Amy A. Hasinoff

Pop art blonde woman with finger to lips. Privacy Matters: The Legacy of Griswold. Genderpolicyreport.umn.edu

📅 June 7th marks the 60th Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut. 📜 🏛️

For those concerned about reproductive, gender, and sexual justice, privacy matters. █▬▬

Read Privacy Matters: The Legacy of Griswold

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Sexual Privacy in the AI Era - Gender Policy Report The jurists who wrote Griswold could not have anticipated the shifting nature and significance of privacy in our technological landscape. How can we balance the rights of women and girls to be protect...

What should we do about nonconsensual AI nudes? Personal privacy and sexual autonomy – and the prevention of serious sexual violations – may warrant consent-based restrictions on the creation and distribution of both real and synthetic sexual images. genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/sexual-priva...

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A poster at a conference. With a scarf attached to it in several colors.

Neat thing at this conference: a librarian crocheted a scarf based on how many emails they sent in a year -- posted with their permission.

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A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out. Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.

It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

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I have seen people get thrown face-down onto a hard floor for failing to follow a judge's orders.

I have seen people sent to Rikers Island for refusing to follow a judge's order.

Courts have plenty of hard power. But they only have practice using it against poor people.

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