Archive for July, 2011

Tim Chevalier has just moved over the Male Programmer Privilege Checklist to the Geek Feminism wiki so that everyone can maintain it.

A mathematics Olympian, 1960s computer programmers, a writer who is so sick of tokenism he’d rather be erased, and more!

For today’s open thread, I want to share two sites http://cuteboyswithcats.net/ and http://cuteboyswithdogs.tumblr.com/ both of which are pretty much exactly what it says on the tin:

The Linux.conf.au 2012 proposal deadline is in a few hours, which gives you plenty of time to cut and paste the following into your speaker proposal: I believe conferences should provide a safe, harassment-free environment ...

Women in genre fiction, a non-physicist at CERN, open journal access as a feminist issue, and more!

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Charlie McCord, a PhD candidate in biology at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on biomechanics in fish feeding and the morphology of fish jaws.

These are Ask a Geek Feminist questions for our readers. They’re not the same question, but I put them together because they’re related. If you want to distinguish them in comments, call them Q1 and ...

This is something I asked in comments here the other day: So I think at this point we ideally would turn to research: how do people perceive the quality of communities on the real name ...

This is a guest post by Selena. It is cross-posted from her blog. I totally should be working on my talks right now, but instead I’ve been talking with people about the lack of a ...

I just spotted a picture of angry bird cupcakes drift past in my Google+ stream. Unfortunately when I clicked on it, it reported the site was over quota. Oh well. So I hopped over to ...

Trigger warning for rape culture rhetoric, and use of rape language as a joke. This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: What would a geek feminist do about this sign, which ...

Back-to-back American astronauts, yes. Special occasion! This is by request, from deborah on July 7: Sandra Magnus is flying on the last NASA space shuttle launch tomorrow– how about a quick hit about her? And ...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about pseudonymity and about online services that disallow it, instead requiring so-called “real names”. For example, previously on Geek Feminism: Hacker News and pseudonymity Another round of “real ...

This is a guest post by Katie Zenke. Katie has been writing about children’s books for almost ten years and occasionally writes about them in various places online. She even has a blog that she ...

Black and WTF: photographs of suffragettes. In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera to covertly photograph suffragettes. A bit of an oldie, but relevant to our recent Google+ discussions: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ...

I found this great source of Bill Nye music videos and this one made me laugh: I don’t know if he’s known world-wide, but the Bill Nye The Science Guy was an inordinately popular kids’ ...