Kevinpelrine

“But, as Critical Resistance has argued, simply diverting resources in this way is no panacea, because schools and public housing as they currently function are an extension of the PIC: many operate with a logic of carcerality and on policies that discriminate against those who have been convicted of crimes. Pouring money into them as they are will only make them more effective in their current function as institutions of social control.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

“We ride rather than drive the innovation wave. Technology will find its inventors, rather than vice versa.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

“Graphic designer Natasha Jen puts it bluntly in her talk “Design Thinking is Bullsh*t,” urging design practitioners to avoid the jargon and buzzwords associated with their field, to engage in more self-criticism, to base their ideas on evidence, and to stop assuming that their five-step process is needed for any and every thing.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

“As Margaret Atwood writes, “Better never means better for everyone … It always means worse, for some.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code