Don't despair, tools for online collaboration are everywhere! Here are a few tips and tricks to support women and trans geeks. Also included? Names of several organizations working to make the internet free & open for all kinds!

1. is the internet
getting you down?
@darshancampos
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2. @darshancampos
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do you ever wonder where is the ‘me’ in memes?
or why memes tend to be so mean?
& what it is all means –
the porn, the scorn, the reddit police?

3. are you tired of bullies & trolls?
perhaps you’re scared of the spies?
oh, how the government lies!
@darshancampos
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4. @darshancampos
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beware, the spies are everywhere!
& it isn’t just the nsa via webcam.
even your mom’s watching your moves on instagram.
it’s true, boo hoo!

5. @darshancampos
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so i ask again:
is the internet getting you down?

6. @darshancampos
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does it feel like endgame for
sister freaks & trans geeks in games?
perhaps your guild feels unsafe,
peopled more by real life orcs than sweet, sexy dorks?

7. perhaps you’ve tweeted your last stand –
– only to find yourself
doxxed by folks who claim the
anonymous upper hand?
@darshancampos
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8. @darshancampos
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(hey hey, anonymity isn’t
Anonymous,
no way!)

9. @darshancampos
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if the internet is
getting you down,
i’ve got a remedy.

10. @darshancampos
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it’s really quite simple & rather matter of fact.
we’re smarter in community. & safer to boot.

11. @darshancampos
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whether we wear a white hat or black,
cloak or communicator,
when we form guilds of sister freaks & trans geeks,
we’re more resistant to the
infection of internet sexism.

12. @darshancampos
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together we can more easily escape the
internet’s fireswamp of sexist shenanigans.

13. @darshancampos
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more swiftly avoid its swamps of sadness.
more deftly detect its territorializing trolls.

14. @darshancampos
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so sister freaks & trans geeks,
move up & out.

15. @darshancampos
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because you’re right, you know –
the internet is for everyone!

16. @darshancampos
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it’s more than possible – it’s entirely true!
there’s so many online communities for you!
one, two, how about a few?

17. @darshancampos
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make the decision to check out the hawkeye initiative!
what’s sexism in your face but a call for sass,
satire, & sisterhood?

18. @darshancampos
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or introduce yourself to
the ada initiative!
ada’s really quite awesome,
she’s political too, because
satire won’t unseat the senate
or send trolls back to the zoo.

19. @darshancampos
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grassroots organizing,
even online? yes! &
beyond petition time!

20. @darshancampos
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try padlet, perhaps, to solicit more smarts. such a
pretty platform to organize, strategize,
prioritize, & then mobilize.

21. @darshancampos
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bust down the doors of the internet trolls by blogging for freedom
& feminism too!

22. last but not least, have heart & take pride
& start to strategize!
make your own stuff! mine your own turf!
really. literally. digitally.
@darshancampos
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23. we can do it – & code it.
that’s how we own it!
@darshancampos
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24. @darshancampos
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let’s take back the
internet like we
take back our
streets ... … from rapists &
bullies &
racist police.

25. and show how internet’s free & open
for all kinds!
…. all genders ….
…. all gamers ….
…. all geeks ….
@darshancampos
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26. & our tweeting, well-meaning mothers too.
@darshancampos
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27. big to all
the contributors
to the creative commons.
You can find most of these
images on flickr!
@darshancampos
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28. a public internet announcement
: by :
darshan elena campos, ph.d.
@darshancampos
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