Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 23, 2016, 7 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Hacker culture celebrates technological empowerment: encouraging people to move beyond passive consumerism towards building and modifying technology to better meet their own needs. Hacking sex means expanding our definition of "sex;" recognizing that no two of us have the exact same biology, (a)sexuality, or desires; and building and modifying toys and equipment to enhance our own pleasure.
Join Kit "where did this b!tch get [their] doctorate" Stubbs for a look at technological empowerment for sexuality and pleasure. Recent developments in sex/tech will be covered, including crowdfunded sex toys, a patent troll, open-source sex toys, and 3D printing, with plenty of resources for folks new to sex/kink-positive DIY.
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Kit Stubbs
Kit Stubbs is a non-binary/queer/pansexual roboticist, maker, and entrepreneur who's more interested in people than in technology. Kit earned their PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 and later launched the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity (effing.org), a nonprofit whose mission is to reduce sexual shame by fostering sex-positive artists and educators. They blog about technological empowerment for sexuality and pleasure, including their experiences and creations, at toymakerproject.com. Kit also organizes teasecraft-boston, a meetup group for sex/kink-positive makers (teasecraft.com). They are excited to be back at HOPE after presenting "The Sex Geek as Culture Hacker" at HOPE X. You can also see Kit's work featured in Johannes Grenzfurthner's film Traceroute.
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