Who Are We?
[meet some of our organizers]
Fox
Aida
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Adam
AND YOU!#pleasetrythis19
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Jahed
Amanda
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Our Core Team:
In bringing people from different backgrounds together for this event, we have worked on balancing different sets of values and needs from our varied communities. This has involved balancing accountability and transparency with respecting privacy and security culture. Thus, while we want to put names and faces to this event, we also must acknowledge that not everyone who's been involved in shaping #pleasetrythis19 is in a position to be safely public about it. Countless hours of volunteer work, time, energy, money, creativity, and more resources have been brought into this project by people who cannot take public credit and it is important for us to name this reality. So, thank you to everyone involved in ways great and small whether or not your name is on this page; we couldn't do this without you!
FOX:
Fox is a professional massage therapist and recovering academic. Xe is fascinated by the idea of biohacking as a liberatory practice. In some previous incarnations, Fox studied institutional barriers that keep marginalized folks out of STEM careers; spent several years volunteering as an domestic violence survivor's advocate; and worked as a janitor on a research station in Antarctica. Xe knows lots of interesting people and xeir favorite thing in the world is introducing them to each other and getting to watch them connect.
Twitter: @VulpesExMachina
ADAM:
Adam is a doodlin' young trans dude from Pittsburgh who works too much, volunteers at the anarchist bookstore, and likes to eat bugs. He is responsible for all of our sweet art and design. See what he's working on at trashguts.com.
Twitter: @numeloid
JAHED:
Jahed is a PNW-based anarchist interested in epistemological anarchism applied to the authoritarian structures of organized medicine. He's into autonomous medicine and organization, crypto, and radical approaches to science. He writes long-form essays and a newsletter about various obscure topics at againstutopia.com.
Twitter: @againstutopia
AIDA:
Aida Manduley is an award-winning Latinx activist, trauma-focused therapist, and sexuality educator known for big earrings and tackling taboos. Their politics are radical, their glitter stash is always at the ready, and their nails are often sharp enough to kill a man. One of the most frequent questions they ask in biohacking spaces is "and then what...?" Their goal is to connect strange bedfellows and explore+address—with a harm reduction lens—the real world implications and ethical dilemmas biohacking work can bring up, especially with regard sexuality, anti-oppression, pleasure, gender evolution, end of life, and mental health.
Website: www.aidamanduley.com
Twitter: @neuronbomb
AMANDA:
Biohacker, cyborg, logistics nerd, Amanda (cyberlass) is active in the body augmenting community and is excited to see the current growth in open science. She sees how it is generating the power to transform society, and how it requires thoughtful examination of what our society is and what we aspire to be. She can be found loitering near people talking passionately -- usually about bioethics, full body autonomy, and social states and transformation. She’s excited to be helping with PTTAH and encourages people to reach out if they have questions.
Twitter: @cyberlass
Our Consultants:
We'd also like to express gratitude to our consultants for their guidance and invaluable help in making this event what it is. This has been a huge part of us being accountable to an intersectional and inclusive framework, one that doesn't merely pay lip service to anti-oppression work.
In bringing people from different backgrounds together for this event, we have worked on balancing different sets of values and needs from our varied communities. This has involved balancing accountability and transparency with respecting privacy and security culture. Thus, while we want to put names and faces to this event, we also must acknowledge that not everyone who's been involved in shaping #pleasetrythis19 is in a position to be safely public about it. Countless hours of volunteer work, time, energy, money, creativity, and more resources have been brought into this project by people who cannot take public credit and it is important for us to name this reality. So, thank you to everyone involved in ways great and small whether or not your name is on this page; we couldn't do this without you!
FOX:
Fox is a professional massage therapist and recovering academic. Xe is fascinated by the idea of biohacking as a liberatory practice. In some previous incarnations, Fox studied institutional barriers that keep marginalized folks out of STEM careers; spent several years volunteering as an domestic violence survivor's advocate; and worked as a janitor on a research station in Antarctica. Xe knows lots of interesting people and xeir favorite thing in the world is introducing them to each other and getting to watch them connect.
Twitter: @VulpesExMachina
ADAM:
Adam is a doodlin' young trans dude from Pittsburgh who works too much, volunteers at the anarchist bookstore, and likes to eat bugs. He is responsible for all of our sweet art and design. See what he's working on at trashguts.com.
Twitter: @numeloid
JAHED:
Jahed is a PNW-based anarchist interested in epistemological anarchism applied to the authoritarian structures of organized medicine. He's into autonomous medicine and organization, crypto, and radical approaches to science. He writes long-form essays and a newsletter about various obscure topics at againstutopia.com.
Twitter: @againstutopia
AIDA:
Aida Manduley is an award-winning Latinx activist, trauma-focused therapist, and sexuality educator known for big earrings and tackling taboos. Their politics are radical, their glitter stash is always at the ready, and their nails are often sharp enough to kill a man. One of the most frequent questions they ask in biohacking spaces is "and then what...?" Their goal is to connect strange bedfellows and explore+address—with a harm reduction lens—the real world implications and ethical dilemmas biohacking work can bring up, especially with regard sexuality, anti-oppression, pleasure, gender evolution, end of life, and mental health.
Website: www.aidamanduley.com
Twitter: @neuronbomb
AMANDA:
Biohacker, cyborg, logistics nerd, Amanda (cyberlass) is active in the body augmenting community and is excited to see the current growth in open science. She sees how it is generating the power to transform society, and how it requires thoughtful examination of what our society is and what we aspire to be. She can be found loitering near people talking passionately -- usually about bioethics, full body autonomy, and social states and transformation. She’s excited to be helping with PTTAH and encourages people to reach out if they have questions.
Twitter: @cyberlass
Our Consultants:
We'd also like to express gratitude to our consultants for their guidance and invaluable help in making this event what it is. This has been a huge part of us being accountable to an intersectional and inclusive framework, one that doesn't merely pay lip service to anti-oppression work.
- Sosa of Black Power Naps
- Dustin Gibson of the Harriet Tubman Collective
- Jess Benham of the Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Advocacy
- Charity Kheshgi, Sign Language Interpreter