Archive for November, 2009

Mary just excluded a Twilight critique from a recent linkspam because, quote, “if we start linking to that we’ll never stop”. She has a point. And yet, there is a lot of interesting geeky feminist ...

Anna’s What a crock post about Gamestop’s instructional training videos for how to treat female customers is worth a look Wired published an article critical of the anti-vaccination movement. Skepchick (trigger warning for quoted misogynist ...

Valerie Aurora liked Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever’s book Women Don’t Ask so much that for a number of years she ran the Valerie Aurora Women in Computing Book Scholarship, buying or contributing towards women’s ...

In certain communities (I’m looking at you, open source), it’s common to describe the way the community functions as a “meritocracy”. The idea is that the community is led by those who demonstrate ability and ...

Matt Zimmerman asks Who’s afraid of Ubuntu Women? Issue 17 of the GNOME Journal is available, the first with a unified theme: “Women in Open Source”. All articles were contributed by women. (Journal issues don’t ...

Karen Healey reviews Sarah Kuhn’s One Con Glory, a feminist geek girl novella featuring con hijinks including “delightful drunkenness, morning-after amnesia, Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, the beginnings of dealing with some inner demons, and ...

I teach first year computer game development at my university, and one of the questions we sometimes use as a way to start some discussion within class is, “What is the difference between hardcore and ...

FoolishOwl commented: I looked at Gail Carmichael’s blog post, “Quick Thoughts on Pregnancy and Grad School,” and was immediately struck by how the women commenting on it were in general agreement, based on careful thought ...

Lyz Krumbach writes “Issues of Women in Open Source” for Ubuntu Open Week, and “Why?” to answer the question of whether and how women’s groups help. A great article about 5th grade girls visiting Yahoo! ...

Elizabeth Krumbach is a long time linux user and contributer who was elected to the Ubuntu Community Council last month. (Congrats Lyz!) These are some of her thoughts on the question, “Why are you involved ...

Since the “EMACS virgins” joke incident and resulting discussion was a major point in this year’s discussions about women in Free/Libre/Open Source Software (it became major, I think, mostly due to timing; since it was ...

Dr. Susan Niebur has kindly posted a preprint of her published article on the underrepresentation of female planetary scientists in NASA mission teams (which a commenter submitted as a linkspam candidate earlier). Deborah discusses models ...

I was interviewed about open source hardware on Amber Mac‘s WebNation last week, and wanted to share the video.  Sadly I can’t embed it, but here it is: http://www.discoverychannel.ca/Showpage.aspx?sid=20743 I’d love to hear what kinda ...

Yesterday the EFF reported on a “secret” subpoena served by the U.S. government on Kristina Clair, the sysadmin for the independent news site indymedia.us. The subpoena demanded information on all IP traffic for the site. ...

Keiko Fukuda is a judo teacher in San Francisco who recently attained a high rank in the art, the 9th dan. In the documentary she explains how for 30 years she was kept at an ...

Melissa Draper is a manager, a web geek, an Ubuntu contributor and Pad Thai addict. She was our first guest poster, and is now a recidivist offender. As a woman involved with several projects that ...