I’m posting this a bit late, but I didn’t want to forget to mention how much I enjoyed presenting my current work, a collaboration with Dan Sutko titled The Women of El Toro (made possible by a grant from CalHumanities) at Digital Frontiers. It was refreshing to talk about our iOS app among like-minded peers interested in the digital, the humanities and storytelling.
I also enjoyed speaking up about women making with code. Yes! Learn to code. Learn to make. Women aren’t, typically, afraid to make a blanket for a newborn (well, I must admit, I’m a bit fearful of the sewing machine and I do recognize this is a problematic way to start the sentence but hang with me here), why should we be afraid to make apps or websites or software or anything else that requires code? It especially felt good to talk to some female grad students after the session about their practice in development.