Gender, technology & commons

Django Girls' aftermath

HackFest, 3 June 2017 @ hackerspace.grNatalia-Rozalia Avlona,

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Previous projects related to current research

1.Home_Network

2.Django Girls

Women’s CryptoDinner @ Hackerspace, Sep’ 2015

Re-politicising the use of technology

Industrial Post-Capitalist Colony initiated and self-organised by hackers

Calafou, Spain

Transhack Feminists@ Calafou

The GynePunks first formed at Calafou.Since 2013, members of a hackerspace there called Pechblenda

have held workshops aimed at decolonizing the female body, exploring plant-based vaginal medicines,

DIY lubricants, and improved sex toys.

“GynePunk is not a formed collective, it's a riot of bodies,"

Βio-hacking by GYNEPUNK

The TransH@ckFeminist (THF!) camp, organised in collaboration with Calafou & /etc (eclectic tech carnival), is a gathering of intersectional feminists, queer and trans people of all genders interested in better understanding, using and ultimately developing free and liberating technologies for social dissent, as a alternative to the corporatisation of technologies and the digital world. We understand technologies in their broadest sense including computer systems, (distributed) networks, “pirate”, community and/or independent radio/ tv, guerilla knitting and gardening, looming, hardware hacking as well as gender hacking

Points for consideration, inspired by THF, regarding future endeavours in Greece:

1. Queer, feminist and anti-racist pedagogies, using peer to peer learning approach

2. Autonomous infrastructures, which respect the distinctiveness the locality in Global South Versus Global North

3. Hacking with care: feminising the politics of hacking

EυχαριστώThank You !