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Ashe Dryden
@ashedryden.bsky.social
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Studying the impact of tech on the most marginalized peoples informed by history, abolition, & my oversized heart. Made AlterConf & Fund Club. #STS #Sociology #PublicInterestTech #Tech #Surveillance #Inequality #AntiRacism #AntiCapitalist #AntiFascist
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · Nov 13
An introduction! 🙆🏼‍♀️💕

I'm interested in how tech & society interact in ways that impact marginalized people.

I'm known for AlterConf & Fund Club.

I talk about sociology, tech, surveillance, anti-capitalism, & books. I’m interested in the history of white supremacy and anti-Black racism in the US.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d
One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
These especially seem up my alley, thanks!
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
Ooh, got any faves?
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah I would absolutely watch that
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
As always, I recommend looking at the trigger warnings in the links to TheStoryGraph before diving in <3

You can see the whole list here: bookshop.org/lists/micro-...

Do you have a favorite micro-history that I missed?
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (app.thestorygraph.com/books/ce0f83...) An amazing tale of early epidemiological detective work, a doctor and a reverend in 1850's London attempt to unravel the mystery of why so many people are dying from cholera in a relatively concentrated area in Soho.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malc...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
Inside the Dream Palace by Sherri Tippins (app.thestorygraph.com/books/29e77c...) Step into the storied life of New York's famed Chelsea Hotel. Home to Bob Dylan, Sid Vicious, Andy Warhol, Dylan Thomas, Dee Dee Ramone, Mark Twain, Janis Joplin, & Arthur C. Clarke. Its walls have seen a thing or two.
Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel by Sherill Tippins
Winner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing "Tippins tells riveting stories abo...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (app.thestorygraph.com/books/f065e0...) This "definitive" book provides the evidence that racism isn't the result of some random ignorant people, but was an intentional, concerted effort to justify slavery and everything that would come after it.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply root...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum (app.thestorygraph.com/books/a22ba5...) A companion to the previous. Covers the food adulteration rampant in the late 1800s/early 1900s, when capitalists realized they could stretch their product by adding fillers and hiding their rot with new chemical processes.
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum
By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formalde...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum (app.thestorygraph.com/books/214c46...) A medical examiner and a toxicologist investigate deaths in 1920s NY. Cases include "a family mysteriously stricken bald, factory workers with crumbling bones, a diner serving poisoned pies" and more.
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the ve...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides (app.thestorygraph.com/books/1ca029...) Discover the North Pole with 32 men setting sail from SF! This is in an era when there was a widely-held theory that there was a hole at the top of the world that allowed people to travel into the world inside our own.
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from S...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall (app.thestorygraph.com/books/e91c94...) We don't often think about the consequences of geography. Take a tour through Russia, USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, Korea, Greenland, & more, revealing the almost predestined fate of these regions.
Prisoners of Geography, Volume 1: Ten Maps That Explain Everything about the World by Tim Marshall
In this New York Times bestseller, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions t...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (app.thestorygraph.com/books/257bf0...) Recounts the Troubles in Northern Ireland through the eyes of the people impacted by a Belfast mother's abduction by masked men. This is also a limited series on Hulu (US), though it was a little too violent for me.
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast ...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 1d
It's Friday, which means #FridayBookRecs! This week we are doing micro-histories, which are a social history of a specific thing. These are all written in a narrative-style, so if you're more of a fiction lover at heart, these will appeal to you, too. 📚
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 4d
"Police spend considerably more time in Black neighborhoods, a disparity which persists after controlling for density, socioeconomics, and crime-driven demand for policing.[R]oughly half of observed racial disparities in arrests are associated with this exposure disparity" arxiv.org/abs/2109.12491
Smartphone Data Reveal Neighborhood-Level Racial Disparities in Police Presence
While extensive, research on policing in America has focused on documented actions such as stops and arrests -- less is known about patrolling and presence. We map the movements of over ten thousand p...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 8d
I have not! I'll add it to my list <3
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 8d
I recommend looking at the trigger warnings for these books on TheStoryGraph before diving in <3

You can see the whole list here: bookshop.org/lists/fictio...
Fiction by Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit authors
A little over a decade ago, I started reading with specific intentions in mind.
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 8d
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree, Canada) (app.thestorygraph.com/books/baaa75...)
Two spirit/Indigiqueer fiction. A cybersex worker in the city has to return to the reservation for his step-father's funeral, leading to a sense of growth and renewal.
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award "You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra t...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 8d
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe, US) (app.thestorygraph.com/books/46502d...)
In a dystopian world where humans seem to be evolving backwards, a young pregnant woman is looking for her birth mom.
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
A New York Times Notable BookLouise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 8d
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (Wasauksing, Canada) (app.thestorygraph.com/books/3291f5...)
Another horror-ish novel part of a (currently) duology. The power goes out long-term in a remote Anishinaabe town. White men come seeking refuge, to disastrous results.
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voiceWith winter looming, a sm...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 8d
There There by Tommy Orange (Cheyenne & Arapaho, US) (app.thestorygraph.com/books/7cbab8...)
Follows multiple people on their way to the Big Oakland Powwow in CA. Each has their own struggles tied to histories of ancestral trauma, identity, and belonging.
There There by Tommy Orange
ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW WINNER OF THE CENTER FOR FIC...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 8d
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis (Gwichʼin, US) (app.thestorygraph.com/books/179b3b...)
Historical fiction that follows two old women who had to be left behind during a tough migration. This one stuck with me for a long time and is a book I recommend frequently.
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis
No one should miss this beautiful legend. -- Tony HillermanBased on an Athabascan Indian legend p...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 8d
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet, US) (app.thestorygraph.com/books/794376...)
Four young men make the mistake of hunting on land reserved for elders, setting off a series of events that lead to multiple deaths. Are they just paranoid, or is Elk Head Women back for revenge?
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
From New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a novel that is equal parts psy...
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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 8d
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Pueblo, US) (app.thestorygraph.com/books/faed9f...)
1st in a fantasy series set in pre-Columbian America. A ship captain transports a mysterious passenger for a ceremony during a solar eclipse. Meanwhile, the city prepares for the return of a god seeking vengeance.
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book i...
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