Week 1 ✹ Hello Cybernetics

Welcome to Cybernetics of Sex

✧ Honor the land where you are ✧

Honor the land where you are – Our home for these in-person sessions is physically located on a server owned or contracted by Zoom while our bodies are elsewhere. Both the servers and where we sit take up space on land where other people once lived. Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land is a resource to find out who the original stewards of the land are where you are.

Complications of Zoom

Zoom responds to privacy backlash by giving all its users end-to-end encryption

Countries where Zoom routes our traffic from class

Olivia Ross, https://www.instagram.com/cyberdoula/

🍒 For a more equitable viewing experience: Change your Zoom view to “Gallery.” Look to the top right.

Agenda

Introductions & Pronouns
Intentions
Code of Conduct
Melanie’s introduction to themself and cybernetics
Orientation activity (anonymous slides)
Website tour
Questionnaire

This class will be

45% discussions and activities grounded in personal experience and readings
35% project development
20% lecture

☽☼ Homework for next week

Sign the Code of Conduct by adding a comment of your name at the bottom
Create an account on are.na and join our group ✶
Fill out the class questionnaire
Read/watch at least 3 of the following grounding resources and
Create a response to these texts, this can be writing, a drawing, a website, or something else! Include questions, impressions, sketches, and notes. If you choose to share a written response, aim for ~200 words. If you choose a drawing or other medium, upload the documentation to the channel.
- Share your responses to this channel as text blocks, images, or links and be prepared to share with the class a little about what you’re sharing. Reminder to join our group ✶
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- Alternative: