“It’s not our fault but it is our fight.”

-Monica Lewis Patrick

In this episode of Radicals for Good, we discuss utilizing technology in movement spaces and what digital justice could look like in Detroit with Tawana Petty, a mother, digital justice organizer, poet, and author.

Tawana Petty, also known by her poetry stage name Honeycomb, is a mother, social justice organizer, poet, author, facilitator and keynote lecturer. Her work focuses on racial justice, equity, privacy, and consent. She is the founding Executive Director of Petty Propolis, Inc., an artist incubator, which leverages poetry, policy literacy and advocacy, anti-racism facilitation, political education and community-centered initiatives in pursuit of data and digital justice and racial and environmental justice. In 2024, Petty was named on Business Insider’s AI Power List for Policy and Ethics.

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https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

https://unsplash.com/photos/text-zO7VVw7Hxik

https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroiters-get-oversight-of-surveillance-technology-but-is-it-enough/

https://www.bridgedetroit.com/michigan-central-is-collecting-a-lot-of-data-can-we-trust-it/

https://open.substack.com/pub/tawanapetty/p/defending-detroit?r=7g7rur&utm_medium=ios

https://tawanapetty.org/selected-media/f/defending-black-lives-means-banning-facial-recognition

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/11/tsa-airport-security-facial-recognition/

https://stoplapdspying.org/

https://voicesfromthegrassroots.org/lewis-patrick-monica/

https://www.detroitk12.org/about-dpscd/initiatives/one-to-one-student-technology-iniiative

https://www.wxyz.com/news/coronavirus/detroit-police-to-enforce-ticket-people-not-following-stay-at-home-order

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymichigan/PST045224

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/14dd97b35cbb4a4298786c75855f8080

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/08/28/detroit-police-department-celebrates-1k-project-green-light-partners/

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/09/detroit-bridges-internet-access-digital-divide/

https://connectyourcommunity.org/cleveland-and-detroit-lead-worst-connected-large-cities-of-2023/

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/10/07/grim-reality-more-than-half-of-detroit-children-are-now-living-in-poverty-census-bureau-data-shows/

https://poverty.umich.edu/projects/detroit-partnership-on-economic-mobility/

https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later

AI and Assembly: Coming Together and Apart in a Datafied World by Toussaint Nothias and Lucy Bernholz

Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Colin Schupfer

Please donate to Alia's founding nonprofit, FORCE Detroit!

Sources:

https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement 

https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/100-years-black-history-origins-anti-hunger-movement 

https://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/news/local/michigan/2025/07/24/violence-intervention-leaders-gather-in-lansing-to-advocate-for-funding/85327767007/

https://detroitmi.gov/news/mayor-sheffield-launches-mayors-office-neighborhood-and-community-safety-strengthen-violence

https://www.history.com/articles/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party

https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/black-history-month-celebrating-origins-free-breakfast-and-food-justice-movement

https://www.blkhlth.com/resources/racial-gaps-in-colorectal-cancer-tnt2y-9pegt

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/black-panther-party-challenging-police-and-promoting-social-change  

The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs

Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice

Please donate to Namira's neighborhood nonprofit, Dream of Detroit! https://dreamofdetroit.org/donate/

Sources:

https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement 

https://medium.com/@niawrites/16-questions-i-wish-i-had-asked-my-immigrant-father-214570fe1e44 (please email hey@radicalsforgood.com for a friend link)  

https://planetdetroit.org/2021/10/its-all-waawiyaatanong/ 

https://pixabay.com/photos/skyline-river-water-detroit-8061846/ 

https://medium.com/dsa-detroit-newspaper/waawiyatanong-resists-43f4d7806c1c

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8814474/

https://planetdetroit.org/2021/01/detroits-battle-with-climate-change-flooding-asthma-and-infrastructure/

https://www.mindful.org/a-6-minute-loving-kindness-meditation-to-expand-your-awareness/

https://www.nqa.org/what-is-qigong

https://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/ 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/scientists-use-new-technology-to-track-individual-monarch-butterfly-migrations 

Video by SimplyArt4794: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-video-of-butterflies-7787029/

https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zx8sf82#zcyq2v4

Becoming Good Ancestors by David Ehrenfeld

We Do This Until We Free Us by Mariame Kaba

Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

On our very first episode of Radicals for Good, we give a radical introduction to our podcast and host. We discuss the history and current moment of Detroit and why we believe hosting this podcast in the most radical city in the United States is timely and necessary. And why we believe it’s important to share this podcast in this moment ‘on the clock of the world’.

Sources:

https://unsplash.com/photos/a-statue-of-a-fist-is-suspended-by-a-crane-xs1W9DoYEVs

https://geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/waawiyatanong-land-acknowledgement

https://againstthecurrent.org/atc168/p4071/

https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/parks-rosa

https://the-spark.net/o_ford1941.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/race-riot-1943

https://urbanhistory.willmackintosh.org/project/madelines-project/

https://time.com/4879062/detroit-1967-real-history/

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/1963-march-washington

https://conversationsthatyouwillneverfinish.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/what-time-is-it-on-the-clock-of-the-world-by-grace-lee-boggs/

Freedom is a constant Struggle by Angela Davis

https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/blog/remembering-mlks-influence-detroit

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/362782#slide=gs-200036

https://unsplash.com/photos/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-mathew-ahmann-in-a-crowd-of-demonstrators-at-the-march-on-washington-bTF3gkd2L28