The Exodus Tour

Sign Ups (US-In Person)

The Exodus Tour is a series of Workshops on Digital Marronage. Digital marronage is about reclaiming our love and relationships by reviving protocols from ancestries for connecting with each other.

This is not a coding Bootcamp. It's a 🌅 REVIVAL🌅.

Memory is the mode imagination here.

📍The locations of the workshops will be divulged via private message.

🍱There will be food/light refreshments at each of the workshops. Please feel free to order your own food as well.

On the first day, we will get to collectively make some exits! We’ll download open source and privacy forward software onto our phones and computers, talk about what open-source means, and explore the meaning of protocols. This is for you if your "de-Googling" list keeps growing and you're overwhelmed with all the stuff you "need" to download. ~2 hours

On the second day, we’ll learn how to work with servers, Bash, and the principles of the decentralized web while reimagining relationships beyond extraction and accumulation. In small groups, participants will create collages for protocols from found futures, drawn from ancestral memory. Together, these collages will become a shared repository of “fugitive protocols” — alternative ways of building and being on the web. ~4 hours

On day three, we'll explore how the internet works. This three-hour workshop explores the physical components of connectivity and how the internet actually reaches us. Participants will trace a path from the undersea cables that carry global data to the local hardware that makes everyday connection possible, and then build a mini-version of the internet themselves. Drawing on familiar experiences—like typing a web address into a browser or holding a phone by a window for better signal—we’ll translate intuitive knowledge into foundational skills for creating independent networks. Together, we’ll experiment with building portable and mesh networks that place the power of connectivity in our own hands, rather than leaving it to the shifting preferences of an expanding technocracy. ~3 hours

These workshops are an invitation to my own learning process and a sharing of my own w@ndering. 🔥Because of the continuation of this work depending on others, I ask that folks come in groups of 2s, 4s, or 8s.🔥

Bring your laptop 💻 or let me know that you need access to one below.

There's no real "due date". This is a sign up form as opposed to some form of an application. We're going to have to work with each other. 🙃 I just want to know that you're coming and a little bit about you.

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* FOR DETROIT ONLY: Please note that because of overlap with the MdW conference, we are think of changing (Day 3) Saturday, June 27th time to 3-6 PM in Detroit to make room for shared attendance.

About You & Your Group

What name should I use to address you? (Each of your names or a name with which to address you collectively).

How can I let you know that there's room for you and share the address/location with you? (One point person on behalf of a collective is fine)

Signal Username

Share your email.

Share your signal username here.

How many people are you filling this out for, including yourself? (If you can really only come alone, let me know and I'll try and pair you with someone else!)

Which city are you wanting to attend? Select One. Consider this an RSVP to that city.

Are you comfortable doing this in English? If not, what language(s) are you able to take this workshop in?

Do (one of) you have a laptop you can bring?

Yes

Which workshop(s) are you wanting to attend?

Scrubbing Session

Bit Byter Workshop

Networking

Access Needs

I hope to have snacks on day two and three. What kind(s) of diet do you find accommodating and nourishing?

What Access considerations would make this more gentle? Put N/A if none.

Questions to build out a priority 📈

The following question are optional, but help us decide how to prioritize aligned participants on the off-chance that more than 16 people sign up for all three days. There are no racial or identity requirements for this workshop.

Are you black?

Yes

Prefer not to say

Are you queer?

Yes

Prefer not to say

Are you a person of color? Or from the global south (even if a descendant of Europeans)? Are you rendered subaltern because of your ideas or identity?

The workshops are open to the public, but on the off-chance there are too many sign-ups, we want to prioritize learning with folks who are subaltern in their context.

Have you tried leaving the hegemonic web?

Yes

Even if you have not tried an exit, what barriers or challenges have come up for you in leaving the hegemonic web?

Choose all that apply.

Even if you have not tried an exit, what barriers or challenges have come up for you in leaving the hegemonic web?

What feelings do you have about being surveilled?

Angry

Afraid

Indifferent

Other

Do you want to write more about how you feel about being surveilled?

What, if anything in the above description or on the website excites you or compelled you to attend?

Would you like to stay connected to our work and receive updates on our work?

Yes

How would you like to stay in touch?

Matrix (A Slack type of tool)

Signal