Archive for February, 2011

From The Advantage Of Dual-Identities (A Case Study of Nabokov), I bring you this quote: It’s also important to note that the advantage of having a “dual-identity” – being both a novelist and a scientist, ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters: What startups do geek feminists see as role models for diversity, and why? And, what do people think of the idea of a company ...

I’m a big fan of advertisement-hacking, and I think quite a lot of people here will get a kick out of this one, so even though it was linked in the linkspam I’m putting it ...

Ada Lovelace Day, the once a year blogswarm highlighting women in technology will be held on October 7 (unlike the previous two years when it was held in March). More keynoters in the open source ...

I think I’m going to start a new segment here, because I’ve just found another bit of awesome, nerdy stuff on the internet that would at very least amuse many geek women. I shall call ...

This is a guest post. Born in 1909 in England, Beatrice Shilling saved up for and bought her first motorcycle at age fourteen, at which age she was already able to take apart and reassemble ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: What are some ways in which I can avoid rejecting people who suffer from impostor syndrome when they apply for a job? I’ve recently been promoted to ...

Cross-posted at Restructure! There is sexism in tech culture. However, I continue to love tech, because I think of the sexism as a separate, unnecessary appendage to pure tech. I cannot think of sexism as ...

If you’ve been on The Internet a while, you may have heard of Etsy before. It’s awesome, and because of this awesomeness I was browsing it today. Today’s browsing of awesome has enlightened me to ...

[Trigger Warning: this post discusses trolling behaviour. Many links contain screenshots of threats, insults, sexual harassment and general profanity.] From the Frag Dolls blog: Less than a month ago, FatUglyorSlutty.com was just a twinkle in ...

Wednesday Geek Woman submissions are open for one more day after this post appears. Lesley Hall recently published an essay on the missing narratives of women in science in L Timmel Duchamp (ed), Narrative Power: ...

The story in El Reg is pretty amazing as it stands: LA Public Health Officials are investigating The Playboy Mansion after 100 techies became horribly ill in the wake of a party there. (As a ...

Spacefem is an electrical engineer who has a little extra time to run a feminist forum, write php scripts, and fly small airplanes. The New York Times has an article about how only about 13% ...

This is a guest post by Jacinta Richardson. Jacinta runs Perl Training Australia and is a strong supporter of making IT more friendly to everyone. This is an edited version of a mailing list post. ...

Wednesday Geek Woman submissions are currently open. This is a guest post by Deborah. Deborah blogs on open source, children’s literature, and accessibility. Sandy Payette is the chief executive officer of Duraspace. Duraspace formed from ...

Today, Valerie Aurora and I launched the Ada Initiative, a new non-profit organization dedicated to increasing participation of women in open technology and culture, which includes open source software, Wikipedia and other open data, and ...