Purveyors of violence
Do not goad us into peace
They distribute ammunition
In biometric vending machines
They coerce cult retribution
Erode all sensibilities
Oblivious to the Frankensteins
Alchemized inside their factories
Tawana Petty aka Honeycomb is a mother, social justice organizer, poet, author, and facilitator. Her work focuses on racial justice, equity, privacy, and consent. She is a 2023-2025 Just Tech Fellow with the Social Science Research Council, a 2024 National LIO Yearlong Fellow with the Rockwood Leadership Institute and she serves on the CS (computer science) for Detroit Steering Committee. Petty also serves on the board of Signal-Return.
She is the founding Executive Director of Petty Propolis, Inc., a Black women-led artist incubator primarily focused on cultivating visionary resistance through policy literacy and advocacy, data and digital privacy education, and racial justice and equity initiatives.
Learn more about Tawana and her work @ tawanapetty.org/
