UArizona Women's+ Hackathon IWD 2021

Name: UArizona Women's+ Hackathon IWD 2021
Start: 2021-03-08T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2021-03-13T14:00:00-07:00

GDG Tucson

A non-competitive, free hackathon, designed by and for women and allies.

Mar 8, 2021, 11:00 PM – Mar 13, 2021, 9:00 PM

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Key Themes

InclusionWomen Techmakers

About this event

A non-competitive, free hackathon, designed by and for women and alliesIn 2015, UA Libraries helped to create the UA Women’s Hackathon (formerly known as the Women Techmakers Hackathon), a women-founded, non-competitive, free hackathon designed by and for women and allies.
Create tech-driven projects over the course of two daysOur mission is to bring together as many voices, experiences, and networks as possible so that participants of all skill levels can come together to create tech-driven projects over the course of two days. We start off with three Saturdays of workshops, then a kickoff event Monday, March 8 (International Women's Day!), two days of hacking and hanging out Tuesday and Wednesday March 9-10, and then a finale celebration and presentation of projects Saturday, March 13.
Open to campus and community members of all ages.

When

March 8 – 13, 2021
11:00 PM – 9:00 PM UTC

Agenda

Kickoff

We are excited to welcome you all in a special event kickoff and celebration of International Women's Day with an inspiring discussion about this year's theme, Mutual Aid. Keynote speaker Adela Licona presents Art as Coalitional Gesture & Information as Moving Matter. This conversation introduces TENDER R/AGE :: RABIA TIERNA, an online and traveling installation of art and information addressing the separation of families at the US/Mexico border and the caging of children. It began as a crowdsourcing call to friends informed by a feminist coalitional politics. Its coalitional impetus coalesces around its collective cry for no cages. Living on occupied territory and being born and raised in the borderlands, TENDER R/AGE :: RABIA TIERNA, acknowledges the long tradition in the US of separating families – chosen and biological. The project also recognizes how the US has led the way in producing, and continues to produce, the Migration Industrial Complex (MIC), its profit-driven economies, technologies, detentions, and surveillances. For years I have been working on the idea of the US as a regime of distortion where fear and insecurity are cultivated through state rhetorics, policy, and the media to criminalize, pathologize, and thereby distort whole populations. I envisioned this project as a call for seeing and looking anew and for informed collective action with outrage, compassion, and sustained connections. Adela C. Licona is the founder and lead consultant at The Art of Change Agency, a coaching and consulting agency supporting critical voices and creative visions for sustainable practice, structural change, and social transformation. She is an Associate Professor Emeritus, English, at the University of Arizona, where she served as founding member and Vice Chair of the Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory graduate minor and was affiliated faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute for LGBT Studies, Institute of the Environment, and Mexican American Studies. Adela is a writer and photographer who is Editor Emeritus of Feminist Formations and who serves on the advisory/editorial boards for Feminist Formations, the Primavera Foundation, Art+Feminism, and BorderLinks, a border immersion and popular educational project in Tucson, Arizona.

Organizer

Dan Stormont

GDG Tucson

GDG Organizer

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UArizona Women's+ Hackathon IWD 2021

Mar 8, 2021, 11:00 PM – Mar 13, 2021, 9:00 PM

Key Themes

About this event

A non-competitive, free hackathon, designed by and for women and allies

Create tech-driven projects over the course of two days

Open to campus and community members of all ages.

When

Agenda

Partner

University of Arizona Libraries

Organizer

Dan Stormont