Digital Identity and the Real Lives It Shapes
A blog that traces the gap—and the blur—between digital identity and lived identity.
This site is by activists for activists, sharing our knowledge, experiences, and diverse perspectives on navigating this new digital age. Through a series of case studies, we look at how digital identity, built from the traces we leave behind, has quietly become one of the main ways society sorts people, opens doors, closes them, and nudges our choices.
We treat digital identity more than just a technical convenience, but a powerful social and political force. By sharing how data categories shape institutional action and lived experience, we hope to reveal how digital identity becomes deeply intertwined with everyday life and how it quietly redistributes power, opportunity, and agency.