Archive for December, 2010

Addie writes in an earlier linkspam: Violet Blue wrote about the women-in-tech issue today and although I normally love her, the implication that nobody has been able to accurately answer her question really bothers me, ...

Activist burnout: Dan Choi, an activist working to end DADT (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, US miliitary policy against openly lesbian, gay or bi people serving), made his burnout and hospitalisation public: I did not initially ...

Our last open thread of the year! Image description: an analogue clock face, distorted so that instead of being circular, it spirals into the centre of the picture, with the numbers repeating. Image by Robbert ...

This is a guest post. Tabitha Roder is the leader of the One Laptop per Child volunteers in New Zealand. This is a group that meets every saturday in 3 cities across the country. This ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, I’m reposting some of my writing from earlier in 2010, for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on the 9th April 2010. Code Anthem’s ...

Here are some of my favourite guest posts of 2010. I’ve organized them by topic, but many of the links appear under more than one category. On Geek Identity G33k & G4M3R Girls: You’re doing ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, we’re reposting some older writing for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on Apr 14, 2010. This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: ...

Notice: we currently use delicious.com as a way of getting people to suggest links for these. The future of delicious.com is currently a little unclear, but since they are saying that it will stay up ...

This is a guest post by L. Minter. L. Minter is a feminist biology student and a blogger at Feminist Book Club. Rachel Carson was born on a farm in Pennsylvania where she was an ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, we’re reposting some older writing for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on Nov 21, 2009. I teach first year computer game development at ...

Despite the fact that I grew up to earn a degree in mathematics, I remember math classes in my elementary school as pretty much the dullest subject on earth. Which is probably one of the ...

We announced a generic conference anti-harassment policy a couple of weeks ago. Since then several conferences have adopted anti-harassment policies, including Linux.conf.au 2011, FSF’s LibrePlanet 2011, and now all of Linux Foundation’s events have an ...

Hello geekfeminists! Thursday, Dec. 16th, I’m going to be on a radio show on Feminism Online, hosted by Ananda Leeke as part of her month long Digital Sisterhood project. The show will air on Dec. ...

Wednesday Geek Woman submissions are open for one more day after this post appears. Submissions will open again in early January. This is a guest post by Heliconia. Heliconia is a Canadian graduate student in ...

Have any of you noticed the amount of fun geeky jewelery around at the moment? I for one have pink laptop earrings which I got from Claire’s in the US last month, HTML head tag ...

Call For Participation: Spectral Amoebas – A Blog Carnival about Asexuality and the Autism Spectrum: We are asexual bloggers on the autistic spectrum who want to explore the intersection between autistic and asexual identities. The ...