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Carebot
Any user can fill out carebot above, Lam Thuy Vo’s work that holds space for your anxiety, for your sadness, and for your excitement, even if it’s just for a tiny bit of time. Carebot was built to receive that text you want to send someone but are too afraid to send.
Artist Statement
Unrequited love is as old as humanity. It’s an imbalance of sorts that afflicts all kinds of loves — romantic, platonic, familial. And technology has made it all too easy for people to disappear and to simultaneously leave plenty of digital traces behind for anyone to see that they are fully alive.
The humans who were shut out writhe from the void. They want to speak to the person who closed the door and switched off the lights on them. But instead, they are left to clumsily fumble in the dark for answers, and to feel embarrassed by their audicity to have had faith in something.
Are you in a pickle just like the one I described? Write down what you want to send to this person and send it to me instead. I can read it, maybe even share it here on this site. And once that text is out there maybe…just maybe…it won’t make you want to shatter into a million pieces anymore.
Lam Thuy Vo is a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News where she digs into data to examine how systems and policies affect individuals. She’s explored how excessive ‘quality-of-life’ complaints led to the over-policing of minorities, how badly constructed algorithms helped spread hate-speech and warp our understanding of politics, and how changes in immigration enforcement drove immigrants into the arms of fraudulent lawyers. She’s spent the past few years building an expertise in an increasingly relevant practice: investigating the social web.
Outside of her job, she has also worked as an educator for a decade, developing newsroom-wide training programs for institutions like Al Jazeera America and The Wall Street Journal, workshops for journalists around the world and semester-long courses for the Craig Newmark CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
She’s committed to helping her industry become more diverse. She co-administers a slack community for journalists of color and co-created a resource guide for journalists of color looking for career growth, salary data, demographics breakdowns of newsrooms and training opportunities.
Visit her website here.
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