L. June Bloch
Anthropologist · Ethnic Studies · Builder
Structural fairness baked in as a design parameter, not a post-hoc assessment. Seven open-source tools built from critical theory, zero dollars of tech funding.
I don't just write about how systems produce violence — I build the tools that redesign them. Same critical theory, same analytical practice: the publications are in the field's top journals, the software runs from the frameworks those publications develop.
Research
An elder said: "Did you ever consider that it isn't a bird?" It was a moth. That question reorganized fifteen years of fieldwork and five research programs.
Publications
Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology — recognition, animacy, settler colonialism, genocide, algorithmic justice, Indigenous knowledge, trans studies, and the politics of care.
Software
"Output format is the activation function for bias." Seven open-source tools built from critical theory, zero dollars of tech funding.
Teaching
Ethnic Studies was created by student strikes. The pedagogy should honor that — consensus-based, horizontal, survivable. No late penalties, reading equivalencies, emergency flex weeks.