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Olivia Snow
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Visiting Assistant Researcher, UCLA Newsroom
Los Angeles, New York
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Biography
Dr. Olivia Snow (she/her) is a writer, dominatrix, and research fellow at UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2), where she studies sex work/ers, labor rights, tech, and policy. Her work arises from her doctoral research on the dehumanization of the laboring body under industrial capitalism, her organizing for policies to support community safety and harm reduction, and her lived experience of financial deplatforming and algorithmic surveillance as a sex worker. A professional dominatrix trained in the humanities, she also analyzes the symbiotic relationship between popular imaginings of sex work/ers and the legislation that criminalizes our labor. Always with the goal of decriminalization and liberation, Snow’s research currently centers around the surveillance of in-person sex workers by Big Tech and the violence of financial and social deplatforming. She holds a PhD in American literature, and prior to joining C2i2, she was a research fellow at New York University’s AI Now Institute.
Business, Sex Labor, Sex Work , Surveillance, Technology Policy, Culture , Artificial Intelligence
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Content
By Olivia Snow| Jezebel Verified Near the end of the 2023 Netflix documentary Money Shot, Mike Stabile of the Free Speech Coalition explains, “What people don’t realize is porn is traditionally the canary in the coal mine of free speech.”Calling sex workers “the canary in the coal mine” is almost a cliché at this point. I myself have used the metaphor in my own writing to discuss algorithmic surveillance of sex workers.But here is where the metaphor falls apart: The canary is only effective if the miner listens to it
By Olivia Snow| Yahoo Life Verified Near the end of the 2023 Netflix documentary Money Shot, Mike Stabile of the Free Speech Coalition explains, “What people don’t realize is porn is traditionally the canary in the coal mine of free speech.”Calling sex workers “the canary in the coal mine” is almost a cliché at this point. I myself have used the metaphor in my own writing to discuss algorithmic surveillance of sex workers. But here is where the metaphor falls apart: The canary is only effective if the miner listens to it
By Rebecca Onion Verified, Olivia Snow| Slate Verified In Sex Reviews, writers offer a sober critical assessment of the sex scenes in new films. This installment contains spoilers for the movie Sanctuary. Sanctuary stars Christopher Abbott as Hal, an heir to a hotel fortune who is finally inheriting control of his father’s company and is deeply insecure about it, and Margaret Qualley as Rebecca, a dominatrix who isn’t about to let him end their working relationship, though he would like to
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UCLA Newsroom
Los Angeles, California, United States
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