Archive for March, 2010

A friend of mine pointed out this post about the decline of hackerspaces: The biggest enemy of hackerspaces and techshops is probably girlfriends and wives. My reaction was: “Wait… what? Did they really just…? Uhhh…” ...

My six week old son has just rolled up his first D&D character, charisma stat 20: Just kidding. I’m actually pretty wary of identifying children of geeks as geeks themselves. They’ll tell us what they ...

Everyone knows Hollywood isn’t so good at depicting women, especially in blockbuster films. This is why we have the Bechdel test. But while I’ve seen a lot of good articles on the subject, Why Strong ...

This thread is open for geek feminist introductions, speculations, reminiscences and chatter. Please see our commenting policy guidelines. Conversational seed, in case you need one: in my recent sewing, software packaging, and lantern-making crafty/make-y/learn-y binge, ...