Archive for October, 2011

Trigger warning for body shame and eating disorders.

I’ve grown up through both geek and jock culture and they’re both the same. Dominated by men, a thin varnish over pervasive misogyny. The only difference is where the jocks know the girls have eating disorders, but don’t care; the geeks genuinely think that this part of the world cannot touch them.

Cookie of the Week* is an occasional series highlighting action in the geek community to fight sexism, in order to show that fighting sexism is possible and happening. This week’s winner is the IEEE, for ...

Even here at Geek Feminism there seems to be people searching for community. We are coming together for a sense of shared experience. So I am giving some unsolicited advice, much like I did on that conference call. If you are feeling isolated, find an organization with a purpose you can support. Attend, volunteer, get involved.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Sandra K. Johnson, parallel processing expert and first African-American woman electrical engineering PhD in the U.S.

A friend linked http://takebackhalloween.org/, which I think might appeal to folk here. They include costume ideas for Lise Meitner and Ada Lovelace among many other notable women. So it’s gotten me wondering… what are you, ...

It’s been two weeks since Ada Lovelace Day already! We also have a short roundup of posts that weren’t submitted for cross-posting here, but that you may still enjoy.

Let’s talk cocktail geeking. What do you imbibe that you think deserves a wider audience? Are you working on a recipe that you could use some feedback on?

This is also an open thread for general discussion on any topic, as long as it’s within the comment policy.

Trigger warning for quoted rape threats.

To date, the most interesting question about why the campaign against rape pages on Facebook is ‘Do you think Facebook will change its policies as a result of this campaign?’ Jane Osmond found herself saying ‘yes’.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is an unnamed member of DevChix who asked for an apology after a male speaker made a sexist joke.

Are we really doing this again? I just tried to register (as a speaker) for an upcoming tech conference. One that prides itself on its woman-friendliness, no less: they have an anti-harassment policy, a track ...

Trigger warning for discussion of and graphic examples of threatening online harassment. The other day Mary posted Online harassment as a daily hazard, linking to s.e. smith’s On blogging, threats, and silence. I thought I ...

Geek Feminism is now trialling submission of guest posts.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is multiple award winning architect, Zaha Hadid.

Trigger warning for discussion of and graphic examples of threatening online harassment.

We’re way past the point where “don’t feed the trolls” works, folks.

Submit your Ada Lovelace Day post to to Wednesday Geek Woman.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Denise Paolucci, who in collaboration with Mark Smith and a plethora of mostly-female coders, launched Dreamwidth in 2009.