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1. Talk was the most common way for enslaved men and women to subvert the rules of their bondage, to gain more agency than they were supposed to have.2. Even in conditions of extreme violence and unfreedom, their words remained ubiquitous, ephemeral, irrepressible, and potentially transgressive.3. Slaves came from societies in which oaths, orations, and

1. The victim’s trauma after assault rarely gets the attention that we lavish on the moment of damage that divided the survivor from a less encumbered past.2. One thing we often do with narratives of sexual assault is sort their respective parties into different temporalities: it seems we are interested in perpetrators’ futures and victims’ pasts.3. One result

1. The logic of displaying one’s inner qualities through outward appearance was based on a distinction between being a woman and being feminine.2. ‘Appearance’ became a signifier of conduct – to look was to be and conformity to the feminine ideal was measured by how well women could use the tools of the fashion and beauty industries.3. The

1. Machine learning models are prone to learning human-like biases from the training data that feeds these algorithms.2. Hate speech detection is part of the on-going effort against oppressive and abusive language on social media.3. The current automatic detection models miss out on something vital: context.4. It uses complex algorithms to flag racist or violent speech faster

1. You can observe the truth of this in every e-business model ever constructed: monopolise and protect data.2. Economists and technologists believe that a new kind of capitalism is being created – different from industrial capitalism as was merchant capitalism.3. In 1962, Kenneth Arrow, the guru of mainstream economics, said that in a free  market economy the

1. For feminists, the question of how we read is inextricably linked with the question of what we read.2. Elaine Showalter’s critique of the literary curriculum is exemplary of this work.3. Androcentric literature structures the reading experience differently depending on the gender of the reader.4. The documentation of this realization was one of the earliest