<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/institutes-and-centers/center-applied-technology/catlab/blog/our-journeys-toward-justice-part-1-getting-our-bearings.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>06/16/2020</pubDate><title>Our Journeys Toward Justice, Part 1: Getting Our Bearings</title><excerpt>Even as we code and write and do art, we have to acknowledge that we don’t do these things in isolation: the CATLab is a program embedded in a certain time and place. More than that, we are all humans whose embodiedness and particularity matter—no one gets to be a human being in the abstract. In the last few weeks, we’ve been sobered by the fact that this is a dark and difficult time. We’ve interrupted our normal projects and processes to take the time to reflect on how to move forward. As our director Zak said:</excerpt><author>Laura Phillips</author><image>
            
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