Hello
👋🏻👤 I am...
Hi, I’m Oren Robinson (they/any pronouns). I live on stolen Kumeyaay land, also known as san diego, california.
🏞️👩👧👦 I am from...
My family descends from English, Jewish, Celtic, and Germanic european settlers arriving on Turtle Island in the 1600s through the early 1900s. I was raised on occupied Onondaga, Seneca and Cayuga Haudenosaunee land in so-called central new york and western new york by a joint-custody family of activists, artists and dropouts.
🎨💻 I am into...
I love making art, language, music, and mischief. I had early access to internet technology because of my family's proximity to the US military. My mom taught me to build my first website while I was in public high school, and my family also helped me to apply to college.
In college, I studied computer science, and learned much more. My fellow students challenged me to confront patriarchy and white supremacy: both the ways those systems shape things at a large scale, as well as in my own relationships.
During my time in college, I took courses and worked in mainland China for 2 years, immersed in other languages as a white US citizen in Shanghai, rural Sichuan, and Beijing.
🌎🌕 I am up to...
For the past 15 years, I've gotten to play a part in software, graphics and communications projects to address violence and support care work in grassroots community efforts, co-ops, open source teams, nonprofits, political campaigns, mutual aid networks, etc.
I am currently program coordinator at Project on Youth and Non-military Opportunities (Project YANO).
💖✨ I am for...
I envision a just transition into worlds with no borders, with land back, with care not cages, abolition of prisons and policing, free Falasteen/Palestine, reparations, healing for survivors, and an end to violence, patriarchy, capitalism and all systems of oppression.