Thems 'N Femmes (& other minorities) in Maker Tech
A growing list of femmes, queers, BIPOC, disabled, poor and other marginalized, usually nearly invisible folks in "tech". This list bends towards Hardware Hacking, EE and Engineering culture, but is not at all exclusive. Please, please tell me if you want to be added or removed.
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@lasermistress.bsky.social
@thegella.bsky.social
Library makerspace geek. Creative Technologist & Educator. She/her. I make costumes, crafts, & tech 🧵 ✂️⚡ www.gellacraft.com Also online at: chaos.social/@gella instagram.com/the_gella
@sarahndipitous.bsky.social
Artist * Author * Inventor of Needful Things * Mother of Makers * DIY Female MacGyver * Pilots Invisible Jet * Works in a Secret Batcave * Uses Her Superpowers for Good * Pays It Forward*
@buzzyrobin.bsky.social
buzzy-brained birb 𓅫 ⨳ they/she, 40, 🏳⚧ ⨳ unceded Wallumedegal land ⨳ electronics, industrial design + dfma (aspirational), fire, minis, swords, (grudgingly) coding ⨳ https://cooltech.zone/tangara/ mostly over on fedi: https://chaos.social/@buzzyrobin
@girlsintocoding.bsky.social
We are • a mum & daughter team, Helene & Avye (17) • a social organisation • empowering girls with hands-on Tech & Engineering activities.
@haecksen.bsky.social
Haecksen - Technik, Hacking, intersektioneller Feminismus, Making, Wissenschaft, Kunst https://www.haecksen.org/wer-sind-die-haecksen/
@jmakivic.bsky.social
I make alternative controller games about ghosts, organic technologies and parallel worlds.
@adellelin.bsky.social
Artist, technologist, indie games, working on the resistance @newinc @onx @nycresistor Faculty at Parsons and helping out at the Math Museum in NYC adelleninja.com
@annapendergrast.bsky.social
Writing about tech, data and infrastructure + their impacts on people and planet. Occasional posts about buildings and food. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
@omgchomp.bsky.social
social media producer, cosplayer, vintage tech enthusiast linktr.ee/omgchomp
@eladarling.bsky.social
VR XXX Queen, TEDx-er, Ex-librarian, Chaotic Good, amateur roboticist, and Stoned Adulterer 🍄 ATX Work- RealDoll Play- http://zez.am/eladarling 📧 ela.darling@gmail she/her
@jamiejoyce.bsky.social
Serving the public @SocietyLibrary and @InternetArchive // Makes particle accelerator art⚡ // She/Her ᓚᘏᗢ
@violetblue.bsky.social
Awarded author, journalist: cybersecurity, privacy, digital human rights, Covid. WIRED, PopSci, Spinoff, Engadget, FT, IFJ. Visiting Scholar at Stout Research Centre, NZ. Bio: about.me/violetblue Pod: linktr.ee/raisedbyhorror News: patreon.com/violetblue
@debcha.bsky.social
Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
@aeva.online
open source hack of minor notoriety. former CISA, MSFT, OSI. unapologetically queer. all opinions 💯 mine.
@recursecenter.bsky.social
The retreat where curious programmers recharge and grow. Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously. We'll be posting all the cool stuff Recursers are making!
@nadiehbremer.com
Award-winning Data Visualization Designer & Data Artist | Founder of Visual Cinnamon | Graduated Astronomer ✨ | Author of "CHART" & "Data Sketches" | 🇳🇱 VisualCinnamon.com
@annaleen.bsky.social
bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers bylines: New Scientist, Washington Post, etc. pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
@veni.dev
🌈 Founder of @DiversifyTech.com 👒 I wear many hats as a dev + founder 🐥 Mom to two girls 🧠 Neurodivergent 🍿 K-drama fan ✨ she/her 🔗 https://buff.ly/41WjmcB
@vogueandcode.bsky.social
2X Published Tech Author ✍🏾 Python + AI Developer 👩🏾💻 Developer Advocate @ Microsoft 🥑
@sailorhg.com
putting the ✿soft✿ in software engineer 🇮🇩🇺🇸 ✿ shop.bubblesort.io ✿ sailorhg.com
@noopkat.fragile.systems
Soft person. Likes infosec, open source, electronics, reading, education, and privacy.
@3dprintbunny.bsky.social
3d printing artist, designer and all round enthusiast. I love experimenting and playing with printers and slicers.
@baricks.bsky.social
Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Public interest tech at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. Prev: Head of Open Source Research @mozilla.org, Technologist / Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU. she/her. 〰️
@snubs.bsky.social
💕 YouTube Tech Content Creator 💕 🥳 130k+ https://youtube.com/@ShannonMorse 🌙 Sailor Moon Expert & Collector 🌙 https://youtube.com/@SailorSnubs 🦄 She/Her/Cylon/Unicorn/Witch 🦄 📸✈️🎮👩💻🌻🔮
@janelleshane.com
I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com Also a research scientist in optics. She/her. Colorado, USA
@tracketpacer.bsky.social
🚀 rockit network engineer 👩🏼💻that lil voice in yr head singing abt ethernet 🛜 weird use cases & silly tech! 💌 tracket@tracketpacer.com 🌎 tracketpacer.com
@taeluralexis.bsky.social
Hi I’m cyberbarbie, a nomadic security analyst 🦄 https://taeluralexis.com
@pipix1.bsky.social
As herself and no one else. She/her. Loves open hardware, libraries, adorable robots and baby elephants.
@drcaberry.bsky.social
Electrical Engineering Professor, Robotics Engineer, Author, Speaker, Researcher, Mentor, Advocate. Here to promote, normalize and diversify STEM. #MySTEMIsForTheStreets #Forbes50Over50 CarlottaArdell.com, NoireSTEMinist.com
@roombaroulette.bsky.social
Riot (they/them) ♡ LVL 38 🎮 ♡ AuDHD ♡ polyam ♡ goth Cozy Games • DnD • Art • Magic • Wrestling • Cats \\virtual assistant for artists & creators\\ https://vaforartists.carrd.co ✉️ vaforartists@gmail.com
@phoenixperry.bsky.social
researching play, experience design, machine learning, cognition, making, and games. I hold hands with strangers. 💜🕹 Typos promised.🛼❤️
@cmd.wtf
👩🏻💻 coding | ⚡ e-engineering | 🎮 gaming | 🧝🏻 ttrping | 🛼 skating | 🏳️⚧️ fighting for human rights a perpetual mess cleverly disguised as a functional human being i was @_nitz on the bird app forever ago ✨ cmd.wtf ✨ any pronouns
@helenleigh.bsky.social
Hardware hacker, author & maker of musical oddities Cymru - London - Berlin - Portland
@nasirexists.bsky.social
Sickle Cell Survivor. MechE student. Same @ on everything. ∵📍Dubai, UAE🇦🇪 https://www.instagram.com/nasirexists
@maxinethemooshroom.bsky.social
General and Embedded Software Engineer that likes to take on weird projects! LOOKING FOR WORK! Located in Pittsburgh Post-Humanist, Feminist, Absurdist Poly 💜💜💜 Wifey~ @rummik.bsky.social 🖤🖤🖤 Gf~ @softlavendarcow.bsky.social
@annaressman.bsky.social
privacy, security, doom. Frequently sincere posting. Header image is one of my photos of the old Chicago Sun-Times building being dismantled. She/her. Antiracist.
@mintopia.net
Software Architect, Freelance network, broadcast and event engineer. Ask me about LanCache! ADHD. She/Her 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@clomads.bsky.social
I make stuff at vdbx.io I talk about that stuff a lot. I live in a school bus named Gary Bussy. I do all my own stunts. Portfolio: www.clomads.com
@sophikravitz.bsky.social
Wildly optimistic. Artist / Electronic engineer Exploring soundscapes, environmental data, and multi-eyed creatures
@straithe.com
security and privacy researcher with a penchant for artistic chaos she/her straithe.com 🇨🇦
@sorceress.emma.ly
she/her • 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • recovering serial project abandoner; former IT manager, now serving as the Data Sorceress; intensely gay in every way Twitch strim @ http://sorceressemmaly.com
@lizmcfarland.bsky.social
Technical writer and cosplayer based in Los Angeles. I help run CRASH Space, a local hackerspace. She/her.
@logicalelegance.bsky.social
Author of Making Embedded Systems, host of Embedded.fm, maker of strange origami.
@ellierose.me
🏳️⚧️ she/her 💃 THE hot girl of 3D chocolate printing 🍫 Founder Cocoa Press (cocoapress.com) 🦣 Battlebots - team Mammoth 🔔 Philadelphia ✌️ DFTBA 💕 Welcome to my page!
@musicologess.bsky.social
Ph.D (Ludomusicology & Disability Studies), Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games, Game Sound Con Advisory Board (Game Audio Studies Track), NACVGM programming committee, freelance violinist, she/her.
@thatdisasterauthor.bsky.social
Queer author+illustrator from Colorado. Wildland Fire Dispatcher. 🎃🏳️🌈🏔️ Art+Writing: www.AspenAndCopper.com Disaster Blogging: www.Katy-L-Wood.com Tumblr: @ThatDisasterAuthor
@lauraehall.bsky.social
Mysteries, puzzles, adventures. I make games & escape rooms, write books & preserve immersive history. PDX. They/she PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE (Simon & Schuster), KATAMARI DAMACY (Boss Fight Books) ✨ lauraehall.com 🔎 cfia.org 🎙️ eggplant.show
@alexglow.bsky.social
Sustainable electronics, robots, PCBs, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, open-source DIY hardware... plus music, languages, and art :D • @alexglow@chaos.social • Was @glowascii on bird site • she/her • chaotic good
@sjpiper145.bsky.social
She/her, Creative Technologist, Author of Skill Seeker, Designer of Electronics kits, Australian / Website: http://makerqueen.com.au Store: http://makerqueenau.etsy.com
@alpenglow.bsky.social
Irreverent electronics for makers and modern yarn tools for crafters. Yes, both. A very small business in San Luis Obispo (SLO), CA, USA, owned by Carrie Sundra, the real live human (she/her) who is behind these posts. 🛠⚡️✨🖕🦄 🧶 www.alpenglowindustries.com
@sequoia.farm
Robotics engineer, anarchist, open source contributor. Abolish prisons. Trans rights. Free Palestine. All people deserve food and shelter and love. I’m actually a dog dressed as a bicyclist woof woof. Sometimes feral. Oakland, CA - alt: @feral.sequoia.farm
@claireprice.bsky.social
Jack of all trades. Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences and Founder of Merthyr Science Festival (merthyrscience.bsky.social). "Not weird, just a bit odd" https://404normalnotfound.co.uk/
@supervee.bsky.social
✨ design at shopify ⌨️ artisan keycap maker https://nonamekeys.com
@mintlodica.com
Mintlodica® 🌿 Mechanical Keyboards Keycaps & Deskmats 🌙 Magic Girl, Witch Girl, Pastel Dreams, Sad Girl, & more to come 🌸 Shop: https://mintlodica.com 💬 Discord Partner: https://discord.gg/cutekeyboardclub 🩵
@anthocyanina.bsky.social
electronbender, repairer of things, herald of the great cat 🐱🙌, ager of empires, She/They
@katzcreates.bsky.social
Maker of things and solver of problems. Huge nerd, cosplay lover, and nonbinary human. They/them https://katzcreates.com/
@tinabelmont.bsky.social
SoftEgg® (She/She++) I make the things and sing the sings. I write the codes then hit the roads. Fight the fights to preserve trans rights. It's not a hard decision, death before detransition! tinabelmont.com tinabelmont.bandcamp.com
@chipperdoodles.bsky.social
bulbul, aka chipperdoodles. Anxious Artist, Trans anarchist nb mess. I make some pcb art, I like vintage keyboards. I used to make comics. Doot website: https://chippydootles.com/ webcomic: https://noties.org 35, They/Them
@zhiheather.bsky.social
Coding, knitting, building electronics, crochet, ancient history, violin, stitching, gaming, piano, mom-ing, physics, and general geekery.
@embeddedfm.bsky.social
Welcome to Embedded, a weekly podcast. We’re here to chat about the interests, careers, and lives of engineers, artists, educators and makers. Our diverse guest list includes names you may have heard and engineers working quietly in the trenches.
@aryafairywren.bsky.social
Things hacker, shit poaster Hope I can help ♥️ Clocks are a scam DMs open she/they mafia 🏳️⚧️ 🇺🇸/🇷🇺 location: EU Before a fight, you build. 🐭
@pingucat.bsky.social
I do artwork for hackers and throw parties. Art Director. Photographer. Illustrator. Projection Mapping. Ninja Networks | Glittercats | The Paranoids
@leeborg.bsky.social
artist. cyborg. professional enthusiastic weirdo. posts about electronics, making stuff, vintage tech, sometimes outer space. leecyb.org they/he/iel 🏳️⚧️⚧️ En/Fr 🦯🦮
@geekmomprojects.com
Tinkerer Maker Solderer Mom • lateral thinker • LEDs improve everything • she/her
@sad-electronics.bsky.social
@jennylist.bsky.social
Engineer and technical journalist. Contributing editor and European correspondent, Hackaday. Hackerspaces, Parkour, Trans Rescue. Tall, She/'Er. 🏳️⚧️
@maaike.bsky.social
Social Psychologist, digital native, checks sources,loves irony. Maker of humans, breaker of stuff, hacker of both. Tries not to judge.
@rebelbotjen.bsky.social
Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast host, Artistic Director of Cat Machines Dance, and Voiceover Talent. I guess I do engineering too (Project Jacquard, pixel buds and more) @rebelbotjen, @catmachinesSF, @unnamed_show, @rebelJenVo
@keystricken.bsky.social
she/her, President of the Too Many Projects club, has a lot of thoughts about robots. ardentfigments.com
@erinrose.bsky.social
I make neat things occasionally! also I’m gay 🏳️🌈 freelance product engineer / industrial designer, "dfma-witch", artist sometimes, meows at problems, disabled. wife of @peakthedog.bsky.social she/her. https://chaos.social/@ErinRose
@stephaniecodes.bsky.social
senior software eng. built an off-road vw t6 campervan & took it alone to iceland 🇮🇸. sometimes a maker/artist. granola/gropcore gravel bike girlie wannabe. i befriend crows. very AuDHD. she/her 📍berlin, germany steph@mastodon.social
@emsl.bsky.social
Makers and makers of writing machines and retro-technological curiosities. Now part of Bantam Tools @bantamtools.bsky.social
@artfromrachel.bsky.social
Environment / Hardsurface Artist - looking for work - Prev Sony Firewalk Studios Likes robots
@anu1905.bsky.social
An oddball maker and designer putting my own spin on yarn, code, culture, and hardware. Researcher at Neo4j. Dr. She/Her. www.anuradhareddy.com
@bleeptrack.de
Creative Technologist and award-winning Artist Speaker Randomness Sommelier ~from generative dreams to tangible art~ ~doing sidequests for a living~ #generativeart #creativecoding #opensource #maker #electronics #penplotter #solarpunk #tinyhouse
@1lenore.bsky.social
I have been called the "fairy godmother of making" and "ultimate reference librarian for matters maker, scientific, and technical." (she/her)
@nataliethenerd.com
🏳️🌈Self taught maker just trying to make and learn more. LEDs and Game Boys. and a bit of gaming ofc she/her https://links.nataliethenerd.com/
@amiedd.bsky.social
Software Engineer @Microsoft || Maker || Girls STEM Scholarship creator National VideogameMuseum || Electronics || LEGO Master || Cosplay || 3DPrint || 🦄 🛰️ Hacker || Past Marvel https://www.AmieDD.com Links: https://amiedd.tech/
@rachelraygun.bsky.social
Public library makerspace wizard🔮yeehaw magical girl 💖She/her. Icon by Sarah Graley.
@xychelsea.tv
@roxiqt.com
Extremely online internet gremlin & plague banisher 🥄💜 @roxiqt on Twitter & TikTok 🦝 roxiqt.com ✨🇨🇦 Toronto, ON
@elizas.website
e-girl (engineering girl) • interested in the kind of software nobody writes anymore • making computers at @oxide.computer • love too cheap to meter • nulla crux, nulla corona
@nonbinary.computer
Person who does electrical, computer, and music things. Might need to become first O.S. they/it/she
@adafruit.com
Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
@lucysrausch.bsky.social
Exploring Biology and Electronics for fun and profit. Synthetic Biology ␥ Digital Art & Electronic Music
@kaylyn.bsky.social
🌃 City Stargazer 🪐 Astronomically accurate 3D printing 🤖 FCFL makerspace board member 🐙 Recurse Center alumn 👩🏻💻 Programmer by day 🌌 https://lterraspace.etsy.com
@scopicengineer.bsky.social
Accessibility agitator in the streets. Sr. Digital Accessibility Analyst @ Salesforce in the sheets. Opinions and shitposts are my own. 24/7/365 absurdist. https://crystalprestonwatson.com/ https://a11ysavvy.com/
@realsexycyborg.bsky.social
China's #1 Tech & DIY YouTuber Open Source, 3D Printing & Digital Fabrication, Automation, Infosec 1/18th synthetic 'It's all about merit until merit has tits' Shenzhen, China youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg