The tech specs on the back end of Proton still matter. Google and others are “free” bcz of ads and our data is accessible via their servers. Zero-access is not the same as E2EE. Statements and politics and ideologies don’t impact the technical facts of how Proton runs vs how tech-oligarchy works

addendum: typo of 🪡4 because my autotext is 🔥 than fascism and there’s no edit button here 🤖

In the last days, I fortified myself with chosen community for the fight ahead - to protect youth and educators from raids, to defend reproductive freedoms, to protect trans folks, to defend all our bodies and right to autonomy. I do this from a place of unapologetic love and community care 🎤 ⬇️ 8/8

When I headed uptown two days later, to a campus where I am a scholar-in-residence, I was denied access to the campus grounds which used to be freely walkable. Luckily I found a mentor of mine & grabbed a warm seat in a building nearby. That night I talked #surveillancecapitalism w local leaders 7/🪡

The next day, on a train to NYC, I received an email notice to one of my university accounts alerting me that I had been put in a “Scholars Under Fire” database for my teaching and/or research and/or organizing and/or co-conspiring as a queer anti-racist white educator. I put that email on blast 6/🪡

When I went to get on my plane (one of the first to board bcz frequent flyer), I was pulled aside and my laptop was taken out of my hands. The RFID case was taken off and it was physically searched though there was not an attempt at that time there at the gate (at the gate!) to try to login. 5/🪡

I was flying into DC since I was on the east coast anyway, to bring myself to the U.S. capital so that I could stand with #headheartfeet against a racist, sexiest, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic regime.

I fly frequently with ease, with white privilege and expedited security. And yet 4/🪡

I left that intergenerational power building session feeling deeply honored for the invitation, deeply inspired by the youth leaders and deeply hopeful despite the other realities of the day. It’s why I said yes to the invitation in the first place.

Then I got to the airport 3/🪡

Monday morning, the day we celebrate as MLK Day (and which coincided with an authoritarian inauguration in 2025), I hung out with a dozen youth leaders from all over the country who were motivated to work for safer and more inclusive schools and communities for all youth all across the nation 2/🪡