Archive for May, 2010

Both rounds of “Ask a Geek Feminist” so far have contained some variant of “why are there so few women in computer science or software development, should we fix this, and how should we fix ...

Welcome to round 2 of Ask a Geek Feminist! How it works: if you’ve got a question you think a geek feminist could answer, post a comment in reply to this post. (Comments will not ...

Valerie Aurora responds to Holla Back concerns: On the one hand, this is great news! If people are afraid of being falsely accused of street harassment, then they think it’s a bad thing. This certainly ...

We had a series of posts a few weeks ago about Facebook’s failings in the realm of user privacy. Our posts (and your trackbacks and retweets) were but a few in a sea of outspoken ...

Spoiler warning: the last part of this spam spoils a scene in a very recent Doctor Who. There thus might be spoilers in our comments too. Two-wheel triumph: Armed with a netbook, medical supplies and ...

Code like a girl by xeeliz. by xeeliz. Many geeky women are pretty excited about the two “heroine” T’s that Thinkgeek is offering: Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie are currently featured. I’m a big fan ...

When I sold my car and started walking and using public transit, I discovered a whole new wonderful world of sexual harassment. In general, I can’t travel more than a mile without at least one ...

Ragni blogs about writing, coding and beautiful text(s) over at typotendency.net and is moderating a panel of awesome geek feminists at a conference, SIGINT, in Cologne in Germany this weekend. Five feminist geeks are teaming up ...

Hollaback, the websites for fighting back against street harassment, are raising money for an iPhone app allowing posting of harassment events and harassers’ images. Find out more and donate at ihollaback.org. (Via Valerie Aurora.) They ...

Remember the Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition that I posted about a while ago? The entries have now closed and voting has opened. If you need some inspiration to vote: If you’re wondering what ...

Lightgetsin rants in The one where I shout about able-bodied technology privilege for a while: Also, the next person to tell me to get a Kindle . . . really shouldn’t. The Kindle occasionally reads ...

Mark Pilgrim’s post Tinkerer’s Sunset laments the increasing tendency of Apple devices to be locked for development unless you have a Mac, XCode, an iPhone simulator, and $99 for an auto-expiring developer certificate. He goes ...

As Mary stated in response to my last post, flouncing on Facebook isn’t necessarily an ideal option for some of us as much as we may wish to. If you choose to stay with Facebook ...

jon asked in comments: I wonder, what would a feminist- and womanist-oriented social network look like? (We might have readers unfamiliar with the term “womanist”, if so, see Renee Martin’s I’m not a feminist (and ...

The title sort of says it all: Scholarship applications for attending the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing this year are due on Friday, May 14th, 2010. If you’re not familiar with GHC, you ...

Inspired by Kate, Karen, and Denise, and as a sort of Unicorn Chaser to the last post about Facebook’s failings and flailings, let’s talk about awesome things we’ve done recently!  They don’t need to be ...