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Trustpassing Zines
Volume 1: Technology Gives You Freedom
Volume 1: Technology Gives You Freedom
Volume 1, Technology Gives You Freedom, moves from the emancipatory potential of technology to the vulnerabilities and harms participants encounter online and offline, establishing the relationship between material and digital forms of security and safety. Trustpassing is a series of four zines that share collective stories from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, about how digital vulnerabilities intersect with material forms of security and safety, including but not limited to emergency housing, sex workers’ rights, job security, policing and law enforcement, and access to safe spaces. The zines stem from a community-centred project in partnership with the Sex Workers' Action Program (SWAP) Hamilton.
Volume 2: Insecurity is Good Business
Volume 2: Insecurity is Good Business
Volume 2, Insecurity Is Good Business, examines how insecurities are built into technological infrastructures, from social media platforms to law enforcement systems, and how people are 'secured' in uneven and inequitable ways. Trustpassing is a series of four zines that share collective stories from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, about how digital vulnerabilities intersect with material forms of security and safety, including but not limited to emergency housing, sex workers’ rights, job security, policing and law enforcement, and access to safe spaces. The zines stem from a community-centred project in partnership with the Sex Workers' Action Program (SWAP) Hamilton.
Volume 3: We All Feel Secure Until We Are Not
Volume 3: We All Feel Secure Until We Are Not
Volume 4: Digital Safety Doesn’t Mean You’re Safe
Volume 4: Digital Safety Doesn’t Mean You’re Safe
Volume 4, Digital Safety Doesn’t Mean You’re Safe, turns toward mitigation strategies used by street-based sex workers and expands into broader questions about what constitutes safety and security, emphasizing that these concepts are not universal. It surfaces key insights into potential forms of (digital) safety that could make street-based work safer, offering an open-ended proposition about what becomes prioritized and what is overlooked when we talk about safety and security. Trustpassing is a series of four zines that share collective stories from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, about how digital vulnerabilities intersect with material forms of security and safety, including but not limited to emergency housing, sex workers’ rights, job security, policing and law enforcement, and access to safe spaces. The zines stem from a community-centred project in partnership the Sex Workers' Action Program (SWAP) Hamilton.
Critical Data
What do data breaches sound like?
What do data breaches sound like?
Breach — HELIOTROPE
Breach — HELIOTROPE
by Andrea Zeffiro In the image above, the cutout figures of Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, and Mark Zuckerberg collide with the iconography of prominent insurrectionists who breached the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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