Archive for September, 2010

Quinn Norton is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in Wired News, The Guardian, Make Magazine, Seed, and more. She covers copyright, robotics, computer security, intellectual property, body modification, and medicine. She wanders about, ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the talk description for one of the Grace Hopper 2010 keynotes. The talk description began with an anecdote in which Le is told by a male colleague that he never thought ...

Over on our linkspam, jon wrote: Continuing to follow up on the Arrington “Stop blaming men” post, I’ve got a preview of this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference at TechCrunch, disrupted: the third wave meets the ...

Dear Lazyweb, How many sexist fallacies can you list in one comment on this talk description? You may link to Feminism 101 to save on typing. Background: Tomorrow morning is the first keynote speech of ...

The 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is kicking off today in Atlanta. Those of you who are here: keep an eye out for me — I’d love to chat with GF readers ...

Amber is a Capital Markets Technology consultant who currently works on Wall Street making trading platforms suck less. If she’s not online kicking ass in PvP, you can probably find her somewhere on the Lower ...

These are Ask a Geek Feminist questions for our commenters. Since these two are short and sweet and linky, I’m running them in one post. Other than Geek Feminism, what blogs and sites do you ...

Guest Post by Esra’a from Bahrain. She enjoys hardcore acoustic noise-terror music, and is fortunate enough to be a TED Global Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow, and on the Advisory Board for the European Summit for ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. Questions are now closed, another round will run in early 2011. Here’s my question: How does one deal with feeling guilty for doing well ...

Courtney is an MA student studying Victorian science fiction at Texas A&M University. She blogs about feminism, geekery, and academia at From Austin to A&M. This post originally appeared at From Austin to A&M. My ...

A few more posts in response to Michael Arrington’s Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.: Aliza Sherman’s We Aren’t Blaming Men; Sasha Pasulka’s Stop Telling People How They Should Feel About It; ...

My friend Cate and her friend Maggie have started a blog called CompSci Woman that I think many of you will enjoy reading, and hopefully some of you in computer science will be interested in ...

This post was originally published at 天高皇企鹅远. There are some new Barbies doing the rounds, and they’re amazing: I don’t even know what’s going on here. This toy website tells says that Japan Ken wears ...

The Haecksen women’s miniconference at linux.conf.au (Brisbane, January 2011) is calling for submissions, closing very shortly on September 24. Abbie Heppe gave a critical review of Metroid: Other M, and the backlash was immense and ...

The GNOME project, the widely used Free Software desktop and applications project, has announced paid internships for women: The GNOME Foundation will be sponsoring at least three internships for women from December 15, 2010 through ...

I am in love with Marian Call. This is beautiful. (via Amy at Skepchick)