I'm mia and I'm 18 years old and I've lived in the bay area my whole life. Some things that I like are animals, sports, art, and nature. I have two dogs, a chichuahua and a yorkie-poo and also have volenteer and work experience with amimals. I have played varius sports including my favorite, swimming as well as basketball, soccer, track and cross country. Here at Mills I plan to study Biology to prepare for my medical career.
From reading Brenda Allen’s book Difference Matters I learned a lot about racial difference and the systematic ideologies behind white supremacy. Some of the racist ideologies behind systematic oppression are also expressed through the digital space and lead to further oppression. In the film Coded Bias, Joy Buolamwini, an M.I.T. media lab researcher investigates bias in facial recognition algorithms. She shares how technology is made by and tailored to white men. She found that women and people of color were less likely to black, brown, and queer ppl. Police are using this racially biased facial recognition technology to find and identify criminals.
In our society like most, people in higher social classes are generally more respected and on a higher level of the social pyramid than those with less money granting them more privileges such as plentiful access to digital devices. The digital divide is a term used to describe the divide that keeps minority groups like people of color and those from lower social classes restricted from access to technology due to a lack of funds.