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Jack smiles at the camera, wearing a cap and glasses, seated next to Lake Merritt in Oakland I'm Jack Aponte, a Black Boricua genderqueer butch living in Oakland, CA. Before this I lived in Brooklyn for 11 years and Jersey before that. My pronouns are they and them. I'm a worker-owner at Palante Technology Cooperative and am on sabbatical from August through December 2020. In a few places online (especially Backdrop and Drupal communities) I use the handle jackalope.

This is my personal site and blog. The 2012 Allied Media Conference put too many ideas in my head and they needed to go someplace, so I started jackalop.es on the flight home.

You can also find me writing online on Truthout, Twitter and the Palante Tech blog. My last personal blog was AngryBrownButch, I was once a contributor at Feministe, and a long, long time ago I blogged at Surblimity.

From the blog

The centre cannot hold: on diversity and inclusion in tech

Does the language of diversity and inclusion in tech serve us?

In her autobiography, Assata Shakur warns of the slippery nature of "liberal," both the word and the political concept.

You see what I don't

Lunch time, and nothing at all sounded appealing. It had been a rough morning, and I was looking for comfort. I headed out, bee-lining for an overpriced garlic miso fried chicken rice bowl and a bottle of Mexican Coke. In my adulthood I've realized that comfort food sometimes doesn't so much mean food that is comforting as it means food that is so delicious that even when your emotions have decimated your appetite, you can still eat it.

A conversation with THEESatisfaction about their MWMF and AMC performances

On May 28 I started a conversation on Twitter with THEESatisfaction, musicians of whom I've been a fan for a bit, about their upcoming performance at the Allied Media Conference, which I've been deeply involved in since I first attended in 2011.

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