Archive for November, 2010

It’s official: The example conference anti-harassment policy is out of beta and ready for prime time. This is a example anti-harassment policy suitable for most open source, computing, or technology-related conferences. It may be adopted ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! When top technology venture capitalist John Doerr decides which startup company to invest in, he consciously and deliberately chooses white males over women and racial minorities: “That correlates ...

A Very Special Episode of Grey Areas: Privilege Denying Dude Edition: In social justice, not all tactics that are divisive are effective, but all tactics that are effective are divisive. That doesn’t mean we should ...

Lesley Hall recently published an essay on the missing narratives of women in science in L Timmel Duchamp (ed), Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles , Aqueduct Press, 2010 My nomination is the British epidemiologist Alice ...

A few strands are coming together in comments. First, our linkspam linked to Richard Holmes’s The Royal Society’s lost women scientists, and Lesley Hall then commented: I’m somewhat annoyed at all the coverage A MAN ...

Technically, one can donate to the scholarship fund at any time. But today is the last day that one can buy tickets to win an eReader or an autographed copy of the Dark Matter anthology ...

Neville Park is a queer mixie nerd in Toronto. This post originally appeared at Wild Unicorn Herd. An interview with Palante Tech’s Jack Aponte (a. k. a. Angry Brown Butch) on, well, diversity in Drupal. ...

(Trigger warning for ‘net harassment.) Surprise surprise, it turns out that if you describe harassment and don’t name the harasser, you get criticised a lot too! Silencing, coming to a cinema near you. Daddy Blogger ...

Anti-Bullying Starts in First Grade: Katie, young Star Wars geek, gets support from the wider women geek community. Sady Doyle on women represented in geek culture continued: Lady Robots: The Shape of Things to Come ...

Recent events show that not everyone has the same expectations for behavior at open source conferences. If you are a conference organizer, having an explicit anti-harassment policy can help prevent unpleasant and embarrassing incidents. But ...

Wednesday Geek Woman submissions are currently open. This is a guest post by Twostatesystem. Twostatesystem is a physicist and feminist who wants to see his field be open and welcoming to all people. There are ...

Gina Minks responds to a post on our linkspam: I read this post (via the Geek Feminism Blog) and I just have to respond. The post is titled “Why women in tech need to stop ...

Sean Bonner has realised a very important dream: (via Leigh via Adafruit via BoingBoing) What else have unicorns been up to? Where else have unicorns been a critical technological tool? This is an open thread, ...

Recommendation letters could cost women jobs, promotions: Turns out women and men get different types of recommendation letters. “Female candidates were described in more communal (social or emotive) terms and male candidates in more agentic ...

Last time we talked about Hollaback, the organization to fight street harassment, they were raising money to fund development of an mobile phone app to make reporting street harassment fast and easy. Well, it’s ready! ...

A friend of mine sent me a link to this article about a $2 Million Grant To Develop Game That Breaks Bias Against Women In Sciences, and he pointed out that making hard work decisions ...