Archive for July, 2010

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 ...