Bluestockings Fellowship

What it is

Every table needs someone to fill it and someone to hold it. The Bluestockings Fellowship is how we find people who want to learn to do that and teach them, so a new city doesn't have to wait on us. It's a cohort you go through, with weekly sessions, homework, and a group chat. You're not paid and you don't pay. What you get instead is real training and a genuine role in something that's growing.

It's named after the 18th-century Bluestockings, the women who'd rather be interesting than decorative and built the rooms where that was allowed. It's woman-prioritized because the meetups it feeds are badly gender-skewed, and open to all because what we're really after is temperament: curiosity, warmth, and an actual want to learn.

What you learn

There are two roles. Recruiter is the core track, the harder craft of filling a room and working out who belongs in it, mostly in person. Host is a shorter capstone, showing up each week and keeping the conversation going. Across both you pick up social skills, community building, and enough of the topics the rooms care about, AI safety and rationalism and the rest, to keep smart people talking and point the curious somewhere real.

Who it's for

Early-career and college-age people who want to build this skill, not people who already have it. You don't need to have organised anything before. If you're curious about other people and what they're working on, drawn to the idea of running a room like this, and up for growing into the nerve it takes, that's the person this is for.

The full fellowship

The fellowship has its own site, that's where the program, the story behind the name, and the application all live. The first cohort is still being put together, so for now it's an expression of interest.