Archive for August, 2009

Margaret Atwood doesn’t think she writes science fiction. Ursula K Le Guin would like to disagree. (A review of “Year of the Flood”.) sarahtales takes on Uhura, Harriet Potter, and Jo from Little Women and ...

Dale Chase sings a beautiful geeky ballad to his Coder Girl. Wow, it’s my new favorite song! Did she just tell him to sudo make her a sandwich?! I think so! I’ll put it like ...

We talk a lot about computer programming, science fiction, gaming, and the like here, but I know that many of us have other geeky interests. So, two questions for you all! What is your secret, ...

I can’t remember how I found this post (probably looking at linkbacks from FeministSF), but I’m so glad I did. It breaks down the number of women who’ve directed episodes of Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: ...

As this is my first post, I’ll offer an introduction before I begin. Hi there, I’m Tempest, and am indeed a geek. A rare unicorn of a geek since I am not only a woman, ...

Tonight’s PTA meeting rocked my socks off. My daughter’s school is a poor school – 67% of our students qualify for free and reduced price lunches – in an urban district in a bankrupt state. ...

There’s an argument that comes up a lot in (geek) feminism discussions: This isn’t a problem with $community, it’s a problem with society This is used to explain everything from distasteful jokes to someone’s inability ...

Unicorn check-in time for women in open source! Bruce Perens seems to think that women aren’t passionate about open source software: What I meant was that there are more women who hold technical jobs than ...

My friend @orenmazor tweeted this: way to increase visibility for the girl geek dinner by challenging the male geeks to figure out a way in http://is.gd/2Cc3F The guy in question (Will Armstrong) first talks about ...

As I mentioned in the link roundup, the LWN thread on the Free Software Foundation’s women in Free Software mini-summit will burn your sanity points. But there’s an interesting comment thread involving Matthew Garrett (mjg59) ...

The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on women in Free Software on September 19. Seth Schoen notes that “I guess the venue and timing could be a challenge for some people (it doesn’t ...

Advocates for women in open source burn out a lot. Here’s an idea to keep us going longer.

I’m in Buenos Aires this week for Wikimania, the annual conference for the Wikimedia community. Also in town: Richard Stallman. Today he gave a public talk at the Teatro Presidente Alvear about Free Software, and ...

Our first actual guest post! Melissa Draper may well have been the first woman on the planet, well, Planet Ubuntu. She is a web developer by trade, and has more F/LOSS hats than she cares ...

Successful women often suffer from impostor syndrome. As wiredferret succinctly explains, Imposter Syndrome is the pervasive feeling that whatever success or acclaim you might have, it’s all a cosmic accident, and other people really are ...

From Indie Craft Gossip I heard about a huge pattern archive with pictures and data on sewing patterns from the U.S. dating back to 1860. There aren’t any instructions for sewing, but the pictures and ...