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Livestream Announcement: What If A Database Was A Map?

Livestream Announcement: What If A Database Was A Map?

For our next livestream we're speaking with Arby Hisenaj from Common Knowledge about Mapped, a tool for organisers and campaigners that transforms databases and membership lists into interactive maps.

Book cover titled "The Reflective Workbook for Partners of Transgender People" by D. M. Maynard. Surrounding the cover are pages and covers of similar supportive resources.

Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street

Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall

Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall

a bunch of zines and badges laid out. (image repeats further down with more detailed alt text)

Zines are for Everyone

4 people gathering around to take a selfie infront of the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol

Karrot: Community Spotlight

A photograph of Kim (the author) watching themselves on a black and white CCTV screen on the Berlin subwa

Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology

A woman checking her phone and laptop at the same time

Have you noticed how our lives feel louder and lonelier every year?

Roundups

Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall

Autumn leaves! Staying aloft during the fall

Ever wanted to start a zine, a website, a computer game, or a food redistribution project? Catch up with others who have (and the ways to do so) in this round up of our autumn and the people, activities and opportunities which emerged during this year's conker season.

A sweeping aerial shot of hundreds of green flooded rice terraces down a set of mountains

What we did in July and August

An audience is gathered around a stage at a small bar. Kim is on stage, who is a white transfemme with long hair, wearing a pink blouse with her back to us.

Our first three months as the Geeks for Social Change Community!

Kim, Sean and Emma showcase a sticker that says Chips and a sticker that says Gravy (vegan)

GFSC's April Roundup

The words March Roundup next to a multipack of scampi fries stuck to an unappealing-looking wall.

GFSC's March Roundup

5 happy humans walking on a path in the sunshine and smiling at the camera

Introducing the future of Geeks for Social Change!

WIP

A photograph of Kim (the author) watching themselves on a black and white CCTV screen on the Berlin subwa

Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology

We shouldn't need platforms owned by the biggest losers on the planet to live happy, healthy, connected lives. Our fledgling network of technologists and organisers aims to make tech billionaires obsolete by co-creating our own means of production.

A woman checking her phone and laptop at the same time

Have you noticed how our lives feel louder and lonelier every year?

A crowd of varied queers stands around watching a man in a blue sweatshirt read off some notes. There are wine glasses and balloons in the forground, and a big Gendered Intelligence banner

Full Meta Jacket: How corporations colonised queer life and what we can do about it

How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

How to establish a Community Technology Partnership

Kim, Sean and Emma showcase a sticker that says Chips and a sticker that says Gravy (vegan)

GFSC's April Roundup

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

Promo image. Dungeons and Democracy - Can Deliberation Be Fun? There's a picketer with a sign saying: cast fireball please.

Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem

Intro

a bunch of zines and badges laid out. (image repeats further down with more detailed alt text)

Zines are for Everyone

Are zines life? Vicky has done her best to find out. Read about a life in self-publishing, starting Pen Fight Distro, and what the future might bring for working-class zinesters.

A pixel art image of a sheep whose head is part of their body.

Hope, then Excommunication, and then Hope Again

An iPad sketch showing Ava's face at the helm of a crudely drawn ship "RMS Trans", with three smokestacks. It's approaching a small island covered in guns which are shooting on the ship

Hello, I'm Ava!

Olu's pegboard with various colourful notes on it including a drawing of a fox and some slogans spelt out in scrabble tiles

Hi, I'm Olu!

A colourfu musical instruments surround a set of cards with numbers 1-5 saying "forest, snooker, wine, beige, the pyramids".

How GFSC got to here (Part 1)

A collage of emma's visual diaries

Introducing: Emma!

One of my art pieces that started off as a top down drawing of the coast but transitioned to a desert landscape when rotated.

I, Micah

Spotlight

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Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street

Karrot: Community Spotlight

Resilience Web: Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight: Mastodon

Vote Out Covid: community spotlight

Practice

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Out, damn Spotify!

Consensus decision making sucks

How we created a community digital commons: 8 years of PlaceCal

Accessibility: complexity and contradictions in graphic design

Dungeons & Democracy: Crowdwork As A Design Problem

Livestream

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Livestream Announcement: What If A Database Was A Map?

How we created a community digital commons: 8 years of PlaceCal

You Are The Client: We Make The Stickers