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Archive for September, 2010

2010.09.26   Geek Feminism and Mideast Youth   (1)

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 ...

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2010.09.24   Apologising for success   (7)

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 ...

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2010.09.23   She Geek: Women and Self-Labeling in Online Geek Communities   (18)

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 ...

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2010.09.22   No power in the ‘verse can stop this linkspam   (5)

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; ...

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2010.09.22   CompSci Woman: Looking for stories of women in computer science   (2)

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 ...

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2010.09.22   half hearted ethnicity in toys: japan barbie + ken   (4)

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 ...

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2010.09.21   The spammers, united, will never be defeated   (3)

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 ...

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