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Christina Aushana

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Christina Aushana is a 2019 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow and doctoral candidate at UC San Diego, where she is completing her dissertation, “Staging Vision, Screening Others: The Performance and Visual Culture of Contemporary Policing.” Her writing on everyday policing practices and their relationship to cinema has been published in Surveillance & Society, and her article on performance and police academy training is forthcoming in a special issue of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.

Protest Photography Can Be a Powerful Tool For and Against Black Lives Matter

Protest Photography Can Be a Powerful Tool For and Against Black Lives Matter

If photojournalism wants to draw attention to social injustice, it must also look at the unintended harm photography can cause