I spoke about the enormous brilliance of this project by femme genuis Micha Bailadora as an example of embodied interesectionality and interdependence McMaster Health Forum. Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is an artivist project focused on creating networks of communication to increase community autonomy and reduce violence against women, LGBTQI people, people of color and other groups who continue to survive violence on a daily basis. The networks are both online and offline, including handmade wearable electronic fashion and face to face agreements between people. Autonets considers how movement is a technology and how dance and performance can be used to develop networks for community based responses to violence. The Autonets networks are being established through a series of workshops, performances, presentations and discussions at art, activist and academic venues in the Americas and Europe. The project was started by micha cárdenas but is rapidly expanding into an ecology of networks involving many artists, hackers and activists.Autonets includes a line of mesh networked electronic clothing with the goal of building autonomous local networks that don’t rely on corporate infrastructure to function, inspired by community based, anti-racist, prison abolitionist responses to gendered violence. The Autonets garments are still in prototype stage, yet when completed, they will be able to alert everyone in range of the the local mesh network who is wearing another Autonet garment that someone needs help and will indicate that person’s direction and distance. autonets.org/
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