This #IntersexAwarenessDay we're celebrating Jemma Redmond, Tallaght bioscientist who pioneered research into bioprinting organs so intersex people like herself could have children. Awarded Silicon Valley prize shortly before her premature death in 2016. Jemma didn’t believe in binary approaches to gender: "Raising children in some stupid binary way is harmful... children should just be allowed to be themselves. They know who they are"
📷 MakingQueerHistory.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemma_Redmond
A lot of white people look at the mountain of work it takes to become a reliable accomplice and nope out. Which is a shame. Like fighting toxic masculinity is something we can all do to help anyone with gender, fighting racism helps everyone, even the people noping out.
Another thing white people do is they look for algorithmic rules and rule books to try to memorize and learn how to be antiracist. But I need to tell you, those rule books don't exist. They can't be written. White supremacy makes sure by changing the rules, by existing at almost all layers of social intercourse, by living also in myth and religion and oral history.
One thing I do think works is developing a practice. Making it a priority to Do the Work.
It's easy to hear a BIPOC or advocate/activist saying that being careful of language helps. But actually being careful? Looking up the etymology of words and phrases in your parlance before using them with strangers? Doing the work every time you aren't sure or can't remember? Being responsible and responsive when you misstep and someone calls you on it? That's gold. That's where the better future lives.
Do the right thing and Do the Work. Don't just consider it done by knowing about it. Do it.
@sungo It's a brilliant idea. The fact that they can get the equivalent performance of a copper antenna could give us more incentive to utilize carbon-based circuits at an even wider scale
This is so cool.
"the team has devised a chipless, paper-only version of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. ... [the] design requires no other material than paper. The company simply uses a laser to mark a circuit onto its surface, with the laser settings tuned so as not to cut or burn the paper but to change its chemical composition to make it conductive."
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/10/25/pulpatronics-paper-rfid-tags/
It's been a really fascinating experience, watching every tech CEO that I've worked with (or for) over the last few months be reduced to an incoherent shill, incapable of talking about their company or mission without constantly singing the importance of "adopting AI to stay competitive."
It's really replaced "virtual property/NFTs/Crypto/Blockchain" etc as something you sprinkle onto a shareholder meeting to convince 65 year old hedgefund managers that barely touch computers you're making the Next Big Thing and deserve their money. It's a whole new tech bubble just waiting to burst, again, lol.
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.