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 ...

Some comments on both Kylie’s post and Terri’s latest post suggest that this blog should really is overdue to host discussions on geek women who are oppressed or trapped by or feeling policed about issues ...

Open World Forum 2010 (Sep 30 to Oct 1, Paris) is having a Diversity Summit: Why women matter? relating to women in Free/Open Source Software. There’s an associated poll to gather data about women in ...

This question isn’t exactly part of the ask a geek feminist series, but it did appear in the comment thread for the ask a geek feminist question about how to dress, which I re-addressed from ...

Whenever I go through the linkspam, there’s often a news item that becomes a linkswarm of sorts. This time it’s the game (note: violent imagery at link, although hardly extraordinary by game standards) Hey Baby ...

Terri’s post on grooming has a few stories of women whose bosses or mentors have genuinely believed that they were aiming for management or secretarial roles rather than where they were really headed. Deborah: Eventually ...

I’ve got a pile of discarded books in my living room intended for a project, and tonight a few of us were flipping through the books for passages of note. I came across a quote ...

Today’s xkcd comic strip, Phobia, passes the Bechdel Test. Contains two women Having a conversation About something other than a man Last time this happened, as far as I can tell, was over 400 comics ...

tigtog highlights editorials and articles in Nature questioning sex bias in medical testing, particularly the exclusion of pregnant subjects. harpers_child is angry: Batman fans asked DC Comics for a in-comic memorial for Stephanie Brown, a ...

Over at Livejournal, angelbob is gathering anecdata: A friend recently said… that as a woman working in technology, she wouldn’t recommend that other women enter the field. She’s a system administrator… I’m not going to ...