Young, Black and writing a thesis in a preventable global pandemic. Documenting what I remember along the way.

Technologies, in the contemporary sense, are typically thought of as machines used to make a task easier. Technologies can function as machine but also as mechanism — a force that is felt but never seen. By decoupling race from biology we can
This book was a good primer on the history of the infrastructure of the tech world. As a Millennial, I grew up at the same time as technology did in many ways so I don’t think I ever really though about the structures of technology, its always
Reminder: having to vote in person during a pandemic is not normal. I voted a few weeks ago. For me it was a painless process (in and out in 20 mins) but for many other tomorrow it won’t be. It’s very difficult for me to concentrate on w
I just learned October is Black Speculative Fiction Month. If you’re not hip to Octavia Butler, get hip. I read (listened) to these books as a means to get my imagination going as I figured out what I wanted my thesis topic to be. Removing
I always struggle with starting a new project. I know once I start I’ll be fine but actually starting is a THING. What we not finna do, however, is act like their isn’t a global pandemic happening in the middle of an election year with r
This book was damn good. If you’re a designer like me or a maker of any sort, it’s a definite read. It has some great critiques of design as a practice and designers as practitioners. This’ll be the jumping off point for my researc
Design is 3% Black. Out of that 3% there’s probably not that many Black designers working on their thesis in the middle of a global pandemic. Then there’s me. This page will be a look into how I did graduate level design research and sim