Archive for July, 2010

This post was originally published at Restructure! Often, computer geeks who started programming at a young age brag about it, as it is a source of geeky prestige. However, most computer geeks are oblivious to ...

My Fault, I’m Female is collecting short personal stories of experiences of sexism. The Westboro Baptist Church (famously and aggressively homophobic) protested at Comic-Con for “worship of false idols”. Comics Alliance reports on the cosplay ...

In one of my posts, thewhatifgirl said: I’ve always wanted to take up embroidery (I impulse buy anything embroidered anyway, might as well learn to do it myself!) but always been repulsed by the subject ...

This is cross-posted at Restructure! In the futuristic city of Metropolis, Cindi Mayweather, a.k.a. Android # 57821, falls in love with a human named Anthony Greendown. As a result, the Star Commission schedules for her ...

The Sims Just Did This Totally Racist Thing: In the newest town, there is a black family with a single mom of two sons who has worked her way up by being a cook… I’d ...

These are Ask a Geek Feminist questions, to the best of my knowledge this concludes posts answering questions from rounds 1 and 2. Round 3 will be in a few months. We got a couple ...

The Free Software Foundations Women’s Caucus grew out of the September 2009 FSF mini-summit on women in Free Software. The Caucus has now released their initial findings and recommendations, here’s an excerpt: We identified a ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. Some of us are professional scientists, or are studying to become professional scientists (me), or like to read about science as a hobby, yes? ...

Mystery and the Modern Woman: Tara Hunt writes about heterosexual dating, and men who are intimidated by heavy social networking “full disclosure” women. Closing the Venture Capital Gender Gap: Astia’s CEO, Sharon Vosmek, writes about ...

I broke my own Ask a Geek Feminist rules, and held back a question from the first round until I had time to dig up a few more references. I’m still not happy with it, ...

BlogHer has a post listing 10 Terrific Tech Blogs (written by women). We’re even included, as is my university friend Gail! I enjoy seeing these lists and learning about a few new blogs, but it ...

Facebook is offering scholarships to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on September 28 – October 2, 2010. You must be a US resident, female, and a university student ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Most male geeks believe that they are subverting traditional masculinity by reclaiming and self-identifying with the term “geek”. For most male geeks, geek identity is defined partly as ...

Via everyone everywhere, Blizzard’s (developer of World of Warcraft and the Starcraft and Diablo franchises) game discussion forums are the latest online forum to come up with the bright idea to make everything all better ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question. This question may seem very 101 but I have yet been able to find or formulate a good response to a comment I recently received from another ...

Team Antipodes is a team of three girls “headquartered in Pacifica, California, USA, but dedicated to collaboration with similar teams from around the globe.” They competed in the 2009 FIRST Lego League, placing third in ...