This sounds a lot like how one of my friends describes it. She’s a riot — she jokes that she came out as trans because as a chronic tech nerd, she reached a fork in the road where it was either “libertarian tech bro” or “anarchist cat girl”.
Unrelated to that anecdote, as a queer cis woman, certainly a lot of the joy and catharsis I get from tinkering with tech feels like the same fulfillment I derive from queer community. I think there’s a lot to be said for how a person’s perspective influences how they approach problems. Like, as a scientist, there are definitely areas where I feel like being a queer, autistic woman affects how I approach a problem.
BluesF@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s natural as a queer person to seek to protect yourself, because the world is more dangerous for us.
reallyzen@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Isn’t there something also about freedom in here? About expressing oneself? With the limited freedom society gives our bodies and behaviours, hacking our hardware to get it to do as we please is a form of freedom, and of self-expression. With a healthy dose of show-them-the-middle-finger to everything oligarchic and conservative around us.
That, of course, with the desperately needed privacy on top.
snowsynth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Yeah I can express myself like this without worrying about what people irl think of me.