Gwyndolyn
Gwyndolyn is a former performer and practicing kink educator of over a decade who finds fulfillment in a wide variety of skills. They have taught classes on a variety of kink and mundane topics, including rope safety for models and lighting for fetish photography. They’re also an avid technologist focusing on risk and process management, and firmly believe that tech has a lot to learn from sex work about systemic risk.
Session
Not only is sex work real work, it’s work that overlaps heavily with the work technologists do in non-sex career paths. As a marginalized professional community, sex workers are often the first hit by new forms of risk or abuse, and have had to remain innovative through a culture of continuous education and community care. As we go through a time when many groups in the US are finding themselves increasingly marginalized and sometimes newly-criminalized, looking at the ways the same skills manifest in sex work and tech work communities can help us recontextualize our skills and seek new approaches from other industries that have more experience with these challenges.