Archive for August, 2011

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

[Trigger warning for harassment, threatening violence against women] A few years ago, a wonderful woman and prominent tech blogger named Kathy Sierra was driven offline because the the readers of a hate website called MeanKids ...

Submit a Wednesday Geek Woman to highlight in advance of Ada Lovelace Day.

Women’s security scholarships, clothing dilemmas portrayed, sexism in geek culture broadly, and more.

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers. When interviewing for a job (as the applicant), how do you select for a healthy culture? What unpleasant traits (e.g. narcissism, sexism) do you ...

Apparently game company Good Old Games' booth at PAX prime this year featured booth grandmas passing out cookies. I was worried the PAX coverage would just make me sad that I couldn’t make it this ...

Maybe once a month, at a “girl geek” event, or once a year at a women-focused event at a conference, can technical women enjoy relief from a mental burden that they may not even consciously realise they are carrying. It is not the world’s hugest burden by any measure, but it exists, and can keep us self-silencing and self-doubting.

Why do female geek objectify themselves or present themselves as sexy versions of the things geek men love? That’s what a recent Comic-Con panel, “Oh, You Sexy Geek!” asked, but maybe it isn’t the right question at all.

In the absence of doctors’ records, it can never be known how many babies died in the U.S. because of thalidomide’s “clinical trials”; Dr. Lenz estimated that in forty percent of cases where there was ...

Do women and startups mix? Was Battlestar Galactica that good? Is dressing up in Leia’s slave costume empowering? All linkspammed today.

I’m travelling this week, so today’s open thread is brought to you by Pony Elvis. Feel free to discuss anything here that falls within our comment guidelines. Thank you very much.

With DC rebooting their entire universe, it’s not entirely surprising that I’ve seen a lot of Justice League links of late. Here’s three that I think Geek Feminism readers might find interesting, put together in ...

Technology protest isn’t just about “leave if you don’t like it”. What services do you stick with and protest about? Which ones have you left/not signed up for despite temptation?

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Ellen Ochoa, inventor of optical processing systems and NASA space shuttle astronaut.

Links discussing pseudonyms, Google+ suspensions, Google’s reasoning and more.

What do a PSA about backups, pseudonymity advocacy, Wikipedia and Hermione Granger have in common? They’re all linkspammed today.