the ante—this time @sellars.bsky.social and I represented organizations and attorneys with more than 575 years of 1A practice experience explaining why the law firms should win and DOJ should lose in the D.C. Circuit case about the executive orders. theintercept.com/2026/04/02/p...
The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund Leads Cohort Fighting Trump’s Unconstitutional Media Attacks
A cohort of 42 media and press freedom advocates, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief opposing Trump's attempts to censor the press.
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2/2 Four or five weeks from today we'll launch 'Feminist Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social, which I'm editing right now. You're going to enjoy this one a lot. openvisualizationacademy.org On April 15 we'll announce 10+ more instructors and courses.
Open Visualization Academy
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The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4mo agoThe American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...
I spoke with @rollingstone.com about the Trump administration's new AI framework. At a moment when a majority of Americans are asking for AI guardrails, this proposal moves in the opposite direction. Rather that constrain companies, it releases them from accountability. 🧵 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 5mo ago@alondra.bsky.social talks about the new AI policy doc from the administration. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/
The Ratchet
In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...
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ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts
DHS Contracts Explorer
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With the cover now finalized, I am pleased to announce my forthcoming book: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. Available this October from @ucpress.bsky.social s. 🧵 1/4
Join us for a conversation with @libbyadler.bsky.social and @kjrawson.bsky.social on Trump’s anti-trans and anti-gender executive orders. Check out our new Ask a Feminist here! (sub. req’d): buff.ly/EnaLrDO
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The admin's new immigration policy targeting people working in fields like misinfo research, fact-checking, and content moderation — labeling their work “censorship” — crosses a constitutional line. Read more about our challenge to this policy with @knightcolumbia.org 🔗 https://protdem.org/4b6fIV9
I just published a short excerpt from my book, Counting Feminicide, to honor the legacy of Carmen Castelló, pathbreaking auntie and caregiver, who monitored feminicide in Puerto Rico: medium.com/data-feminis...
Honoring the legacy of Carmen Castelló, pathbreaking auntie and caregiver, who monitored feminicide…
I learned recently about the passing of Carmen Castelló and was very saddened to hear the news. In her honor, I wanted to post an excerpt…
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How is it possible that in 2026 if I want to read a PDF smoothly I still have to "Enable scrolling"?