#simone browne

When a surveillance practice gets enacted on racial bodies, that is another part of racialization, so racialization is an effect and a practice that is repeated in many ways.

Of course, many black women who labored in white households forged loving and nurturing relationships with their own families, despite the harsh working conditions of white supremacy.

Surveillance is nothing new to Black folks. It is the fact of antiblackness.

How does a Black feminist grapple with the future that hasn't happened but must, while witnessing the mounting disposability of Black lives that don't seem to matter ?

So dark sousveillance describes the ways that tools of social control and plantation surveillance and beyond were appropriated, repurposed, co-opted and uh...also challenged to facilitate escape.

With dark sousveillance, I wanted to critique sousveillance but still have a critical generosity because it's a generative term. Looking at the ways people challenge repressive practices through their own counter-veillance and surveillance is important to me because it speaks to a particular intimacy and knowledge about living within the context of plantations societies, repressive societies, anti-Black spaces, and that there is some liberatory knowledge in knowing how to subvert that, resist or mainly survive within it and live still.

Talking back then, is one way of challenging surveillance and its imposition of norms.