Life, the Universe and Linkspam (29th May, 2012)
May 29th, 2012 by spam-spam
- Seeing the Future in Science Fiction: Famed science fiction author William Gibson writes that for a “curious, anxious, white male child coming of age in an incurious and paranoid white monoculture, there was literally nothing like it—though a great deal of science fiction, possibly the majority of it, I was starting to notice, depicted futuristic monocultures that were dominated by white males.”
- Not All Feminists Are Alike: a Gamer’s Perspective : An RPG based explanation of some differences between feminist. Or, to quote a commenter there, “knowing someone who agrees with you who physically approximates me does not invalidate my feelings or input on a topic.”
- Two posts on problems with informal networks of reporting harassment at conferences
The Tweetup Teams’ Response to the Sexism in D&D Debate : a group that organizes D&D events in the UK talks about ways in which they plan to make their events welcoming to female participantsWhy Will And Jada Pinkett Smith Let Daughter Willow Cut Her Hair : “She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.”Gender/Play: The Problems, Promise, and Pleasures of Video Game Crossplaying (part 1) : “‘crossplaying’ gender too often serves to confirm the same harmful ideologies which reduce the bodies of others to objects of desire (or, sometimes, revulsion). But it also produces potentialities: the promise of surprising, often radical re-imaginings of the ways we understand—and are bound by—concepts like gender, sexuality, and identity.”Why I Write “Strong Female Characters” : “People always ask Rucka why he chooses to write so many hard-hitting women. And now, to celebrate the release of his new novel Alpha, he’s explaining why.”Kim Polese: Stop Comparing Female Execs And Just Let Sheryl Sandberg Do Her Job : A response to Eric Jackson’s post, “Sheryl Sandberg is the Valley’s It Girl – Just Like Kim Polese Once Was”You can suggest links for future linkspams in comments here, or by using the “geekfeminism” tag on delicious 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.
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Asheesh Laroia:
June 1st, 2012 at 11:36 am
Hey link spam people! (: I was wondering if you might be able to help spread the word about an upcoming QA event that’s welcoming to beginners of all backgrounds that will improve Wikipedia and the underlying software.
https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/june-9-help-wikipedia-test-some-software-and-get-involved-in-their-community-no-programming-required/ is the information link. Thanks either way!
Mary:
June 3rd, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Thanks for the submission, but if we start promoting general geek events we’ll end up with linkspams that aren’t really doing what they’re meant to in terms of creating visibility for writing/events by and for women and feminists.
The classifieds posts are an appropriate place to promote things to readers here that aren’t specifically about women, feminism or anti-oppression.
Asheesh Laroia:
June 4th, 2012 at 10:13 am
Mary, thanks for that clarification. An extremely reasonable policy, and also thank you for being so helpful and clear when saying “no”! (-:
I’ll aim for the classified posts in the future for things like this in the future!