Cache Me Outside: Digital Defense + Zine Making Workshop

Sat, Aug 2 2025
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Central Library, Info Commons Lab

internet safety techknowledge zine making

Cache Me Outside is a digital defense circle designed for community organizers, care workers, educators, and anyone navigating hypersurveillance. This space challenges the mainstream cybersecurity narrative that confines digital protection discourse to the lens of corporate asset management. It aims to instead empower attendees to use technology and privacy knowledge to serve collective liberation and the protection of our most vulnerable community members from surveillance, exploitation, and monetization.

Join us for an afternoon for community-building, skill sharing, and creating tangible tools for community care including:

  • Demystifying privacy settings, encryption, MFA, VPNs, and security culture
  • Learning what steps you might need to take to protect yourself based on what you do and who you are
  • Creating tangible artifacts from what we learned from each other including zines and Know Your Rights cards

Attendees are encouraged to bring their phone to follow steps to secure personal devices. 

Imani Thompson is a tech ethicist who brings a disruptive perspective to data privacy and tech policy. With a mission to challenge the tech industry’s status quo, she’s carved out a unique path working across medical software development, legal engineering, tech policy, reproductive justice, and educational administration. Her expertise spans the intersection of bioethics, cybersecurity, and social justice, with an intention to make data protection literacy and tools accessible through a community-centered, and collective care framework.

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