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Double Union is a
Why Silicon Valley Needs The Coder Grrrls Of Double Union, The Feminist Hacker Space
" Key-carrying members are allowed to invite guests of any gender.
DU was founded in 2013 by a group of about ten women including
San Francisco
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hacker/maker space. Double Union was founded by women in 2013 with the explicit goal of fostering a creative safe space. The organization's mission is to be a community workshop where women and nonbinary people can work on projects in a comfortable, welcoming environment.
Members hold public and members-only events for activities and workshops like zine
A zine ( ; short for ''magazine'' or ''fanzine'') is, as noted on Merriam-Webster’s official website, a magazine that is a “noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject ...
making, paper circuits and electronics, coding, sewing, 3-dimensional printing, lightning talks, print making and many others.Greenfield, Rebecca.Why Silicon Valley Needs The Coder Grrrls Of Double Union, The Feminist Hacker Space
" Key-carrying members are allowed to invite guests of any gender.
History
DU was founded in 2013 by a group of about ten women including Amelia Greenhall
Amelia Cousins Greenhall is an American feminist tech blogger. She cofounded feminist tech blog and publication ''Model View Culture'' with Shanley Kane. Greenhall is co-founder and Executive Director of Double Union, a feminist women-and-no ...
, Valerie Aurora, Liz Henry and Ari Lacenski from their connections at other hackerspace
A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, hackspace, or makerspace) is a community-operated, often "not for profit" (501(c)(3) in the United States), workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, sci ...
s; at The Ada Initiative's feminist unconference
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid hierarchical aspects of a conventional conference, such as sponsored presentations and top-down organizati ...
, AdaCamp; and through Geekfeminism.org, collecting initial funding through an Indiegogo campaign. Later that year, Lacenski left the group, claiming that two unnamed cofounders practiced a form of activism that she considered too aggressive. There is a board of directors and a structure in place for voting in new members; as of 2015, there are around 150–200 members.
DU's logo is a bright pink Unicode
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character (U+22D3), from the Mathematical Operators block.
Originally located in the Mission district
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at 14th and Mission in the Fog Building, Double Union relocated to the Potrero Hill
Potrero Hill is a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is known for being one of the sunniest neighborhoods in the city and having view of the skyline, Sutro Tower, Twin Peaks, and the bay. A working-class neighborhood unt ...
neighborhood of San Francisco in fall 2015 after their building was sold by the landlord. To fund the move and several equipment purchases, Double Union undertook an Indiegogo
Indiegogo is an American crowdfunding website founded in 2008 by Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin, and Eric Schell. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California. The site is one of the first sites to offer crowd funding. Indiegogo allows peo ...
campaign, which finished at 106 percent of its goal. They stayed in Potero Hill until September 2020, when they temporarily closed due to the pandemic. In September 2021, they reopened at a new location in SOMA.
Projects
App
Several Double Union members have created an app for managing hackerspace membership applications, Arooo. Arooo is free to use and is licensed under the GNU GPL.ODD
Double Union created the Open Diversity Data project. The project aggregates diversity data for a wide array of tech companies.See also
* Liberating Ourselves Locally * Mothership HackerMoms *Noisebridge
Noisebridge is an anarchism, anarchistic maker and hackerspace located in San Francisco. It is inspired by the European hackerspaces Metalab in Vienna and c-base in Berlin. Noisebridge describes itself as "''a space for sharing, creation, coll ...
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