The Linkspam Mystique (15th June, 2012)

June 15th, 2012 by spam-spam

  • Con Kerfuffles

  • This September, the creator of Jem will write DC Comics’ most 1980s fantasy heroine : io9 interviews Christy Marx on the return of Amethyst

  • Women On Top: Inappropriate Dropdowns | UX Booth : A look at the title dropdown field

  • Stanford University Students Challenge Silicon Valley: More Femgineers, Less Nerds | Forbes : interview with two female Stanford engineering students who organized the school’s first conference for women in technology

  • to brown gurls, whose bodies have never been enough : my body is the most satisfying problem i have ever solved

  • The BBC mentions mediaeval female protestors having been written out of history: Peasants’ Revolt: The time when women took up arms

  • Software & Race: We Can Do Better : “We are making worse software because there isn’t anyone to question the basic assumptions of predominantly young, white, male software developers.”

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    2 comments on this post.

    1. Victoria Gaile:

      June 16th, 2012 at 8:37 am

      Bronte Sisters Power Dolls video: Could have been made with Geek Feminists in mind.

    2. Beth:

      June 18th, 2012 at 6:04 pm

      I just wrote a new blog post in which I do some cross-national comparison of women’s enrollment in CS and propose that the problem is what a terrible place the Internet is to participate in: http://blog.bethcodes.com/is-the-internet-convincing-women-not-to-study