Archive for April, 2010

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 ...