Archive for March, 2010

Sexism at Work: Young Women, NEWSWEEK and Gender: NEWSWEEK was the subject of a gender-discrimination case in 1970. Young women currently working at NEWSWEEK reflect on the case and the current state of the battle. ...

Thanks for your Ask a Geek Feminist questions. There are many many questions left, and selected questions will be appearing twice a week for quite a while for our commenters to have input into. Here’s ...

The ch!cktionary brings us The Five Types Of Haters Female Bloggers Encounter (And What To Do About Them) (warning: anti-women and other hateful comments are quoted extensively in the post) Is your geekdom more fundamental ...

The James Tiptree, Jr. award is a yearly “prize for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender.” The award council has just announced that the winners, for work published in ...

You’re probably all familiar with the inverse law of fantasy armour for women: the less the armour covers, the more it somehow miraculously protects. Liz Walsh writes and draws the entertaining web comic Tao of ...

Author Info: Quixotess is a geek of wordplay, numberplay, names, history, easy logic puzzles, IRC, various works of fiction (particularly speculative fiction), certain aspects of theatre, and local geology. Not computers, though. She blogs at ...

This is a guest post by Jonathan Lavallee. Jonathan spends his days toiling about with batch processes and overnight jobs, but in his other life he’s a game designer and a poet who is constantly ...

This question came from the Ask a Geek Feminist post, which is still taking your questions. How do you determine if a person has been invited to participate (conference speaker, lead a workshop, blog, etc.) ...

It’s 11:18pm in my timezone as I write this and I’m reflecting on International Women’s Day. I feel kind of anxious and twitchy and unhappy, and I’m trying to unpick why. This morning one of ...

Role Playing Girl Zine, a yearly publication about women in gaming, is seeking “submissions of essays by women gamers, designers, researchers and others interested in role playing games.” Cartoons also welcome. The 2010 theme: “International ...

I missed this when it was posted, but thought it was worth a quick hit. halfamoon is a celebration of women in fandom that occurs every February. This year, among the posts celebrating women characters, ...

International Women’s Day is March 8th. If your geek group is doing anything for IWD, let us know in this thread, particularly if it’s online and open to participants around the world. (If it’s a ...

Musical geek feminists out there may enjoy this awesome stereotype subversion: Ruth Flowers is rocking the French party scene with her DJ skills after a birthday disco for her grandson gave the 69-year-old a taste ...

Lifehacker introduces MacGyver of the Day: Electronics Hacker Jeri Ellsworth: “chip maker, race car builder, pin ball machine maker, blowing-stuff-up’er…” David Barnes is keen to remind us of the fabulous stuff Kathy Sierra wrote for ...

This is an experiment: if it goes well I will run it as an irregular feature. “Ask a Geek Feminist” is now taking questions! How it works: if you’ve got a question you think a ...

Via yvi, who points out problems with the Pirate Party’s stance on gender equality. Sources are in German, but she writes: Basic summary: “We don’t need to talk about gender equality in our party because ...