Hack is a poor choice of a word for the pre-ops.
Via Campus Reform:
The City University of New York (CUNY) will play host to an all-day feminist “hack” event geared towards “cis and trans women” this April.
The inaugural FemSTEM Hack Day aims to feature roughly two dozen hands-on workshops related to STEM and hacking, according to a call for workshop facilitators that was emailed to all professors in the CUNY system.
“While this event is intended to be women-centric, male allies are welcome as participants and facilitators,” the email indicates. “However, we ask that you particularly encourage women and genderqueer students and colleagues to participate.”
Victoria DiTomasso, a senior at Hunter College, is spearheading the event with the help of CUNY Professors Kelle Cruz and Anna Pinkas. “Our vision for this event is to provide a welcoming and supportive environment to cis and trans women undergraduates from Hunter and BMCC [Borough of Manhattan Community College] who have never participated in a hack event before,” they wrote.
Unlike similar “hack” events hosted at other colleges, the organizers of FemSTEM Hack Day do not appear to have any intention of teach actual hacking skills. Instead, they aim to host workshops on issues such as 3D printing, virtual reality software, and video editing.
These workshops will all be in service of inspiring “participants to further their tech training and recruit them to Computer Science classes and tech-related program,” the organizers note in their recruitment email, a copy which was provided to Campus Reform.