change is in our bones

A presentation at All Things Open 2024 in October 2024 in Raleigh, NC, USA by fen aldrich

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change is in our bones by fen

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graceful extensibility – how systems stretch to handle surprises

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adaptive capacity – the ability to adapt and alter the system over time in response to feedback.

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change is in our bones

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  1. constant destruction and construction of the system

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  1. construction & destruction happens in response to stresses on the system

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  1. utilizing tight signaling between loosely coupled systems

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  1. happens without administrative oversight or control

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Resilience Engineering – a type of engineering applied to an already resilient system in order to bring its adaptive capacity to bear more e!ectively

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queer theory for lichens

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lichens

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lichens are queer things

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Shouldn’t a fish whose gonads can be first male, then female, help us to determine what constitutes “male” and “female”?… Shouldn’t the longterm female homosexual pair bonding in certain species of gulls help define our views of successful parenting, and help reflect on the 1 intersection of social norms and biology? 1. Sharon Kinsman “Life, Sex, and Cells.”

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we are all lichens

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Eating, digesting and living are impossible without our symbiotic relationships… if life and nature are to be found anywhere, it is not autonomous individuals but the constitutive comminglings, involvements, and interconnected relationships that make 1 up the ecological mesh. 1. David Gri!ths, “Queer Theory for Lichens”

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symbiosis is resilience and is inherently queer

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we live in a society

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medical v societal 1 models of disability 1. Stacy Cli!ord Simplican !e Capacity Contract

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medical (individual) view – treats illness that you (individually) have within you and separates you from the rest of society

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societal (symbiotic) view – interconnected systems and degrees of disability or illness existing inside it. How can we bring our natural resilience best to bear as a group to treat this problem?

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The comfort of individuality

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out groups almost always disempowered population

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HIV/AIDS

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COVID-19

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transition & resilience

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Gender Dysphoria

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Gender Dysphoria is kinda bullshit

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Gender Dysphoria is also medically important

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‘cause here’s the real secret of the universe. If you want to change sex, it’s possible. For all human history we’ve had this divide between men and women, but if you want to cross that divide, if you want to transcend it entirely 1 and be neither, it’s possible. 1. Abigail Thorn, Philosophy Tube: “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8

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In particular, hold in one hand all of masculinity, !or, Leonidas, Beowulf, James Bond, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, all of them. And in the other just two milligrams of estrogen a day and tell 1 me which one is more powerful. 1. Abigail Thorn, Philosophy Tube: “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8

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We live in a culture that valorizes men and treats them as the default but when you’re a trans woman you can take all of that and 1 just [blow it away] and be happier for it. 1. Abigail Thorn, Philosophy Tube: “I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8

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change is in our bones

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being transgender is an act of resilience

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  1. constant destruction and reconstruction of gender

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  1. in response to feedback (internal & external)

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  1. utilizing tight communication between loosely coupled systems

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  1. without—or often in spite of—central authoritative control

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mutual aid

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building symbiotic links between individuals -orcommunities of support

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Education – stories & social media – zines – community maintained websites: – https://transfemscience.org – https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en

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Mutual Aid: a Factor of Evolution - Petr Kropotkin

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capitalism has an endless capacity to co-opt revolutionary movements and sell back SAFe versions for our consumption that do not challenge existing power structures

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[Resilience engineering] is an attempt to bring the resilience, which is located in the people who are actually maintaining our systems, to bear in ways that allow it to 1 flow more e!ectively to improve function. 1. Dr. Richard Cook, A Few Observations on the Marvelous Resilience of Bone & Resilience Engineering

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we are all lichen

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change is in our bones

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fen aldrich Developer Advocate @ Equinix : @crayzeigh.com : faldrich@equinix.com : speaking.crayzeigh.com