Archive for April, 2011

Welcome to a special round of Ask a Geek Feminist! There are a few photographers/recorders or event organisers who want to ask us questions about their policies or practices, and don’t feel their questions fit ...

We’re starting to collect some examples of photography/recording harassment experiences (still open , and some of the kinds of problems people mention there and elsewhere are: photography/recording conducted in a way that is designed to ...

The Wednesday Geek Woman series is mostly on hiatus. Remaining WGW posts will appear sporadically over the next few months. This is a guest post by Jennifer, an Australian actuary and feminist who blogs at ...

Adelaide, Australia: 15th International Conference for Women Engineers and Scientists: The International Conference for Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) has been held every three years since 1964 and provides an important forum for the exchange ...

This is an anecdote gathering exercise, hopefully creating an opportunity for discussion around photography at geek events. At present, the confererence anti-harassment policy (which, as a reminder, is designed to be edited to be made ...

Counting Colored Cash: there’s plenty of successful media with central characters of color, there’s plenty of whitewashed/all-white media that flops. So why the myth that all-white/whitewashing is just good business? Trigger warning Resistance Is Useful: ...

Apparently we’ve never had a hyperbolic crochet thread before. Criminal, I say. Here’s an example: Image description: a close-up of a very multi-coloured crochet item, with many curves folding in on itself. Image credit: Michael ...

I loved Elfquest as a girl, and I wish I had the talent and time to put together something like this beautiful fan-made trailer, staring mostly women: More about the project at http://elfquestfantrailer.com/.

Cori Roberts is founder of Gameinatrix.com and remaining founding member of Gamer Girls Radio, and has been involved in gaming media for over 8 years. She’s currently obsessed with the MMO Fallen Earth and anything ...

Words and Offense: Of course slurs are still bad… Offense is just not the reason why. Systemic oppression, concept association and a phenomenon known as hostile tagging (where the phrase either tags a person as ...

Ella is an outright devotee of video games and has been since she was small. She has a BA in English literature from the University of Sussex and is currently on her way towards an ...

There’s been lots of links around the results of Nadya A. Fouad and Romila Singh (2011) Stemming the Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering. Since it’s freely available, I thought I’d encourage people to go directly ...

Google Summer of Code applications are open, closing this week (Friday April 8). Check our project advertisements and application tips. Google Announces HITB2011AMS Conference Grant for Women Hackers: This grant is set up to enable ...

You know, I’m not sure I can think of any commentary that would really enhance this link: Bangable Dudes in History. So instead, I’m going to tell you that this is an open thread. We ...

True story! I’m a wife now. I’ve moved up in the WAG acronym. There’s been a lot of pushback on Cate’s guest post and with good reason, because it can be easily read as positing ...