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# Pirate care syllabus - collaborative pad

https://hackmd.io/@marcell/piratecare

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## Syllabi examples:

[Freedom School Curriculum](http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/ED_FSC.html)
    
[Mental Health, Madness, and Psychiatry: A Study Guide and Annotated Bibliography by Belli Research Institute](https://belliresearchinstitute.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/psych_bibliography.pdf) 

[Syllabus: Women and gender non-conforming people writing about tech](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qx8JDqfuXoHwk41PZYWrZu3mmCsV05Fe09AtJ9ozw/edit)


[SPACE/RACE READING LIST](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p2GvScemyghCaQVkA3fDTsjqtprk7CPOryZv5-YUTkk/edit)

## Bibliography sources:

* https://gen.lib.rus.ec/
* https://aaaaarg.fail/
* https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/
* https://monoskop.org/
* http://sci-hub.se/
* https://www.worldcat.org/
* https://www.anarchistlibraries.net/
    * https://lib.anarhija.net/latest 
    * [Statement about anarchist libraries versus "The" Anarchist Library](https://325.nostate.net/2018/07/02/anarchistlibraries-net/)
        
    
## Statements we agree on

Language is a technology that needs to be decolonized.
Write for accessibility.

Reveling the process behind the building of the syllabus: who we are and how we have decided to approach this media object and also the questions that have no answer yet

Licensing issues

Issue with publishing a court case or other kinds of materilas that might bear consenquences for the collective...

translation issues


Most texts are from Western academe or activist spaces for certain topics - how to address this? Invitation for local groups to write local documents and reflect?

Some workshops might be framed in different ways to learn about different aspects...how to solve this? narrate all the options? 



## PROPOSED TOPICS:

### Housing struggles

Contributors: Ana, Iva

#### Sessions: Debt and housing struggles, Struggles for social housing, Housing and maintenance struggles, Rent Struggles, Squatting, Criminalisation of housing struggles, Bad housing makes us sick, Tech and housing struggles

### Emotional Support

Contributors: Power makes us sick

some short description

resources:
* [Icarus Project, "Friends Make The Best Medicine: A Guide to Creating Community Mental Health Support Networks"](http://nycicarus.org/images/fmtbm.pdf)
* [Mindful Occupation: Rising Up without Burning Out](https://mindfuloccupation.org/files/booklet/mindful_occupation_singles_latest.pdf)
* [Mental Health, Madness, and Psychiatry: A Study Guide and Annotated Bibliography by Belli Research Institute](https://belliresearchinstitute.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/psych_bibliography.pdf) 
* [Reclaim Your Mind: Manifesto (An Urgent Message for all those who have or are in danger of being labelled mentally ill)](https://lib.anarhija.net/library/anonymous-reclaim-your-mind-manifesto)
* [Unraveling the Biopsychiatric Knot](https://www.mapstotheotherside.net/unraveling-the-biopsychiatric-knot/)

### Criminialization of solidarity 

Contributors: Emina

some short description

### Decolonizing technology and science - Fostering diversity in the hacker/maker scene - different histories

Contributors: Zoe

#### Intro
As part of the maker culture, intersecting with hacker culture, we share the vision that technology can be redirected toward new purposes and grounded in sustaining new narratives, in which citizen perceive themselves as “makers” rather than “consumers” of technology and science. Actively countering the deterministic trends of current directions of both domains, makers’ approach enhances the relation with the world through concrete material engagement and challenging normative views of knowledge production and expertise.

Makers ideally embrace an egalitarian vision of making, but very often, in practice, we see the level of access and opportunities  lacking because making always takes place in spaces and times influenced by institutional, societal, and individual histories.

This contribution to the Pirate Care Syllabus is a tentative effort to start a process of sharing resources and practices to recognise how science and technology have played a leading role in the toolbox of the powerful by limiting the self-empowering of historically marginalized communities .

More and more, from an activist perspective, the use of word  “decolonising” came to be useful in understanding broader implications which have a long history even beyond physical borders. As Beatrice Martini highlights in the introduction of her reading list:
”One example of this kind of ‘borderless colonial’ phenomenon comes from digital technology. While many technical innovations are asserted as universally positive and beneficial to communities worldwide, beyond borders and across cultures, a closer analysis of who holds the power, who has agency, and whose interests are promoted, can often reveal a very different picture.”

Therefore deeper attention we need to pay to what constitutes community, how unequal distributions of agency impacts  the way learning and  making take shape across the enhanced borders of gender, race, and class.

In the same way as the science and tech community has been taking an internal, self-reflexive look on the role they played historically and presently in society  to prevent evident mistakes; I’d invite the maker/hacker community to embed this perspective in our practices because even science, which is first of all method, but soon became an industry and a dispositive, has proved to be harmful if not guided by ethical and equity principles.  

1. Reading Resources

#### Books

- Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures http://93.174.95.29/_ads/199259802A1BC7276BEA9EB8E3DC0127
- Zeros and ones : Digital Women and the New Technoculture - Sadie Plant
https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/ee635b88-6f68-4bc8-b256-a69ca7f3f2ac
- [The fabric of interface](https://memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/0ec6d5d1-9445-483b-bdc0-bf17ce2084ae)
- [Rebelling with care - Exploring open technologies for commoning healthcare](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335911369_Rebelling_with_Care_Exploring_open_technologies_for_commoning_healthcare)

#### Papers
- Maker Cultures and the Prospects for Technological Action https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11948-016-9796-8
- The gender-based digital divide in maker culture: features, challenges and possible solutions https://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-of-innovation-economics-2018-3-page-147.htm#
- Feminist and women's hackerspaces
https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Feminist_and_women%27s_hackerspaces
- Feminist Hackerspaces as Sites for Feminist Design https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2764771
- Legacies of craft and the centrality of failure in a mother-operated hackerspace  https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Legacies-of-craft-and-the-centrality-of-failure-in-Rosner-Fox/98428db4cb533666b615a5527ab356af32ec0679
- Breaking Gender Code: Hackathons, Gender, and the Social Dynamics of Competitive Creation
http://hackathon-workshop-2018.com/Sian%20JM%20Brooke.pdf
- [How Race & Gender Interact To Shape Inequality](https://decolonizeallthethings.com/2019/03/19/how-race-gender-interact-to-shape-inequality/) 
- [A Longitudinal Study of Equity-Oriented STEM-Rich Making Among Youth From Historically Marginalized Communities ](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/0002831218758668)

- [The gender-based digital divide in maker culture: features, challenges and possible solutions](https://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-of-innovation-economics-2018-3-page-147.htm) 
- [Dismantling Feminist Biology through the Design of eTextiles](https:// "title") 

- [Electronic Textiles as Disruptive Designs: Supporting and Challenging Maker Activities in Schools](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277928108_Electronic_Textiles_as_Disruptive_Designs_Supporting_and_Challenging_Maker_Activities_in_Schools) 
- [Rebelling with care](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335911369_Rebelling_with_Care_Exploring_open_technologies_for_commoning_healthcare)

#### Articles
- [We need a decolonized not a diverse education](http://harlot.media/articles/1058/we-need-a-decolonized-not-a-diverse-education)
-  Digital Colonialism, the internet as a tool of cultural hegemony
https://web.archive.org/web/20190316002911/http://www.knowledgecommons.in/brasil/en/whats-wrong-with-current-internet-governance/digital-colonialism-the-internet-as-a-tool-of-cultural-hegemony/
- Data Colonialism - Tech for social change
https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/data-colonialism-critiquing-consent-and-control-in-tech-for-social-change
- Black women physicists In the Wake
https://medium.com/@chanda/black-women-physicists-in-the-wake-ebf2cdeadb1a
- Ballarat Hackerspace giving women a safe space to follow their tech interests
https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/4726305/women-take-on-tech/

#### Links
* https://decolonizeallthethings.com/
* https://decolonizeallthescience.com/
* https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/technology-colonialism 
* Eve Tuck: [Decolonisation is not a metaphor](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277992187_Decolonization_Is_Not_a_Metaphor)
* Timeline of geek feminism
https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_geek_feminism
* Timeline of women in computing 
https://rarlindseysmash.com/WiCVis/index.html

2.  Sessions -
These sessions are tailored especially for fablab managers, trainers and people who want to increase the diversity and equity of their local environment.

> **DIVERSIFING Your Narratives** 
The workshop provides participants throughout the history and evolution of science and technology, with the aim of exploring constructs but also highlighting the contribution of colonized peoples, women, LGBTQ*, and differently able.

> **ETEXTILES as a tool to decolonize ELECTRONICS**
This workshop focuses on how eTextiles create opportunities to work across craft and technological domains reintroducing a historical link between computing, engineering, and traditionally women-led crafting

> **MAPPING the Unspoken**
This workshop aims to collectively visualize the unspoken happening in a makerspace/hackerspace; to analyze the invisibility of conditioning deriving from certain habits and practices; and, finally, to rethink what behaviour should be promoted in order to embody the values which diversity implies.


### Hormones and Body+Gender Sovereignty

Contributors: Mary






### Bioresistance

### Transhack feminism - multiplicity of methods

Contributors: Laura

some short description


### Commoning Care 

Contributors: Maddalena Fragnito

INTRODUCTION:

In the last decade the organization of social reproduction – the daily and generational reproductive labour occurring in households, schools, hospitals, communities, lands, etc. – has become a subject of enquiry and a central topic from the perspective of capital investments and the labour market: a battle-ground of privatization, regulation and power dynamics along the lines of gender, race and class. 

Within a western perspective, since welfare system crisis has caused many people to be ‘left behind’, one response has been a market-oriented “techno-solutionist” hope on digital technologies to help society address the reorganization of care needs (i.e. Apps on health prevention). These technologies, mostly developed for individual connected users, are conferring a special status to technicians involved in defining and solving societal problems. 

Though another response has seen people turn to more collective ways of organizing care themselves. Such is the case of the rise of the cooperatives’ platform movement, of transnational collectivities experimenting with “otherwise” instituting methods, or practices of radical redistribution of income, free time and knowledge. These commuities are positioning care as specific forms of situated embodied practices tinkered to technologies; are refusing explotation and the present of work; are expressing a different vision of transformation through commoning wealth and health; are practicing different conceptualizations of value and values; and, finally, are rethinking assemblages and kinships from a non-human centric perspective. 

The following sessions are based on a workshopping practice and are designed to push interdisciplinary frameworks towards transversal knowledges. Sessions make use of tools from radical play, creative and visual methods for social research and speculative interventions. The aim is to build a common ground with which visualize the present relation of power and asymmetries between complex assemblages of human, more-than-human, animal, technology, waste, resource, soil (and many other entities); and to invoke conflictual, pleasurable and ‘improper’ practices of caring a wounded planet.

SESSIONS:

> MAPPING THE INVISIBLE - [WORKSHOP](https://mega.nz/fm/AJkmUQhZ) 

The workshop aims to collectively visualize the invisible work within institutions, communities, families, spaces and groups; to analyze the material condition of invisibility of those activities; and, finally, to rethink what are the value and values that those activities bring to the whole context.

> UNPRODUCTIVE RESISTANCE - [WORKSHOP](https://mega.nz/#fm/4YEDACqI)

The workshop aims to collectively visualize the boundaries and the overlapping areas between the living for work or the working to live material and social conditions. Playing with parodia and simulation of our recurrent attitudes related with work is a way to subvert and transform our ‘natural’ and ideologically constructed relation with the act of working. 
Ps. The workshop can be done as it is, however it is warmly suggested to take a second collective moment in order to organize the workshop: RADICAL REDISTRIBUTION WORKSHOP (link). 

> RADICAL REDISTRIBUTION - WORKSHOP



> DE-WORKING IMAGINERIES - WORKSHOP

> CHILD(AND)CARE IN LATE CAPITALISM - READING GROUP

> HOW TO BUILD A PIRATE NURSERY IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD - WORKSHOP

> FROM SAFER SPACES TO SAVING THE SPACES - WORKSHOP

> TRANSGENERATIONAL ASSEMBLY - WALK




### Amateur librarianship

Contributors: Tomi, Marcell

Resources:

- [Amateur Librarian - A Course in Critical Pedagogy](http://tom.medak.click/en/amateur/)
- [motw_tag: library](https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/search/tags/library)

### Care & non-human agents

Contributors: ?


### Autonomous Healthcare

Contributors: ?

### Decommercialising public transport





## Potential Shared Topics:


### Radical Admin / Hacking Bureaucracy

How much / how /what and why to make some kinds of labour and skills 'visible' -or not.

Anarchist cookbook has some tips on this - Marcell to find ref.

### Histories of pirate care (crhonology as in Standing Rock Syllabus?)


### Politicizing piracy
Contributors: Rasmus, Tomi, Marcell






### Collections 


**BIORESISTANCE**

Crtical Art Ensemble: [Tactical Media at Dusk?](https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/09528820802440078)

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**CARE: HISTORY AND CONCEPTS**



Nancy Fraser (2016) "Contradictions of Capital and Care"


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**COMMONING CARE**

> Bibliography:

Bhattacharya, Tithi, and Lise Vogel. 2017. Social reproduction theory remapping class, recentering oppression. London: Pluto Press.

Morozov, Evgeny. 2013. To save everything, click here: the folly of technological solutionism. New York: Public Affairs.

Hester, Helen. (2018). Sapience + care: reason and responsibility in posthuman politics. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 24(2).

Linebaugh, P. (2009). The Magna Carta manifesto: Liberties and commons for all. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

Puig de La Bellacasa, María. 2017. Matters of care: speculative ethics in more than human worlds. Minneapolis (Minn.): University of Minnesota press.

Skeggs, Bev. “Values beyond value? Is anything beyond the logic of capital?” The British Journal of Sociology 65.1 (2014).

Aouragh, Miriyam, et al. Let’s First Get Things Done! On Division of Labour and Techno-political Practices of Delegation in Times of Crisis. The Fibreculture Journal 26: Entanglements-Activism and Technology (2015).

Gibson-Graham, J. K., Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy. 2013. Take Back the Economy: an Ethical Guide for Transforming our Communities. Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota Press.

Berardi, Franco. 2009. The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT press.

Mol, Annemarie. 2010. Care in practice on tinkering in clinics, homes and farms. Bielefeld: transcript-Verl.

Coleman, E. Gabriella. 2013. Coding freedom: the ethics and aesthetics of hacking. Coding Freedom. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. 2011. Commonwealth. Cambridge (Mass.): Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Flanagan, M. (2009). Critical play: Radical game design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pink, Sarah. 2013. Doing visual ethnography. Los Angeles: Sage.

Frisina, Annalisa. 2016. Metodi visuali di ricerca sociale. Bologna: Il mulino.

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. 2012. The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Haraway, Donna Jeanne. 2016. Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press.

Hayden, Dolores. 2000. The grand domestic revolution a history of feminist designs for American homes, neighborhoods, and cities. Cambridge: MIT Press.

> Zinography:

...

> Filmography:

...

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**CRIMINALISATION OF MIGRANT SOLIDARITY**

ARTICLE:

Health-worker migration and migrant health-care: seeking cosmopolitanism in the NHS

PRACTICES:

Docs Not Cops (UK)- #PatientsNotPassports Toolkit

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**HACKING BUREAUCRACY / RADICAL ADMIN**

ARTICLES:

Cori Hayden (2010) THE PROPER COPY, Journal of Cultural Economy, 3:1,
85-102

BOOKS:
The Traffic Power Structure
https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/54ceb03f-e862-4a5c-91a6-e80305c9fcaa

The Pirate Book 
Edited by Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska
Published by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2015. free download / ISBN 978-961-92192-6-3



REPORTS:
LYNCH, Bernadette. A collaborative investigation into engagement and participation in 12 museums and galleries in the UK, Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
https://www.phf.org.uk/reader/whose-cake-anyway/

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**HEALTHCARE MISCELLANEAOUS**

REPORT:

Where Does it Hurt? The New World of the Medical Humanities. Wellcome Trust (link not working – see pdf)



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**HORMONES AND BODY/GENDER SOVEREIGNTY**

ZINES/BROCHURES:

* PMS, "Building Towards an Autonomous Trans HealthCare" https://pms.hotglue.me/?resources 
* Gamez, Leandra, Maggic, Padilla, Pin, Rich, "ESTROZINE 1.1" https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/images/5/5e/ESTROZINE-1.0-impr.pdf 
* Rebelling with Care - Body Politics and Molecules
* https://interactadvocates.org/resources/intersex-brochures/

ARTICLES:

* Micha Cárdenas, "Trans of Color Poetics: Stitching Bodies, Concepts, and Algorithms"https://sfonline.barnard.edu/traversing-technologies/micha-cardenas-trans-of-color-poetics-stitching-bodies-concepts-and-algorithms/
* Beatriz Preciado: [Pharmaco-pornographic Politics: Towards a New Gender Ecology](https://monoskop.org/images/4/48/Preciado_Beatriz_2008_Pharmaco-pornographic_Politics_Towards_a_New_Gender_Ecology.pdf)
* Hermaphrodites with Attitude https://isna.org/library/hwa/
* Anne Fausto-Sterling, "The 5 Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough" http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/ncc375/5sexes.html

PROTOCOLS:
* Open Source Estrogen on Hackteria.org https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/Open_Source_Estrogen
* ESTROZINE (yeast biosensor chapter) https://files.cargocollective.com/185982/estrozine-yeast-chapter.pdf
* Urine Hormone Extraction Action http://files.cargocollective.com/185982/Urine-Hormone-Extraction-Action.pdf

BOOKS:
* Anne Fausto-Sterling, "Sexing the Body" https://libcom.org/files/Fausto-Sterling%20-%20Sexing%20the%20Body.pdf

* https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/publications/our-bodies-ourselves-2011/
* Bob Ostertag, Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity https://bobostertag.wordpress.com/books-and-articles/
* Nelly Oudshoorn, Beyond the Natural Body: an archeology of sex hormones https://www.jstor.org/stable/3630255

PRACTICES
* Open Source Estrogen http://maggic.ooo/Open-Source-Estrogen-2015 and Estrofem! Lab http://maggic.ooo/Estrofem-Lab-2016
* Rian Hammond, Open Source Gendercodes http://opensourcegendercodes.com/
* Paula Pin, BIOTRANSLAB https://jellypin.hotglue.me/?bioTransLab

**INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION / TOXIC DISCOURSE**

ARTICLES:
* Heather Davis, "Toxic Progeny: The Plastisphere and Other Queer Futures" http://heathermdavis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Philosophia_Davis.pdf
* Giovanna di Chiro, "Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco-Normativity" http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/4/3/6/7/p243671_index.html
* Max Liboiron, "Toxic Politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326132675_Toxic_politics_Acting_in_a_permanently_polluted_world
* M. Ah-King and E. Hayward, "Toxic Sexes: Perverting Pollution and Queering Hormone Disruption" https://www.academia.edu/6368781/Toxic_sexes_Perverting_pollution_and_queering_hormone_disruption
* Dayna Nadine Scott, “Gender-benders”: Sex and Law in the Constitution of Polluted Bodies"
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/%E2%80%9CGender-benders%E2%80%9D%3A-Sex-and-Law-in-the-Constitution-Scott/22c009d7e780b0f1b6910d9697059c5dc5d862bb 


* [Elizabeth A Povinelli, "Fires, Fogs, Wind"](https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca32.4.03/186)
* [Nicholas Shapiro, "Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime"](https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/download/ca30.3.02/218?inline=1)

* Alien Capitalism https://laboratoryplanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/LABORATORYPLANETn5.pdf

BOOKS

* Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and Environmentalism of the Poor https://southwarknotes.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/slow-violence-and-the-environmentalism-of-the-poor.pdf
* Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive https://bagelabyss.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/no_future__queer_theory_and_the_death_drive.pdf

* Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES
Nancy Langston (2016)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1nq0mv

PRACTICES
* Open Source Estrogen http://maggic.ooo/Open-Source-Estrogen-2015 and Estrofem! Lab http://maggic.ooo/Estrofem-Lab-2016
* Aliens in Green https://www.pact-zollverein.de/en/programme/xenopolitics-performative-workshop-hormonally-active-agents and http://aliensingreen.eu/ 






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**PIRACY HISTORY AND CONCEPT**

BOOKS: 

Policante, Amedeo. The Pirate Myth - Genealogies of an Imperial Concept. Routledge, 2015. 
https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/49ecca24-12bc-44f9-9c4c-ecafbd74b3e6

The Pirate Book
Edited by Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska
Published by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2015, free download








