Edition OO1 - Her Cells, Our Data

What was done to Henrietta Lacks — the extraction without consent, the conversion of a person into a product, the accumulation of enormous wealth and power by institutions that acknowledged no obligation to the individual whose body made it possible — is not a historical anomaly. It is a template that is still running, at a scale and speed, but now to something even more intimate than cells.

Our data is being harvested. Our thoughts. Our languages. Our accumulated knowledge.