Presenting 'Desire Lines: Encoding Queer Digital Futures'
A digital rights organization partnered with a queer arts collective to solicit creative submissions exploring technology, identity, and digital liberation, resulting in a project called 'Desire Lines: Encoding Queer Digital Futures.' The collection centers voices and perspectives often absent from mainstream conversations about surveillance, data, and digital rights.
Why this matters: Most conversations about privacy and surveillance are built around a default user who is not queer, not marginalized, and not especially at risk. That is a gap. Surveillance systems, data collection, and digital control do not land the same way for everyone. LGBTQ people face specific harms from data exposure, platform moderation, and government tracking. Bringing arts and lived experience into this space is not decoration. It is a way of surfacing problems that policy documents tend to miss.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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