Archive for November, 2010

(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 ...