# identity crisis (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover identity crisis. Page: Feed: --- ## [north star](https://savanaogburn.substack.com/p/north-star) _2026-06-28 · Savana Ogburn · Savana Ogburn_ 10 years of drag photos ## [Open Source Governance Needs Private Spaces](https://sarahnovotny.com/2026/04/14/open-source-governance-needs-private-spaces/) _2026-04-14 · sarahnovotny · hi, i’m sarah_ I’ve been an open source champion for a long time. I believe in transparency. I believe in public process. I believe that bringing more people into the room and making the process visible produces better outcomes. And I’ve watched communities I love burn through their best contributors because they couldn’t figure out when not to \[…\] ## [the devil doesn't need an advocate](https://savanaogburn.substack.com/p/the-devil-doesnt-need-an-advocate) _2026-04-11 · Savana Ogburn · Savana Ogburn_ In college I took a great class called The Fabricated Image, taught by Suellen Parker Shockley. The only rule for the projects we turned in was that there had to be a photograph in them, somehow. I made all kinds of crazy stuff in that class—pillows printed with photos of a drag queen’s leg, my first pop up dioramas, and heavily annotated journal entries detailing how I made a piece of work. ## [identity crisis #6](https://savanaogburn.substack.com/p/identity-crisis-6) _2026-03-15 · Savana Ogburn · Savana Ogburn_ I shot this self portrait in 2017 in my parents’ house as part of my series Identity Crisis. I had my aunt’s quintessential 80s dress (which I loved despite the fact that it was too small to zip), a poorly styled wig, some aluminum cans, and a pageant queen dream. And a little Scotch tape for my nose! ## [identity crisis redux](https://savanaogburn.substack.com/p/identity-crisis-redux) _2026-02-01 · Savana Ogburn · Savana Ogburn_ trusting my freaky impulses ## [Trust is the ultimate currency](https://sarahnovotny.com/2025/03/05/trust-is-the-ultimate-currency/) _2025-03-05 · sarahnovotny · hi, i’m sarah_ This was an invited talk, given today, at the Talent Arena at Mobile World Congress. I’m going to make an argument that humans are not built to live and work the way we do today. We have not evolved far enough to comfortably exist in our modern context. There is a whole lot of information \[…\] ## [The XZ Backdoor and Beyond: A Call for Enterprise Investment in Open-Source](https://sarahnovotny.com/2024/09/02/the-xz-backdoor-and-beyond-a-call-for-enterprise-investment-in-open-source/) _2024-09-02 · sarahnovotny · hi, i’m sarah_ The XZ Backdoor and Beyond: A Call for Enterprise Investment in Open-Source “The task of assessing the trustworthiness of open-source (OSS) that is in use, or that is being considered for use, is more complex for OSS than for proprietary software, because there is, generally speaking, no direct relationship between the authors of software and \[…\]