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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: Golden M. Owens, Evolutions of Domestic Labor and the System of White Supremacy
Description: University of Washington professor Golden M. Owens gives a fascinating 90 minute workshop detailing the continuum of White Supremacy/Racism in the area of Labor. Professor Owens unpacks "late-nineteenth/early twentieth-century introduction and promotion of laborsaving products and technologies influenced and altered popular perceptions and articulations of domestic work and domestic workers. Examining how this work, once largely performed by Black women, came to be performed by or with the aid of labor-performing technologies, Owens connects this history of laborsaving devices to the present proliferation of artificially intelligent virtual assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and ChatGPT." Gus T ma...