However, it was immediately clear to everyone in the Zoom call that they were not there for the lecture and that they were actively sabotaging the event. Another troll sarcastically asked what “Allahu Ackbar” had meant.Īlarcon and the event organizers were confused at their abrupt appearance. One Zoom bomber expressed that he liked “big juicy ****” in his mouth. They started calling out offensive obscenities, seemingly aimed at no one in particular. They interrupted the event by loudly announcing their arrival and interrupting Norma Alarco, a visiting professor from Brandeis University, during her lecture. One or two of them even appeared to be children. The Zoom bombers appeared to be at least five adolescents due to their camera being turned on upon arrival. The Zoom bombers appeared with no warning 40 minutes into the call. “What really concerned me was the racial and gender violence of the bombing because it really infringed in a space where women of color were the center of the conversation.”Īt the height of the event, there were around 93 attendants in the Zoom call. “I think that the language that was used felt very violating and violent,” she said.

Zoom bombing is a phenomenon that started as schools shifted online during COVID-19 and is generally referred to as people using technology to troll and disrupt classrooms.ĭionne Espinoza, one of the event organizers and a professor from Cal State LA’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program said the experience had shaken her.

This happened during what was supposed to be a gathering aimed at discussing de-colonialism and a celebration of the tail end of Women’s History Month.

A feminist Zoom lecture was “Zoom bombed” by multiple people who began saying racist slurs, screen sharing explicit video content, yelling and causing general chaos.

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