Archive for April, 2010

Just a quick note on the Ask a Geek Feminist series, since people are asking. We’re nearly done with the first round: there’s just one more question I want to try and answer myself. The ...

I’m not really in to SciFi or Fantasy fandom like some of my c0-bloggers; the ones that are though are really quite busy at the moment. This will hence be brief because I don’t know ...

From the casual stereotyping department comes Puzzlebots. First off, I want to make it clear that this particular game is not unique in this regard at all. It’s just a convenient example that I came ...

Last year I got some buttons made, and they were a hoot: In anticipation of WisCon, I’m making a bunch more geekfeminism.org buttons.  So far I have: Code is a feminist issue (from this comment) ...

Jacinta Reid is a solo mother to three awesome daughters. She is also a sci-fi enthusiast, multi-blogger, re-enactor, open source acolyte, pedant, illustrator, and impending IT professional. Jacinta is about to complete a bachelors degree ...

GenCon has some programing for non-gamers who might be attending the con with their spouse. Sounds like a good idea, for those who want to travel together but don’t all want to attend the con. ...

In an older post I just came across over at The Sexist, there’s a great discussion about the idea of “having a thick skin” in the context of male-dominated workplaces as well as street harassment.  ...

Check out, and contribute to, Flickr’s Women in Tech group, photos of women in technology speaking at conferences or doing techy things. (Also check out The New Feminine for a little subversion of what “feminine” ...

AKA How I’m choosing my volunteer time more carefully This was written for my personal blog but I’ve posed some questions specifically for GF readers below I saw Hilary Mason’s post, "Stop talking, start coding" ...

This week’s Open Thread is hosted by an adorable LED heart: There’s a video as well, and you get one for yourself or someone you love in a kit! I’m getting into podcasts now that ...

Over at Tiger Beatdown, Sady and Amanda take on rock and roll, relating the sexism in rock subcultures to other subcultures and “outsider” groups: AMANDA: I see the same sad sexism in a lot of ...

A couple of weeks ago NPR Ombudsman (ha) Alicia Shepard became a hero of mine when she ripped her own institution a new one for its lopsided representation of women’s points of view. NPR’s On ...

I’m having a great time at DrupalConSF! A question for the NodeOne folks passing out Drupal: The Card Game… Which one of these people is the “non-geek”?

Another one bubbling up from our linkspamming hive mind: criticism of “Mary Sue” policing. Mary Sue is a fandom term for a character who is judged to be authorial self-insert and wish fulfilment, prototypically a ...

The Ubuntu Women team ran a competition a few months ago to gather stories documenting how women adopted the Ubuntu distribution as their computer operating system of choice. Based on the success of that competition, they ...

Scholarships and grants: The GNOME Foundation have opened applications for travel grants to their GUADEC conference. Applications close April 27, 2009, 19:00 UTC (not mentioned on that page) The ESA is offering scholarships for women ...