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How Dating Apps Are Failing Black Women | IRL: Online Life is Real Life

How Dating Apps Are Failing Black Women | IRL: Online Life is Real Life

Update: 2025-06-20
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Dating apps aren’t broken; they’re working exactly as designed. And for Black women, that’s a problem.

In this season premiere of IRL: Online Life is Real Life, host Bridget dives into how dating apps reinforce harmful beauty standards rooted in whiteness, automating what researcher Dr. Apryl Williams calls “sexual racism” into the user experience.

This is the first episode in a four-part series from Mozilla and PRX exploring how tech shapes our most personal decisions. Subscribe now to catch every episode: irlpodcast.org

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How Dating Apps Are Failing Black Women | IRL: Online Life is Real Life

How Dating Apps Are Failing Black Women | IRL: Online Life is Real Life

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