Archive for August, 2009

The F-Word blog reviews She Should Have Gone To the Moon, a documentary about Jerri Truhill, one of 13 women who trained to go into orbit in the early years of the US’ space programme. ...

One of my formative geek experiences was watching Star Trek with my Dad, so when the reboot came out this summer I watched it with a huge mob of friends and a childlike glee. That ...

Since The Guild’s released their new music video, Do You Wanna Date My Avatar, I’ve had the song stuck in my head. My sister and I had this amusing conversation about what, as feminists, we ...

Barcelona‘s song “C-64″ is a perfect love song to teenage computing in the 80s. I had such a crush on my Commodore! I’ve got 64k memory I’ve got cartridge boards on ebony I’ve got power ...

Skud and others were playing around with Translation Party on Twitter over the last few days. I tried it with feminist quotes. Can you guess which quote from this page turned into this? As with ...

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Where are all the men bloggers? thread, and a big “Welcome” to those who are new here. I’ve just shut down comments on that thread because a) the ...

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft writes On trust and diversity, some excerpts follow: I have , otoh, experienced that sense of mistrust – not about males -but more often about women, and mostly, female neurotypicals ... What ...

Borrowing both the term “quick hit” (ie, short post) and a thought from Lauredhel of Hoyden About Town: I’m a bit bogged-down in contemplating the oft-recurring trope – accepted in so many places as a ...

When I look around my Google Reader feeds, I see so many insightful, intelligent political and technical blogs by women, but hardly any by men. For instance, I read Shakesville every day for US and ...

This is a remix of a post by the same name I made after running a BOF on attracting women to open source. One of the most interesting suggestions I’ve heard on how to get ...

Several of the front page posters here are participating in discussions on the Python diversity email list, a list created by Python community member Aahz to discuss diversity problems in the Python programming language community. ...

A comment over on the Geek Feminism wiki asked whether we aren’t damaging the community by documenting sexism. I don’t want to get too 101 on our fine blog, but I do want to talk ...

I’m off-white, so I’m used to people assuming rather strange things about me. The big one I am forever explaining is that no, I really am Canadian. Yes, that’s where I’m really from. That’s where ...

The only thing better than being a comic-book-slash-Shakespeare-geek who owns the Cartoon Shakespeare series is being a comic-book-slash-Shakespeare-geek-mother whose 6yo daughter reads said series and then asks to be taken to Shakespeare in the park. ...

Via BJ Wishinsky (@anitaborg_org), via Gerald Thurman (@nanofoo), a post from the CACM blog, Only the developed world lacks women in computing, by Mark Guzdial. Mark talks about a study that shows that in Malaysia, ...

In cereta’s words, “Oh yes, I’m going there.” Trigger warning. After George Sodini went on a misogynist shooting spree, killing three women, a lot of people were making comparisons to the Virginia Tech or Columbine ...