Archive for December, 2009

Thanks to the magic of timezones, I’m one of those people who can look back at many of you from here in 2010. Did you know it’s been nine years since we attempted that fateful ...

Sarah Mei just tweeted: Whenever anyone asks why there aren’t more female developers at startups, I’m going to send them this job post. http://bit.ly/6Lsr1F The link goes to this job ad for Mahalo: If you’re ...

This is a guest post from Annina Rust, one of the developers of Be Counted. She is an Assistant Professor of Computer Art in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University. Mary asked me to ...

There’s a couple of interesting new blogs in and around the geek feminist space: Stemming is a new online community and collaborative blog supporting women and girls interested in science, tech, engineering, and math (the ...

This is my first post on GF. I’m new to the idea of feminism and still have a hard time identifying with – even thinking about! – the subject, and sometimes envy the ease with ...

How the Geek Stereotype Stunts Computer Science: Lisa Grossman, writer of "Of Geeks and Girls", responds to some Hacker News comments: “The entrance fee to a computer science career is membership in geek culture, and ...

We’re a bit late with the link, but the latest Feminist Carnival went up at Undomestic Goddess on December 9. Submissions are open for the next carnival, out December 23. Training bar staff to intervene ...

First up, the return of fannish scammer formerly known as Victoria Bitter, most recently appearing on LiveJournal as thanfiction. If you’re familiar with the back-story, you’ll know that the person in question has been identifying ...

Does anyone know if a new carnival owner was found for the Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans? There was a call for help up at Free to Good Home: The Carnival of ...

If you love scifi and fantasy, especially works that “assert one’s right to be in the world, even if one is not One Standard Unit Straight White Man”, consider recommending your favorite recent works for ...

I was surfing around on Vagina Dentata which I stumble across periodically (most recently in our last linkspam) but have not quite got to feed-reader-adding yet. This is poor form I admit — I’ll go right off ...

Margarita Manterola of the Debian project writes about Software Libre, Pasión de Mujeres, a free software event in Argentina where all of the speakers will be women We are all pretty WEIRD: noting that most ...

A friend of GF just Bcc’d me on this email, which was sent to the CEOs of Motorola and Verizon along with a number of other senior executives of those companies. To: “greg.brown” <greg.brown@motorola.com>, “jonathan.ruff” ...

This post was originally written for my local Women in Science and Engineering chapter’s blog. I’m afraid it’s not my best writing, as I found the experience somewhat upsetting, but I think the day we ...

The Anita Borg institute is one of my favourite organisations out there for women in the tech field. Among their many activities, they have an annual award for Women of Vision, who have made a ...

Something to contribute to: Be counted! A survey of the gender distribution at tech events: annina an9, Persephone Miel, Hanna Wallach and Karen Brennan have launched a site to collect data on gender diversity at ...