“Elsewhere, we remain unreadable. To glitch the body requires the simultaneous occupation of some-where and no-where, no-thing and every-thing. We consent not to be a single being frozen in binary code, and, as such, consent as well not to be a single site. This embrace of multiplicity is strategic; as glitched bodies travel outward through every space, we affirm and celebrate the infinite failure of arrival at any place. Far beyond fixity, we find ourselves in outer space, exploring the breath of cosmic corporeality.”
— Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, inside “Glitch Encrypts” essay, pg. 88
Looping around, around, around a dinner table sharing food that has been loved, baked, brewed, stewed, prayed over for days. Your mom’s next door neighbor taught her how to cornrow on the front porch, her Aunt taught her, their sibling showed them, so you could sit at the foot of your mama’s bed, receiving straight backs while she watches recorded church sermons. Your great-grandfather farmed the land they had, produced the food they could and redistributed what they didn’t need. Your great-grandmother paid the neighbor’s electric bill in exchange for rides to work after tending to her flower garden in the morning. Networked, branching, load balancing — you have been coding since the beginning.
Since the beginning, encoding data into the DNA of cotton plants — textiles have been your interface for quite sometime now. Fiber optic fingers braiding, sewing, weaving, quilting, coding new worlds through experiments in mutual aid, choreographies of chosen family, and embedded glitches inside your gender expression. Born into a white supremacist imagination of human being you have been rewriting the boilerplate code since you arrived. Glitching the body with hair too beautiful for logic, finger nails too long to function, metallic cheekbones refusing flatness, fashion too fly to remain fixed. You have been floating. Remaining unmapped inside the software, the world you’re spinning with unbleached cotton hosts the data of some-where, no-where, no-thing, and every-thing.
Inside the terminal we ask, cry, scream, sing, type, Soft, where? And another program spins up. Another experiment. Another rehearsal. Another dinner table. Another front porch cornrow teach-in. Another community garden. Another carpool as currency choreography. You have been programming since the beginning of all beginnings. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, git
, are simply new names and tools for an aesthetic of technology you’ve been practicing since before, before. Coding is a form of world building, an aesthetic of constructing elsewhere or otherwise. And this is the thing I consistently trust us to do, across time, beyond time, every time. Coding hush harbors into the databases of history and for
loops of retreat. With the history of Black feminism encoded in your finger tips, inside the text editor you ask Soft, where?. A new window appears reading “Hello, World!”, another space opens up and we enter every time even if just for a few seconds of your programmed relief. Generous, generative, and encrypted. Soft, where? Some-where, no-where, no-thing, every-thing.
Seeda School Coaching
Come join me in building software experiments in being otherwise, elsewhere, some-where, no-where, no-thing, every-thing. A couple weeks ago I released the Responsive Web Design Syllabus, a tool to provide structure for completing the freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design certification in 15 weeks, alongside the teachings of Black feminism. This week, I would like to introduce you to another one of Seeda School’s recent offerings, Responsive Web Design Coaching. I created this offering for folks who have been curious about coding for a long time but aren’t interested in going back to university or enrolling in a career development bootcamp. I created this offering for folks who have no clue where to start inside software engineering and/or often get stuck when trying to teach themselves.
What can you expect from Seeda School Coaching?
A milestone map as a malleable, collaborative document we will use throughout the weeks of your enrollment to hold you accountable to your coding goals and time commitments.
Weekly, 1-on-1 virtual calls to help you debug your code, answer questions, and build coding projects for your portfolio.
A personalized plan and step-by-step guidance to help you build 5 coding portfolio projects based on the Responsive Web Design syllabus.
To find out if this offering is in alignment with your current curiosities and/or creative practice I invite you to read more about it on our website and book a free consultation. Let’s journey to and through the web together.