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at Deaf Panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Adler Bolton, and today I'm here with my co-hosts, Artie

Veer Kant. Hello. And Jules Gil Peterson.

Hello.

And the three of us are discussing recent attempts by state governments in the U.S. to

criminalize masking in public.

Now, in recent weeks, we have seen major developments in political attacks against

masking in public space.

There has been another loud wave of generalized anti-mask sentiment

resurgent among, frankly, both liberals and conservatives. Anti-mask sentiment writ large has been

promoted and allowed to flourish under the Biden pandemic response, what we named and have been

talking about for years now as the sociological production of the end of the pandemic. And this has collided

with pre-existing regimes of carcerality in the U.S., as well as attempts by representatives of the state

to quash, repress, and silence left protest movements, which frequently employed masking during

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