Great write-up by Kitty Stryker.
As much as I consider myself a geek, I am pretty isolated generally from
the geeky ‘verse. A lot of my friends are certainly dorky/nerdy/geeky,
in a multitude of ways, but we’re usually meeting at altsex or Burner
spaces, not hacker ones! I guess I’m a little intimidated by the
techspeak, which I’m not a native speaker of.Well, this last weekend was spent surrounded by smart sexy geeks at Arse Elektronika, a sex, tech, class and culture conference thrown by monochrom
that goes on every year in San Francisco. I had two talks to give, one
called “TLC: Sex Work, Disability, and Stigma”, and one with Maggie Mayhem
called “Pervertables: A Hands-on Workshop in Being a DIY Deviant”. I
didn’t get to see all the rest of the talks as my spoons were kind of
few and far between this weekend, but I wanted to at least give a bit of
a writeup of what I did!