Adam Blaustein Rejto| freerads.org
Zine-troduction Typical career fair advice looks something like this: put on a blazer, print copies of your resume, practice handshakes. But do these tips really prepare you to enter a room full of representatives for companies that often design drones and surveillance systems, maintain toxic working conditions, and gentrify and displace Black and brown communities? […]| Free Rads
For the first installment of our zine, “Building a Practice of Science and Social Justice”, we look back at the origin story of Free Radicals, and the questions and events that led to our founding:| Free Rads
This post is part of a series of zines that Free Radicals presented at Tiny Tech Zines on August 11, 2019. To see other zines in the series, click HERE. Zine-troduction An innocent selfie gets uploaded to Instagram and goes on a journey that’s a bit more than she bargained for… Follow our selfie on […]| Free Rads
This piece is cross-posted by Stop LAPD Spying Coalition on Medium here. In the wake of nationwide rebellions against police violence, tech companies and their workers are claiming to be in solidar…| Free Rads
As we’ve surveyed in the last posts, technical scientific expertise is a central criterion for a seat at the table for decision-making around new biotechnologies. Where does this expectation come f…| Free Rads
How is the public systematically excluded from discussions about genetic engineering technologies? What strategies might scientists employ to include public opinions within their governance structu…| Free Rads
How does the legacy of the 1975 Asilomar conference inform recent and ongoing regulation of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technologies? How do these regulation structures reproduce social inequities? Fi…| Free Rads
So far, we’ve talked about how the 1975 Asilomar conference created a system in which scientists escaped government and public scrutiny. But whose perspectives and voices were sidelined in the proc…| Free Rads
In this week’s installment: When faced with the scientific possibilities and public hazards of emerging recombinant DNA technology, 1970s molecular biologists are forced to navigate the contentious…| Free Rads
In democratic societies like the U.S., we entrust relevant experts with the task of making hard choices that impact broader society. There is a tacit agreement between technical experts and everybo…| Free Rads
