- Gaming Made Me: Fallout 2 | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: “a stark personal tale of how videogame fantasy can inspire interest, provoke thought, and ultimately change how we see the world.”
- Uni gives birth to scholarships for pregnant PhD candidates | The Sydney Morning Herald: “the University of NSW has introduced a scholarship for pregnant PhD candidates.”
- Hacking My Vagina | scanlime: A super detailed post on the author’s process of hacking the remote control for her vibrator, including Arduino programming, 3D printing and more!
- Revenge of the Nerds: White Male Geeks Hack Sexism, Racism | Jezebel: “The organizers of Brit Ruby 2013 were challenged to do better by almost HALF of the github commenters, including one of their own white male speakers, and by many more around the web”
- So you want to put on a diverse, inclusive conference | ashe dryden: Lots of details, videos, and links to more resources.
- Museum of Dungeons & Dragons | indiegogo: “There’s a fundraising project at indiegogo for a D&D museum. I thought that was worth publicizing here in an effort to ensure that women gamers are visible in the project from the ground up.”
- Judge orders sex harassment plaintiffs to produce Facebook passwords | ars technica: “Sort of relevant to geekdom, since it involves social networking, and definitely something that will interest feminists”
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Is there a site to point people to when they start arguing against including non-white-dudes? Quotas, equal op, etc? I’m ok but not nearly good enough to counter all of their stupid red herrings and whatnot.
(ie: “if women were qualified they’d be here!”)
Can anyone vouch for the D&D Museum people? Who are they? Do we have any evidence they have the necessary skills to start and run a museum? Just the relocation costs from themselves will eat a bit chunk of their budget. How will two people support themselves on this, or do they have a day job that can survive a cross-country move? How do they know $150,000 is the right amount of money when they’re considering locations scattered across the country? I’m also worried that this a flexible funding campaign, so if they raise just $5,000, they’ll get the money despite it not really helping with their goal at all.
At best I think it’s two people with a great vision but no evidence they can actually pull it off. Absent that evidence, I think it best to warn people away from this project.
In light of the Brit Ruby fiasco, I found this particularly relevant:
“How to Increase Media Diversity: 3 Lessons from the London Feminist Film Festival”
http://www.racialicious.com/2012/12/05/how-to-increase-media-diversity-3-lessons-from-the-london-feminist-film-festival/
Sickening; I hope this is overturned soon: https://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20121205/08294221238/indian-village-bans-unmarried-women-girls-using-mobile-phones.shtml
Of *course* they just put the ban on women and girls, not seeing any need to restrict men and boys from the perceived dangers of sexting etc.