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Mary Maggic is an artist and nomadic biohacker working at the intersection of biotechnology, cultural discourse, and civil disobedience. Her most recent project Open Source Estrogen seeks to emancipate the estrogen molecule, demonstrating its biopolitical ubiquity and ability to problematize sex and gender constructs. Her project, the Molecular Queering Agency, is here to guide you through the process of queering. Thanks to petrochemical, agricultural, and pharmaceutical forces, we live in a toxic landscape that is colonized by hormones. These endocrine disrupting molecules are able to transfect change at the morphological level, queering our bodies and bodies of non-human species. There is nothing that illustrates Haraway's concept of making kin like our collective queering in becoming, problematizing the heteronormative constructs of sex and gender. Can we embrace the molecular glitch to our bodies, and create a discourse that liberates us from the glorification of "natural?" The Molecular Queering Agency invites participants to be colonized by various samples of hormones extracted from biological and ecological sources.

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+Mary Maggic is an artist and nomadic biohacker working at the intersection of biotechnology, cultural discourse, and civil disobedience. Her most recent project Open Source Estrogen seeks to emancipate the estrogen molecule, demonstrating its biopolitical ubiquity and ability to problematize sex and gender constructs. Her project, the Molecular Queering Agency, is here to guide you through the process of queering. Thanks to petrochemical, agricultural, and pharmaceutical forces, we live in a toxic landscape that is colonized by hormones. These endocrine disrupting molecules are able to transfect change at the morphological level, queering our bodies and bodies of non-human species. There is nothing that illustrates Haraway's concept of making kin like our collective queering in becoming, problematizing the heteronormative constructs of sex and gender. Can we embrace the molecular glitch to our bodies, and create a discourse that liberates us from the glorification of "natural?" The Molecular Queering Agency invites participants to be colonized by various samples of hormones extracted from biological and ecological sources.
-|Name=Digital Habits Workshop
-|Location=NDSM Fuse
-|Date=2019/07/17
-|Time=19:00-22:00
-|PeopleOrganisations=Jennifer Veldman
-|Type=Meetup
-|Web=Yes
-|Print=No
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-This workshop was part of the [[HDSA2019 Public Program]] Public Program of the Hackers & Designers Summer Academy of 2019 and was led by [[Jennifer Veldman]]. Critical Alignment Yoga was used to explore our own habits and preferred patterns and how we can manipulate ourselves towards positive habits. The knowledge gained during the yoga session is included in exercises and a discussion about our use of digital technology. (How) can you manipulate yourself?
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-* How long have you been awake before you first check your phone?
-* How often and how long are you online per day?
-* How often are you online longer and more often than you intended?
-For many the answer to the last question is something in the direction: "(too) often". We walk around with slotmachines in our pocket. The software that we use every day made our lives a lot easier and better in some ways, but has also been developed to manipulate us in the developing habits by physically and mentally programming us to spend more and more time on that one site or platform.
-'''Who was this workshop for?'''
-* Anyone who wants to live with digital tools, but doesn't want to be controlled by them;
-* Anyone who thinks (s)he is stiff or uncoordinated;
-* Anyone who wants to get a grip on their stress level, without banning digital devices.
-'''In this workshop:'''
-* We took a look at the attention engineering used to built software;
-* Learned to become aware of your preferred patterns with open attention;
-* Got practical tips to get a better grip on your smartphone (or other devices) usage;
-* And we did this with the help of accessible exercises borrowed from Critical Alignment Yoga.
-This was a workshop of [[https://datawatchers.eu/ Data Watchers.eu]]
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