Archive for August, 2010

This was originally posted to my personal blog This post entitled Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men was making the rounds when I got back from camping yesterday. It’s a “just do ...

Shira Ovide over at the Wall Street Journal’s Venture Capital Dispatch wrote a blog post on Friday that’s got a few people in a tizzy over the visibility of women in tech. Ovide’s piece is ...

Oh noes, we’re due for an Open thread. But myself and my family are sick and stressed. What shall we do? I know, we shall copy-kitty a Hoyden About Town regular feature, and post some ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! People who consider themselves fully rational individuals are ignorant about basic psychology and their own minds. It is easy for white men in science, technology, engineering, and math ...

[Trigger warning: as you probably realized from the title, this post discusses the (overuse) of rape in fantasy settings] I’m going to start with saying that I thought the Penny Arcade comic was actually pretty ...

Alice Adams writes about What women want and how not to give it to them, which includes a list of things companies do that cause their attempts at hiring more women to be ineffective. Chantaal ...

[Trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault in games and comedy and sexual slavery] Wednesday’s Penny Arcade told this joke where a hero insisted on leaving a rape victim in his own personal hell. Why? ...

Students who did not have the privilege of hacking since they were young are at a disadvantage in Computer Science (CS). However, CS departments can teach introductory programming using an obscure functional programming language to ...

When not making music and splattering it unceremoniously across the Internet, Lindsey Kuper braindumps on her blog about life as a computer science Ph.D. student and human being. It took her fully half an hour ...

I’ve been working on a rather silly but entertaining project for the past few weeks: It’s a hat, that’s also a compass.  There are LEDs in the brim – whichever is pointed North is the ...

(Cross-posted from my personal blog.) It should be no surprise that I am thrilled – nay, bubbling over with effervescent happiness – that Elena Kagan was confirmed today to the U.S. Supreme Court. As of ...

We’d love to feature more guest posts on Geek Feminism, and we accept proposals at any time. But relying on self-nominations from our core audience, women, is problematic due to social training against self-promotion. So ...

Pewter is a geek of Virtual Worlds and Imagined Spaces. By reading far too many books and keeping some excellent company she has managed to become somewhat opinionated. She blogs at MentalShaman while she treads ...

Gail Carmichael muses upon What Your Identity Has to Do With Learning including how this affects women in technology. Open to Everyone: How Open Source Communities Can Benefit from Diversity Without Disunity: Open source is ...

‘CAUSE I’M NERDCORE LIKE THAT: Toward a Subversive Geek Identity: In the meantime, subversive nerd subcultures form communities and alliances, fostering a collective cultural cross-fertilization that is strengthened by our multiple intelligences and identities. reaction ...

The Free Software Foundation is looking for an [unpaid] intern: The Women’s Caucus is seeking an intern to assist with its work to increase the number of women involved in free software. Caucus projects include: ...