Did you know women were involved in technology in the 1800’s? Ada Lovelace passed away in 1852, and was very instrumental in Charles Babbage’s analytical engine. Most of us here on BnG and within the Sex Worker community in general are Female Identified, so I think it’s important that we recognize our amazingness!
As part of Ada Lovelace Day, I want to take a minute to share some of the amazing things Sex Workers have done with technology.
- Some Sex Workers have day jobs in technology!
- Sex Work has turned safer by our use of technology, for example our screening process has become much safer by use of email, cell phones, etc.
- We’ve been adopting technology before the mainstream, think twitter, myspace, facebook, etc..
- We are building blogs, websites, forums and discussion lists for our organizing.
- Some of us are building our own Video’s, making movies, podcasts, etc.
- We are finding new creative uses for twitter, etc.
- One of our own has helped found their own Web 2.0 technology Company!
- We have our very own Film and Art festival, where our own self-made videos have a chance to be seen by the world at large!
I’m sure there are many many things I’m forgetting, so please chime in below with links, stories and thoughts on the cool amazing things we are all doing! I haven’t given any names, or links to people, because of privacy concerns for those present.
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