Dr. Kit Stubbs
Dr. Kit Stubbs is a non-binary/queer/femme maker & entrepreneur who's more interested in people than in tech. After earning their Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, Kit is now the Founder and Executive Director of the Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity (effing.org), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to normalize conversations about sex. Since 2017, the Effing Foundation has awarded over $100,000 in grants to sex-positive artists and educators across the US. After Kit's light-up dildo prototype "The Hammer" was named the #1 Geekiest Sex Toy by Cracked.com, Kit started speaking on gender, sexuality and sex/tech at events across the US including Arisia, Burning Man, Dark Odyssey: Winter Fire, Harvard Sex Week, Hackers On Planet Earth, the Fetish Fair Fleamarket, and WisCon. Kit blogs about technological empowerment for sexuality & pleasure (toymakerproject.com) and co-organizes teasecraft, a meetup group for sex/kink-positive makers and hackers (teasecraft.com).
