Archive for June, 2010

Just a quick reminder: July 6th is the last day for the super early bird rate for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. If you haven’t heard of GHC before, it’s a really ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question. Okay, I’m an older geek woman (turned 39 this year) who’s done some time on helldesk, and is currently studying for a BSc in Computer Science and ...

John Scalzi’s post on the failure mode of “clever” is “asshole” seems awfully obvious given the number of really appallingly terrible pickup lines that people’ve tried to use on me as a geek woman. Just ...

This is a modified version of a post that was originally published at Restructure! In Drawings of Scientists, seventh graders draw and describe their image of scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab. BEFORE ...

jadelennox gives concrete ways that able-bodied people can fight ableism, on top of or instead of blogging about it. On that note, Anna has founded a transcripts community on Dreamwidth, for volunteers to help out ...

Let’s have a party. A better party than this party: Several bloggers got keys to the Geek Feminism front page lately: Kylie of PodBlack Cat, Steph of 天高皇企鹅远 and vegan about town and Restructure! of ...

I’ve been chewing over various things about clothing and geek feminism since our recent posts about clothing and grooming (Kylie’s, Terri’s first, Terri’s second). I still think I can’t address it satisfactorily, but I thought ...