Ruha Benjamin

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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want Ruha Benjamin
From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time

“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
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Ideas⁴

Ruha Benjamin holding her book, Viral Justice

What is viral justice? An interview with Ruha Benjamin In spring 2020, Ruha Benjamin received a DM on Twitter from her literary agent Sarah Levitt: “I’m hungry to read anything you have.” Inspired, Benjamin began writing and spent the first few months of the pandemic conceiving what would become her new ... Read More

Book Club Pick: Viral Justice Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of... Read More

Listen in: Viral Justice Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of... Read More

Portrait of Ruha Benjamin with graphic reading "Office Hours" below

Office hours with Ruha Benjamin For this month’s Office Hours, I’m delighted to share wisdom and inspiration from Ruha Benjamin, author of the forthcoming Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. Read More