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Archive for December, 2009

2009.12.31   Open thread: hello from the future   (4)

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 ...

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2009.12.26   Wanted: aggressive people with no lives   (28)

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 ...

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2009.12.23   Be counted   (1)

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 ...

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2009.12.22   A linkspam in every home (23rd December, 2009)   (7)

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 ...

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2009.12.21   The heroine with… what are her thousand faces?   (6)

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 ...

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2009.12.17   Our degenerate modern linkspamming society (18th December, 2009)   (8)

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 ...

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2009.12.16   Linkspam wears women’s underpants (16th December, 2009)   (6)

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 ...

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