  Mariah is an augmented reality (AR) mobile application that exposes power
structures (e.g., capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy) through storytelling
and celebrates acts of resistance against them. People can use Mariah to
"legally trespass" the metaverse as a form of protest. Mariah provides
historical context to the user's physical surroundings by superimposing images
and playing stories about people who have experienced, and resisted, injustice.
We share two implementations of Mariah that raise questions about free speech
and property rights in the metaverse: (1) a protest against museums accepting
"dirty money" from the opioid epidemic; and (2) a commemoration of sites where
people have resisted power structures. Mariah is a case study for how
experimenting with a technology in non-sanctioned ways (i.e., "hacking") can
expose ways that it might interact with, and potentially amplify, existing
power structures.
