How Dating Apps Are Failing Black Women | IRL: Online Life is Real Life
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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Show Notes
Dating apps aren’t broken; they’re working exactly as designed. And for Black women, that’s a problem.
In this season premiere of IRL: Online Life is Real Life, host Bridget dives into how dating apps reinforce harmful beauty standards rooted in whiteness, automating what researcher Dr. Apryl Williams calls “sexual racism” into the user experience.
This is the first episode in a four-part series from Mozilla and PRX exploring how tech shapes our most personal decisions. Subscribe now to catch every episode: irlpodcast.org
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