LIVIA WEIGEL

What I’m doing now

I’m studying sociology in Chemnitz, where I’m working on my bachelor’s thesis about women’s & genderqueer1 experiences in hacker spaces. Academically, I’m currently looking into AI2, especially LLM’s3, exploring their limits and societal risks. I’m also interested in gender aspects in technology use/appropriation and the societal impacts of climate change.

Learning new skills is basically a hobby of mine, currently I’m looking into bash scripting. I enjoy learning & exchange on conferences, and recently started speaking on them.

Open to work

About to start a temporary position at ATB Chemnitz. Still doing creative work as a side hustle: graphic design, website development (with WordPress), social media content creation4 and photography. If you are interested, please get in touch!

From January 2026 and onwards im again looking for a Job5 in Chemnitz or remote, 5-10h/week. Preferably a permanent position this time.

Recent reads

I love to read. These are some books and papers I am reading (or read recently) and deem worthwhile sharing.

Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures

Christina Dunbar-Hester

Gekränkte Freiheit: Aspekte des libertären Autoritarismus

Carolin Amlinger & Oliver Nachtwey

The Straight Mind and Other Essays

Monique Wittig

Stoffwechselpolitik: Arbeit, Natur und die Zukunft des Planeten

Simon Schaup

Finished

Stone Butch Blues

Leslie Feinberg

Views

Marc-Uwe Kling

Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-How.

Cynthia Cockburn

Gott Hassen

Jenny Hval

Untersuchung von per- und polyfluorierten Alkylsubstanzen (PFAS) im Meeresschaum an Nord- und Ostsee-Stränden in Deutschland

Julios Kontchou

Die feinen Unterschiede: Kritik der gesellschaftlichen Urteilskraft

Pierre Bourdieu

Footnotes

  1. Specifically FLINTA, meaning Female, Lesbian, Inter, Non-Binary, Trans and Agender folks. This acronym is pretty uncommon outside of Germany. ↩︎
  2. Algorithmic intelligence. Some say “artificial intelligence”, but that disregards that the techniques used differ very much from what we consider intelligent ↩︎
  3. LLM = large language model; Like chatGPT and Deepseek ↩︎
  4. specifically NO moderation ↩︎
  5. I have 6+ years experience in communication, design and marketing. Exceptional expertise in data protection and highly skilled jack of all trades. Organiser / Crew member for events ranging from 300 to 100.000 attendees respectively. If that sounds like someone you’re looking for, let’s connect! ↩︎