By Alexandra Garretón, Mission Local
Even anarchists need rules — that’s at least what the 6-year-old anarchist hackerspace Noisebridge, in the Mission, discovered this year after fielding complaints from women like Hannah Grimm.
Grimm’s experience at the space over the last year, documented in a September Google Plus post, included being called the “c-word,” having her ass spanked and being told she was going to be made a bride.
“It has become abundantly clear to most women in the space that ‘Be Excellent’ has failed us,” Grimm wrote in the post, in reference to Noisebridge’s guiding motto.
The coed members of Noisebridge, a collective workspace, agreed. In late September, it became one of more than 100 hackerspaces, tech conferences and meetups since 2010 to impose an anti-harassment policy from the Ada Initiative, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that supports women in tech. The idea is “no jerks welcome.”
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