The objects of the linkspam gaze (26th April, 2011)
- 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 of information and ideas for women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
19–22 July. - Matt K is looking to put together a panel on Privilege in Geek Communities at Seattle Geek Girl Con in September. Reply on the forum if you want to help out in some way.
- Trigger warning: account of harassment, extensive quoted misogynist, homophobic and transphobic language. An occupational hazard?: a long musing on and set of experiences of photography and related harassment.
- From Alexander Pope to “Splice”: a Short History of the Female Mad Scientist
… there seem to be few female mad scientists. Which is odd, because the first significant fictional mad scientist was a woman.
- Women in Computing:
A close friend suddenly found himself in position to influence efforts in this area by a Fortune 50 IT company. The company’s declared goal is to make IT careers more attractive to women, starting at K-12 level.
The writer wants suggestions. (Warning: many faily existing comments including, eg, suggestions of forced testosterone supplementation!) - A Ten-Year-Old’s Rant To “Boys Around The World”: Not very geek per se, but very feminism in the "stereotypes are bad" way.
- Drawing women: the evolution of Lois Lane – The F-Word:
In 1941, the executives who ran comics juggernaut DC forced the artists behind Superman to change the look of Lois Lane, with the aim of turning her into more of a
tasty dish
. - Web Designers vs. Web Developers (Infographic): a snarky footnote doesn’t fix this fail.
- Mother entrepreneurs respond to anti-mother sentiment: Response to VC CONFESSION: “I Have Doubts Once I Think Of Women Founders Having Kids…â€
You can suggest links for future linkspams in comments here, or by using the “geekfeminism” tag on delicious, freelish.us or pinboard.in or the “#geekfeminism” tag on Twitter. Please note that we tend to stick to publishing recent links (from the last month or so).
Thanks to everyone who suggested links.
Deborah:
April 25th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Ugh. I did not expect the comments at “Women in Computing” to be so utterly failtastic. I think I need to wash after reading those.
Mary:
April 25th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Urgh, I’ve updated the warning to be a bit stronger, sorry.
Raven:
April 25th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
They were pretty dreadful, yeah. I hope we did some good by leaving useful suggestions, and I hope the exec in question listens to us rather than to the dudes claiming we don’t exist (when we’re, y’know, right there commenting and all). It seems likely.
But urgh, fighting the good fight is exhausting sometimes. Thanks for contributing.
Anne in Colorado:
April 28th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Hi — I am new to your blog, and was saddened to see the Wednesday Geek Woman going on hiatus. I’d love to write some submissions, and have been through the posts and I think this is an okay place to submit, but I have no idea how to do a hidden comment.
So, 1.) are you still open for submissions? 2.) Is this an okay place to put them (until next week’s linkspam?) 3.) tips on hidden comments?
Thanks!
Mary:
April 28th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Hi!
There’s no way for commenters to choose to hide their comments, sorry, it’s a global setting on submission posts. I will email you about how to submit.
If anyone else wants to write a WGW, leave a comment here (or future open threads) and we’ll get in touch with you too.
Erica:
April 29th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Future link:
Interviews with women in Planetary Science
http://womeninplanetaryscience.wordpress.com/profiles/
azureye:
May 8th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Future link: this xkcd http://xkcd.com/896/