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 ...