Dear Colleagues, I'm happy to share that my book is available for pre-order with an official publication date of February 6, 2024. About: In *Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating <https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33064>*, Apryl Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms' algorithms, their lack of transparency, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies' community guidelines, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today's online dating culture. She discusses this reality in the context of facial recognition and sorting software as well as user experiences, drawing parallels to the long history of eugenics and banned interracial partnerships. Ultimately, Williams calls for, both a reconceptualization of the technology and policies that govern dating agencies, and also a re-examination of sociocultural beliefs about attraction, beauty, and desirability. “We struggle to understand how we are shaping, and are shaped by, a technological apparatus like an online dating system that is designed for profit at all costs, even if it relies upon harmful tropes and ideologies to succeed. Apryl Williams has gifted us research that moves between these frames—the personal and the structural—so we can better understand the implications of a narrowing set of possibilities through digital and statistical matchmaking.” -- FOREWORD BY SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE If you order from the publisher, Stanford University Press <https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33064>, you'll receive 20% off with the code: TYPE20. Please feel free to share the code! Cheers, Apryl Apryl A. Williams, PhD Assistant Professor | University of Michigan Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI | Mozilla Foundation Faculty Associate | Berkman Center for Internet & Society | Harvard University