Data-driven technologies are at the front and center of the public’s attention these days, thanks to all the buzz around artificial intelligence (AI). But what exactly is and isn’t possible with computational models is often distorted by science fiction scenarios where sentinel robots ruin our lives. …

Emerging digital technologies are reshaping our relationship with the human body and mind. The past years have seen an explosive growth in the amount and variety of online platforms, smartphone apps and other tech-enabled systems that collect detailed physical and behavioural data about us. …

Last September I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. In the past 14 months I went through four major surgeries, radiation treatment, and I embarked on a decade-long medical therapy. I lost one of my breasts and the ability to have more children, and my body is like a crime…

each sensation that shakes your brain like tremor grief deeper than the sum of all aches agony travelling through the bones like free riders on a passenger train damp Novembers that drip through the vein like test tubes blood bitter and thicker making you surrender to each throb dusking your soul freezing the brain when the skin remembers each bruise and sting like memory foam madness lurking in the corner of each mouth and conversation just how much space you take up with pain

I should not look at my body too soon, they said these swollen and bruised breasts one nipple pointing higher, the other laying low neither should I show you stubs that used to nurse you for so long they provided comfort when you were upset can I mourn yet? or cells from these cancerful breasts will travel to the rest of my body brows thinning and medicines making me so sick I won’t want to get out of bed, they said

there is rhythm in how the heart bleeds and the heart bleeds more than the wound after surgery or the leaves flying off the autumn trees and the heart sweats more than the sun that cuts through the incision the way the surgeon’s knife cut through the skin nerves and muscles to get that…

A few weeks ago I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. I spent the last 18 months worrying about my health and the well-being of my loved ones in the face of a global pandemic, completely forgetting about the fact that my life can be threatened by diseases other…

“Our bodies, with the old genetic transmission, have not kept pace with the new language-produced cultural transmission of technology. So now, when social control breaks down, we must expect to see pathological destruction.” –Donna J. Haraway Last summer (which now seems like centuries ago) I was on the beach with…

The coronavirus pandemic — and the unfolding economic, social and political crises that followed — made it abundantly clear that seemingly logical trade-offs between our fundamental rights are arbitrary, misleading and harmful. In this piece I argue that binarism is not only deeply rooted in our thinking, it is also…