For/para/pour 3rd THF CFP/llamada/appel à participation:
- THF! 2016 Third TransHackFeminist CFP- en
- THF! 2016 Tercer Encuentro TransHackFeminista – es
- THF! 2016 Troisième rencontre TransHackFeminist – fr
1. CALL FOR PROJECTS (ERROR 404: DISSIDENT TECHNOLOGIES NOT FOUND)
We are joyfull to summon feminist, queer and trans* bodies and hack th patriarchalcapitalist system to participate in th second meeting of the THF, which will take place the 25th to 31st of July 2015 at the ADA community centre in the city of Puebla, Mexico.
We believe that our dissident bodies and identities can as well as their spaces, generate technologies and tools for liberation. The tradition ofsoftware us, today, to aplify hardware and software to hack bodies, gender, academia, gynecology, maternity and child-rearing as well as operating systems, distributed networks, autonomous servers, “pirating”, open media, electronic devices, as explored in the first gathering of the THF, in august of last year in the eco-industrial and post-capitalist community of Calefou, 60 km from Barcelona.
THFMx is an open call for projects that between all the participants in an atmosphere of respect and cooperation.
We invite you to subscribe to the list thfeminist@lists.riseup.net to get the latest or be involved in the organisation and generation of workshops, talks, dnamics, performaces, projections and concerts.
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PROGRAM (SOURCE CODE FOR CREATING A LOCAL FORK)
The THFMx activites this year (as much as it makes sense in our context and interests) the areas proposed in the first THF (incarnated theory, performative tactics and liberation technology) and the conclusions after:
1.- In the fields of technology in general, and hacking in particular, trans* and cis women and queer folk are represented in reduced numbers. Heteropatriarchy and power dnamics continue to be reproduced. How do we subvert these dynamics, and meet likeminded others who may be interested in creating and “un-elite-ing” knowledge, to generate liberating and emancipating technology?
2.- To think and re-think the concepts of trans-feminism and hacking. ot to close their meanings, on the contrary, to open them up and enrich them. To comprehend how they can be inhabited and understood in different ways according to our life-histor, historical, economic and social context, geograph and language.
3.- To debate the critical approximations between technology, hacking cultures and feminism o make our practice more relvant and visible to each other and to those who are interested in/by them.
4.- To demand the politization of cyber, technological and feminist spaces towards a holistic and transdisciplinary perspective. Towards a collective development against all forms of existing oppresion. Art, science, technology and the trades are divided only in those spaces where fragmented and capitalist thoughts seeps in.
5.- The TXFMx will take place in Mexico to provoke spaces dialogue, reflect and creat on a greater level: a dialogue which will add Latinamerican and comunitarian feminisms, where colonialism will have no space in any form. We are making visible the differences and asymmetries that exist in access to technology, also creating a space that unites us.
6.- Conscious of the enormous increase in violence in it’s most patriarchal expression <– feminicidal violence –> we think it essential to generate spaces of feminist self-defense in all areas. Emancipation and self-determination as sources of life.
7.- To generate a space to make evident, to expose and subvert the enormous inequality, exploitation, sacking and extermination that the heteropatriarchal capitalist system provokes, putting an emphasis in the onslaught and charge against the feminine and the reproduction of life in all of it’s expressions.
8.-To generate a space to open up concepts possibilities where the words trans, hacker and feminism are a pre-text to re-think ourselves, to construct ourselves from the edge of possibility.
9.- A space where neither time nor history are linear. A space in which we knit and enter our own past and future.
10.- A space where we construct collective processes for knowledge, memory and creativity.
11.- Spaces to dialogue, boycott and conspire against the patriarchy.
12.- We consider it important to make explicit that the THFMx parts from the practice of the agreements generated in the first THF http://transhackfeminist.noblogs.org/thf-importante/
Finally, this is not a closed call, on the contrary, THFMX is built by all — with an atmosphere f respect and cooperation.
We invite you to propose workshops, talks, dynamics, performance, projections, concerts o whatever activity you think could add to the debate. We will resume the areas proposed in Calafou THF (incarnated theory, performative tactics and liberating technology.) and we will add others that are proposed.
- For now, a proposal for organizers: Talk about experiences of praxis of trans-hack-feminist transformation in organisations of the anti-capitalist social movement.
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Note:
In the Calafou THF we debated about TRANS and HACK
The word “trans” needs to be understood in plurality of perspectives. Trans as a noun, as a ver and as a prefix. To be in transition, in transformation, to be transgenderized, to be transversal, transdisciplinary, etc. Trans as a verb meaning to interrogate, to cross, to fuse. From a starting point, THF! takes into account the expansion, interconnection, cross of physical and metaphorical boundaries. It also points towards the fact that the concept is constantly evolving, admitting that when the notions become fixed or closed they begin to die.
The term “hack” refers to the more tradition act of doing, of dismantling things, of understanding them in a deeper way. But it is also seen as an action and a performance to hack patriarchy, capitalism and other opressive systems, and to make th explicit. THF! means to also be conscious and admit privileges we have. It’s about understanding the relationship between privilege and oppression, subverting the existing order. A THF! practice implicitly anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, andti-transphobic, and to use hacking of resistance, sabotage and transformation. Finally, the word “hack” introduces the dimensions of contagion and contamination, understood from a positive prism. These “virii” hackfeminsm and transfeminism introduce new modalities of seeing the world which help to break down binaries (man vs woman, theory vs practice, who produces and who consumes, tech activists vs activists, etc). The concept of virality is also linked to authorship and the public domain, in the sense that there to be redistributed, remixed, reconsidered and logically, also hacked.
If you want to know about the activities of THF2014, you can see: http://transhackfeminist.noblogs.org/
ADA community centre
The ADA community centre ((http://umap.openstreetmap.co/en/map/untitled-map_206)) is in the city of Puebla, in one of it’s oldest neighbourhoods, San Antonio
(http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrio_de_San_Antonio_%28Puebla%29). It is an adapted building with a forum for 200 people, we also have a cellar in which there are 5 cubicles, a community kitchen, a hostel for 16 people 8 apartments and a cafe area with space for 80 people, and lots of space to be comfortable and spend the night.
The community centre functions as a self-managed space, open to the participation of any peson or collective without a profit motive, run on the principles of solidarity, reciprocity, mutual support, and self-management. In this space we’ve organized concerts, gatherings, workshops and even referee meetings.
What do we have?
Spaces:
Forum with 200 person capacity
Dressing Room
Cafe
Auditorium (150 capacity)
3 cubicles
Screen printing workshop
Community kitchen
Urban agriculture garden
Tool-shed
Space to sleep
Equipment:
Sound equipment
3 microphones
projector
stage lights
7 tables
30 chairs
Fittings:
Dressing room with theatre mirrors
Utilities
Internet
Sports mats
Wish list:
Projector
Microphones
Sports Mats
Domi’s and training equipment
Carpet
Food stuffs
Onion Pi pack
Toilet paper
Cleaning liquids
Chairs
Extension leads
Brooms, buckets, cloths
Cushions
Mutual support, solidarity, autonomy, self-management, self-determination!
Fist in the air, smiles on our faces and fury in our hearts!
Together we are more powerful!
Self-defense against systemic violence!
We don’t forgive or forget, many of us are no here!
THF! Anarcha Server & Gynepunk technologies anti-patriarcal autonomous server & Do it with others (DIWO) gynecological biolab
TransHACKfeminist! camp (THF!) 4-11 August Calafou, in collaboration with / etc (eclectic tech carnival), is pleased to open this call for proposals to all transfeminist collectives, queer, trans, women, hackers, genderhackers and unicorns among others. We aim for a transHACKfeminist insurrection!
Our proposal is two-fold: 1.- ANARCHA SERVER: Antipatriarchal Autonomous Server Together we will build an anti-patriarchal autonomous server, a tool that we hope to build collectively. How? During the week we will: - Organize assemblies; - Debate and work in groups to answer our needs when working in a network (web hosting, domains, censorship, autonomy, technological self-management, mail servers); - Generate a continuity strategy (including: collective management, network servers, set up other servers in different sites); - Workshops on how to use computer terminals (beginners to advanced); - Workshop on how to install and configure a server; - Use the server; - Install and configure websites; - Focus on security, privacy and autonomy; - Communication tools and server organization. Based on participants’ needs spontaneous workshops will be organized. 2.- GYNEPUNK BIOlab Together we will explore a Do-it-with-others (DIWO) Biolab Why Anarcha? Looking backward and forward in the history of gynecology How? During the week we will: - Presente on the Anarcha Gland and Biolab Gynepunk project; - Discuss the possibilities to self-managed hormones synthesis; - Organise workshops Howto create a Biolab (Basic materials): DIY microscope, the Del Em and other gynecologist technologies, among others. If you want to PROPOSE a workshop, talk or any other kind of activities to reflect the essence of the two aforementioned issues, please do so by the DEADLINE: July 28th The Camp will end with a Cabaret dedicated to Trans-futuristic Cyborgs
Excited? Do you want to join? If so complete the following forms and voilà!!
- Registration (important for sleeping and food arrangements)
- NODE proposals (content that you want to share)
Please complete the registration form above! We need confirmation to: - Provide comfortable hosting (sleeping space). - Food for everyone and every necessity