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31 Mar, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Happy #TransDayOfVisibility! But trans people need more than visibility. We need housing, safety, food and justice.

Today I'm releasing a video for my song "The Tyranny of Either/Or," made from archival footage of key moments in trans resistance history
Instead of making a lyrics video or whatever, I decided to make this music video into a mini history lesson about the trans and queer liberation movement, from the Compton's Cafeteria Riot to Sylvia Rivera's iconic speech at Christopher St Liberation Day
"Tyranny of Either/Or" is a pop-punk anthem against transphobia and it's the last single before the release of my album "Spotify is Surveillance" on April 9th. All my @bandcamp proceeds from this song will be donated to the @MPJInstitute. #TDOV2021 #TDOV evangreer.bandcamp.com/album/spotify-…
I spoke with @wbur about the story behind this song as an open letter to TERFs and other transphobes, and why I sampled Sylvia Rivera's speech in the intro. wbur.org/artery/2021/03… #TransDayOfVisibility #TDOV #TDOV2021
I also spoke with @pitchfork about why I titled the album "Spotify is Surveillance," & how surveillance capitalism is exacerbating existing forms of oppression within the music industry and beyond, disproportionately harming marginalized artists pitchfork.com/news/evan-gree…

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10 Mar
NEW: here is @fightfortheftr's argument for why private and corporate use of facial recognition surveillance poses just as much of a threat to human rights as government use. We're calling for an outright ban. fightfortheftr.medium.com/why-we-absolut…
There are numerous ways that corporations and even private individuals can use facial recognition to do enormous harm, exacerbating and automating existing forms of oppression and exploitation. Schools, hospitals, retail stores, sporting venues and more are already experimenting.
Our friends @EFF have suggested that an opt-in consent based regulatory framework is sufficient to address this harm. eff.org/deeplinks/2021… We disagree. Biometric surveillance is more like lead paint or nuclear weapons than firearms or alcohol.
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8 Mar
#TransWomenareWomen so here's a thread of badass trans women to learn about and celebrate on #InternationalWomensDay

Let's start with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a veteran of the Stonewall uprising, AIDS activist, prison abolitionist, feminist, and trans liberation organizer. Image
Now on to Wendy Carlos, trans woman musician who helped invent the popular Moog synthesizer. She composed the scores for A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron, as well as "Switched on Bach." An absolute legend and godmother of electronic music. Image
Marsha P. Johnson. Activist. Performer. Drag queen. Stonewall veteran. Sex worker. Founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) Later an AIDS activist with Act-Up. Consistently fought for the most vulnerable. Image
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4 Feb
Before they take it down, here's the video Amazon circulated internally to roll out what amounts to the largest expansion of corporate surveillance in human history: using artificial intelligence enabled cameras on their fleet of thousands of delivery vans theverge.com/2021/2/3/22265…
Had to split it into 3 parts. Here's part 2. These cameras will not only monitor Amazon drivers but also constantly record video to the front and both sides of the vehicle, and analyze it with AI. Amazon says openly they plan to use it to "investigate" things like "package theft"
The AI claims to monitor for things like "distracted driving." We know systems like this that track eye movements exhibit systemic racial bias. We also know Amazon uses "productivity monitoring" software so invasive workers have gotten UTIs cuz they can't take bathroom breaks
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3 Feb
There are a lot of great academics doing super important research about Big Tech, content moderation, and freedom of expression. Their perspectives are important.

But journalists also need to talk to ACTIVISTS, who have actual lived experience using social media for organizing.
Your perspective on things like disinformation & deplatforming change dramatically when you have actually experienced getting deplatformed or algorithmically suppressed or incorrectly flagged as spam just as a campaign is going viral. Even if it's fixed later, the damage is done.
Your average sex worker or Palestine activist knows more about Big Tech power and content moderation than pretty much anyone with a PHD. Sorry not sorry
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2 Feb
My dear friend, mentor, and touring partner of many years, @annefeeney is in the ICU battling COVID. Anne is a living legend of the movement. A radical hellraiser who Utah Phillips called the "greatest labor singer in North America." She's a fighter. Please send some love her way
Anne was the first woman to become the president of a Musicians Union local in the US. She faced violent attacks from right wing union members for being a feminist and openly socialist. Her song "Have You Been to Jail for Justice" has been sung by activists around the world.
.@annefeeney found me at a @PeoplesMusicNet gathering when I was 18 or 19 and offered to take me on tour. She didn't know how young I was and was freaked out when she realized I couldn't drive the rental car. She called my parents to make sure they knew where i was 😂
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31 Jan
This entire article could just as easily be about iMessage or WhatsApp. Fearmongering like this is about encrypted messaging apps is going to put vulnerable people in danger. It’s depressing to see so-called progressives making the same arguments as cops businessinsider.com/signal-extremi…
The "experts" referred to in the headline are not experts on encryption or tech policy or global human rights. Activists in the US are so unbelievably myopic and naval gazing. Ppl need to stop throwing nonsense like this around. It's going to get people killed.
I've been trying to meet people where they're at and acknowledge folks are scared about the rise in right wing violence. But i am just fucking done with people ignoring the concerns of the most vulnerable and calling for "solutions" that will kill the ppl hate groups want to kill
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