• Stephanie Jones and Natalie Araujo Melo

1. what might computer science look like in the context of abolition?

• BlackCrit → adds nuance to CRT

  • more critical in which anti-Blackness maintains white supremacy

  

  • BlackCrit & Computer Science

  • New Jim Code

    

• facial detection software

  • trained on large datasets

• https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology

• cs curriculum - kinds of technologies that students are being encouraged to create

under examined anti-blackness in cs education

• how cs education emboides anti-black disposability
• what’s at stake as we expand and broaden today’s dominant models of CS education
• considering current CS education initiatives that resuscitate the dead

killing our spirits

• “primitive”
• “quantum supremacy”
• these words carry weight

killing our spirits → bodies

• ideologies for “safety” and “protection” that come with surveillance fail to consider what is being protected: (white), wealth, power, control
• conditional freedom for minoritized communities
  • timnit gebru (tim-nit gib-brew)

killing our spirits → bodies → communities

• neoliberal claims that STEM will “improve circumstances for minoritized communities”
  • CS education’s “need” to expand, via initiatives that bring access to computing for all masks its role in exploiting minoritized communities for land, labour, and resources