About Us

The Dissident is an unapologetically anti-fascist publication dedicated to exposing authoritarian movements and amplifying the communities most targeted by them. We investigate the fault-lines where power, technology, and civil rights collide. Who gets harmed or protected is a political choice and we cannot let the monsters make those choices for us. When the contemporary cultural currency is cruelty, we aim to fight back with empathy and understanding.

Who we are:

The project is led by Alejandra Caraballo, a civil-rights attorney, clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, and nationally recognized LGBTQ+ rights advocate. Her legal career has spanned asylum work with the New York Legal Assistance Group, national impact litigation at the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, and teaching the next generation of tech-policy lawyers.

What we cover

• Politics & power. We track legislation, court fights, and and federal policy changes.
• Technology & surveillance. From algorithmic bias to platform disinformation and the weaponization of data against marginalized people, we scrutinize the digital tools that shape modern authoritarianism.
• LGBTQ+ liberation. Queer and trans voices are centered in every story we tell, because our rights are a bellwether for democracy itself.

How we work

We pair deep legal expertise with open-source research, FOIA requests, and collaborative reporting. Our pieces are rigorously fact-checked, grounded in lived experience, and designed to inform everyone living through this authoritarian movement on how to push back.