A linkspam in every home (23rd December, 2009)
- 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 STEM fields).
- The Border House is a blog about diversity in gaming. They are actively seeking additional writers. Their post on internalised sexism comes recommended from our comments.
- Penny Red has the latest Feminist Carnival up. These are coming out every two weeks, submit feminist posts for consideration for future carnivals.
- Older women want tech toys for Christmas: a Logitech survery found that women over 50 want tech for Christmas. (Not that Logitech doesn’t have a dog in that fight…)
- A Special Issue of Interacting with Computers (Feminism and HCI): For our academic folk: a CFP, with abstracts required by February 28 2010 and full papers by June 1. “… Specifically, we are concerned with the design and evaluation of interactive systems that are imbued with sensitivity to the central commitments of feminism…”
- female programmers and programmers to be: Jeanne Boyarsky responds to some of Kathy Sierra’s twitters on, among other things, whether women speaking at conferences has any influence on the career choices of teenage girls.
- Professor of psychology David Anderegg thinks that given the negative stereotypes prevalent in most communities, it’s time to consign the words ‘nerd’ and ‘geek’ to the bin.
If you have links of interest, please share them in comments here, or if you’re a delicious user, tag them “geekfeminism” to bring them to our attention. Please note that we tend to stick to publishing recent links (from the last month or so).
Thanks to everyone who suggested links in comments and on delicious.
Thanks so much for the shout-out, Mary =)
Logitech may have self-interest in the issue, but it jives with my experiences. My mother in law (~62)s wish for christmas ? A usb-stick with more storage than her current 8GB one which is getting overfull with pics of grandchildren, videos downloaded from youtube, music and a metric ton of Gutenberg-books.
Seconded. My mother (60+) wants an ipod for Christmas.
My mom (50+) is getting an iPod for Christmas, because she wants it.
David Anderegg is just wrong and outdated. Maybe the terms “geek” and “nerd” had negative connotations like 5 years ago, but I find that many people self-identify as geeks now, with the rise of social technology. (Of course, I was geek since it was unpopular to be one.)
Thank you for the link! We’d love to see people who frequent GF also joining and posting over at Stemming. :)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/28/listen-up-little-lad.html