poivron.org - passé/futur

...des filles se réapproprient ces outils, des meufs hackent leurs ordis, des femmes hybrident féminisme et technologie, des dégenrées décompilent les barrières imposées par la société, des individues codent et diffusent leur créativité, des cyber-révoltées visibilisent leur existence et encouragent d'autres à se manifester. grep|grrl est l'un de ces projets - canal IRC, espace d'auto-organisation, de rencontre & de visibilité -, à même de montrer aux geeks récalcitrants et aux autres certains espaces cachés de leurs claviers. Depuis ce début d'année, poivron.org est donc heureux d'héberger grepgrrl.org, que nous vous encourageons à visiter!

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Late at night, an IRC chat about tech, machine tweaking and kernel compiling. A nickname among others goes through the subject with ease, and eventually becomes central in the discussion. Another participant accosts the person behind the nickname, as if it was obviously a man. It seems like everyone believes each one's a male on the other side of the screen. Behind the anonymous identity is a woman, though. She eventually mentions it, and the tone of the conversation then suddenly evolves. After a first wave of astonishment comes mistrust, to be followed by fat sexist jokes. Just a too common & repeated scenario.

Because virility also lies within keystrokes, through ways of speaking, through means of putting forward one's capacities while refusing to help out others, through creating & feeding atmospheres of competition, through gently scorning beginners, through supposing that all computer knowledge comes from men, without questionning it further; because womyn are almost always excluded and so often invisibilised from computing environments - realms of men among others -; because womyn are lead to use simplified interfaces on Macintoshs, while men play with complicated PCs, just as girls are offered dolls, while boys play the firemen; because gendered construct is a proprietary code that has to be broken, for us to reprogram ourselves...

...some girls reclaim the tools, some chicks hack their computers, some womyn merge feminism and technology, some degendered persons decompile borders imposed by society, some fems code and spread their creativity, some cyber-revolted grrls go public and encourage others to come out. grep|grrl is one of these projects - an IRC channel, a self-organising board, a meeting & visibility space - that's able to show to reluctant geeks and others some hidden aspects of their keyboards. Since the beginning of this year, poivron.org happily hosts grepgrrl.org, and encourages you to pay it a visit!