Dear Vern, 2020–2023, archiving, design, and writing, feminist digital art project and web archive. Screenshots of the website (above and below).

Dear Vern is an intercepted archive of still-active public polls drawn from the office of U.S. Congressman Vern Buchanan, a Republican from Florida’s 16th district. Buchanan sends out (almost) weekly InstaPolls and supplementary FlashPolls to his email list subscribers. These have been systematically collected and collated by Janelle Rebel beginning in March of 2018 until she moved out of the district in June 2023. Over 276 polls have been added to this archive as well as 10 undated letters to Vern from JR. Users are invited to answer the polls and view the running tallies.

Reviewed by Lori Waxman at 60 wrd/min art critic and The Quarantine Times.

Featured project in Digital America 17 and the subject of "Carnal Politics: A Response to Dear Vern" by Tra My Anderson.

Presented at the Power Positions: A Dismantling of Phallacies symposium.