Archive for February, 2011

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. ...