Theodora Dryer

@theodorajewell
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writer, historian, critical climate & water policy analyst (she/her)

https://www.theodoradryer.com

Water Justice & Technologyhttps://waterjustice-tech.org/no-ai-colorado-river/

🏆 The #sigcis2025 awards are up!! 🏆

📖 Computer History Museum Prize ➡️ @apdamegriff
*The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet*
https://nyupress.org/9781479818310/the-two-revolutions/

📄 The Mahoney Prize ➡️ @theodorajewell
“Settler Computing: Water Algorithms and the Equitable Apportionment Doctrine on the Colorado River, 1950–1990”
https://doi.org/10.1086/725187

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The Two Revolutions

Winner of the 2023 Ángel David Nieves Book Award, given by the American Studies AssociationThe internet origins of the American transgender movementThe Two ...

NYU Press

Settler Computing:
Water Algorithms and the Equitable Apportionment Doctrine on the Colorado River, 1950–1990

doi.org/10.1086/725187

“Desert Water Scarcity Is a Colonial-Made Crisis“

https://waterjustice-tech.org/new-gold-rush/

» New Gold Rush, Same Genocide: Mining and Draining the Southwest Is Destroying Indigenous Communities in the Name of Sustainable Development

“The Colorado River’s widely publicized “megadrought” crisis provides the most recent excuse for the expansion of colonial datafication or artificial intelligence (AI) of its waterways.”

https://waterjustice-tech.org/no-ai-colorado-river/

» No AI for the Colorado River

» No AI for the Colorado River

introducing the critical carbon computing collective (4C)

prints collab w/ branch magazine 🌱
https://branch.climateaction.tech

Branch Magazine Issue 9 Attunement: Designing in an Era of Constraints

Branch is an online magazine written by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet. Issue 9 out now.

Branch
Critical Carbon Computing Collective

CCCC

The Critical Carbon Computing Collective's issue of Branch is now up!

We have a set of 4 keyword docs + an intro outlining our shared thinking on role of💻s in climate politics, widely defined.

Digital enviro governance is complicated! Let's talk about it!

https://branch.climateaction.tech

Branch Magazine Issue 9 Attunement: Designing in an Era of Constraints

Branch is an online magazine written by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet. Issue 9 out now.

Branch

Settler Computing:
Water Algorithms and the Doctrine of Equitable Apportionment on the Colorado River, 1950-1990

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725187

#algorithms #water #climatejustice #sts #history

“There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.” -Zora Neale Hurston

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