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About

Oh gosh I'm not very good at talking about myself.

Things to know about me:

🏳️‍⚧️ trans
♠️ aro/ace
🌶️ autistic
💚 polyamorous
😺 furry
🎂 1999
⏰ eastern time zone (UTC-04:00 / UTC-05:00)

This Site

I'm tired of the big business corpo web. I'm tired of social media. I miss the era of blogs and personal sites and silly little things people build on the internet just for the fun of it.

I make websites professionally, but I've come to be disillusioned with the modern web. I want to go back to when computing was fun and simple. I'm drawn to the principles of the smallweb and the indieweb movements, so I'm building my own little corner of the web where things are simpler.

This site is just some HTML and CSS that I wrote with my own two paws. I'm always happy to have guests, so feel free to make yourself at home.

Projects

🗃️ Ace Archive

Ace Archive is a curated digital archive of asexual and aromantic history that I run under the name Frawley.

🗓️ FanJam

FanJam is an event planning app that bridges the gap between a single person with a spreadsheet and the kinds of people who can afford enterprise event planning software.

🖤 Discuss.love

Discuss.love is a tool for negotiating relationships, in the style of the "relationship smorgasbord" exercise.

🛟 Not Without Help

Not Without Help is a tool for connecting activist groups with people who want to help. It's an inbox for organizers to collect contact information from folks who are interested, and where volunteers can share information about what kinds of help they can offer.

Talks

If you live in the Boston area and have an organization, club, or friend group who wants to listen to me yap for approximately 40 minutes, please get in touch! If I can get to you via the T, the only fee is good vibes.

🏛️ Archivist Rebellion: Defending Queer History

Join Lark Aster from the Ace Archive project to learn how and guerrilla archiving and community support puts queer history back into the hands of queer people.

Who do we entrust to preserve the history of our communities when the people in power are trying to erase us? In a landscape where schools, libraries, and academic institution are under attack, guerrilla archivists are turning out and running underground operations out of apartments, closets, and bedrooms across the country to save our history while we still can.

Ace Archive is a participatory queer history project to archive the history of the asexual and aromantic communities. Learn what Lark's work as an amateur archivist has taught it about community engagement, resistance, and the nature of activism. Lark will talk about blogging carnivals, copyright law, asexual manifestos, emailing strangers, 19th-century German sexology, The Chastity Underground, and that zine they found in Providence that changed everything.

💾 A House of Cards: Building a Sustainable Digital Future

The tech industry has spent decades chasing bigger numbers, so why does it feel like our phones and laptops are only getting slower and more expensive every year? The digital world we've built for ourselves is a house of cards--an intractable system that is technologically, ecologically, and socially unsustainable. So what do we do? Furries are hacking game consoles and creating wireless protogen communication protocols. An art collective on the fringes of civilization is building computers from e-waste. Indie developers are resurrecting a failed experiment that was almost the internet. Join digital archivist and recovering technologist Lark Aster to learn how we can wrestle power out of the hands of the tech elite to build a more sustainable and equitable digital future.

More Stuff

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