Hardware Crash Course

The Hardware Crash Course is a womxn-only famous workshop run since the early days of the GenderChangers.

As the initiators describe it:
"Why a Hardware Course? Of course, women work a lot with computers! They write and print all those business letters; keep up the spreadsheets and databases necessary in organisations; surf the net; design websites and so on and so forth. But just like with cars, for example, women generally know less about what is under "the hood" of this piece of equipment. We want women to be able to speak the speak when buying parts in a shop. We want women to be able to upgrade their own pc’s instead of relying on their brothers, boyfriends or a technician. And finally, we want people to migrate their pc’s from Window$ to Linux and other Free and Open Source software. However, one needs a little more of a basic understanding to be able to do this.

The hardware course sets the foundation for further exploration. Hardware is a mystery, may seem difficult, but in fact is a lot of fun! Playing is a way to get to know how stuff works. It is hands-on practice in an environment free of worry about breaking expensive stuff that encourages learning. Knowing how it works, being able to interact with it gives one a sense of control and independence. Secretaries of today should have a toolkit to be able to Do It Themselves; a new millennium witchbag."

Text Source ---> https://www.genderchangers.org/images/hardware_reader.pdf
Gallery of photos --->Workshops#Hardware_Crash_Course

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Computer hardware crash course by Donna! ~ Description from /ETC 2019:

We will take apart an old computer and put it back together again, finding the parts that make up a computer: hardware, electrical wiring, storage, processing, the BIOS and so on. Some nutty personified terms will finally be experienced in the wild, in real life: motherboard, master and slave, genderchanger!

The presentation is open to everyone but with priority to trans, non-binary, women and intersex. If the workshop is full men will be asked to leave.

Source ---> https://eclectictechcarnival.org/ETC2019/program/index.html#hardware-course

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