5. Mel Chua “It’s Almost As If I Could Only Enter the
Makerspace as the Janitor”:
The environments where I was trying to ‘learn about
the geeky stuff’ were sociotechnically broken in a
way that made it hard for me (a disabled minority
woman, among other things) to join in. If I even
wanted to start being a part of the community, I had
to start by fixing the technical community.
6. Mel Chua “It’s Almost As If I Could Only Enter the
Makerspace as the Janitor”:
If my teenage self had had her way, I would have
never gone into community work… I’d be a kernel
hacker or an embedded geek.