After watching the two short films #tresdance and #Blaxites, I was confronted with the dangers that can come with our reliance on digital technologies. The more we rely on technology that is created and utilized by organizations that sell our data, the more detrimental it is to our society. What made me go “wow” after watching both films was how they both showed systemic marginalization. Both videos portray how the hegemonic system creates conditions where the Black women cannot succeed, and then offer them to be a trial in some new technology to gather more information on them. The new technology was marketed to them as helping their conditions when in reality it was just tightening the chains on their lives and freedom. Although I’m not sure if the point of the videos were to show systemic racism, I wonder if this was a deeper issue the authors were trying to weave in between the lines. The two movies changed my thinking on how much I should be relying on technologies such as “siri” who track your location and your voice. I have been attempting to lessen the amount of data that companies can gain off me such as turning my location off on many applications and not allowing them to track my data across apps. In a world where technology is evergrowing, is there a way we can lessen the impacts?