Penelope Gwen

Software development & Sociology


About

I'm Penelope (it/its/she/her), a queer sociologist, sysadmin, archivist, and rat mom.

Projects

Pogmom Suite

A collection of multimedia content delivery and productivity software which serves as an ongoing archivism and decentralization project.

Software

Most of my software can be found at my Gitea, or at its mirror on my Github.

Spreadsheets

Financial Tracker

Cookie Recipe

Truth Table

Financial Splitter

Essays

Archives, Feudalism, and Digital Literacy

My undergraduate thesis, informed by my Sociological and Information Technologies backgrounds

Simmel's Conflict and Liberation

Written for a university sociological theory class. Explores liberatory and assimilationist politics through the lens of Georg Simmel's concept of conflict

Weber: Beauracracy and Capital

Written for a university sociological theory class. An exploration and synthesis of Max Weber's Bureaucracy and Karl Marx's Capital in a modern lens in the context of automation

Durkheim and Gender Minorities

Written for a university sociological theory class. Explores Emile Durkheim's concepts of egoism and anomy and how they distinctly effect those belonging to gender minority groups