What is the Feminist Future(s) Hackathon?

We’ll begin with a kickoff, and then you will form teams to work on a project of your choice for the month. We’ll give you weekly design milestones, and your teams will work together however you like during the week! Together we’ll create concepts, sketch our ideas, and prototype what we imagine. We’ll check in with teams weekly, and you’ll also get feedback from your mentors. At the end of the month, we’ll have a celebration!

This project is brought to you by members of the “Make the Breast Pump Not Suck!” collaborative. We love producing hackathons that help us imagine and prototype more just and equitable worlds. It’s also part of a research project at MIT about changing the culture of technology innovation spaces.

The hackathon will have four tracks: Reproductive Justice, the Care Economy, Prison Abolition, and Environmental Justice. Each track will be produced in partnership with a community organization who will help shape design challenges for participants. When you apply, you will select a track to join.

In teams mentored by community organizations, we will design interventions for reproductive justice, the care economy, abolition, and environmental justice. Your team will decide what project you work on for the month! From art activism, to community gardens, to planning for mutual aid, we believe that innovation doesn’t need to be high-tech to be high-impact.