#PocketsInWomensClothing

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How does your mobile phone make you feel? How has that changed over time?

Weary. I don't carry my phone in pockets of clothes I wear. This is largely informed from correlations made by those not predisposed to breast cancer actually contracting breast cancer on the breast on the side of the bra they stored their phone on. #PocketsInWomensClothing

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“We noticed protest posters: 'You will drink lithium, you will eat copper.'”

– Ligaya, Atacama Desert, Chile

“When it fell on my face, playing Wordle, drunk”

Anonymous

“Accidentally continuing to share my location with someone... Creepy.”

– Anonymous, San Francisco, CA

Transform the tech industry from inside.

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Collective Action School has a grassroots theory of change. We believe the people who make the tech industry run—its workers—have the power to not only transform it, but to build and imagine new technologies. They welcome all tech workers—whether you’re a project manager, warehouse worker, software engineer, or ride share driver.