- Petition to Put Ada Lovelace on the £10 Note: “[O]ther than the Queen, there will be no women featuring on our English bank notes… We would like to propose Ada Lovelace – Founder of Scientific Computing – as the new face for the £10 note. A true champion of women in science and technology.”
- Do geek stereotypes keep women out of computer science? “This study definitely provides another good reason to be annoyed at the geek stereotypes in mass media, because they’re keeping away smart, talented people away from technical fields.”
- Why we are not showing Gone Home at PAX | The Fullbright Company: “We believe that people’s opinions and actions on social issues and business ethics are important. We believe that agreeing to pay the organizers of PAX over $1,000 for booth space, and to present our game on their showfloor for four days, provides explicit support for and tacit approval of their publicly demonstrated positions on these subjects.”
- An interview with Jim Sterling about sexism in game culture | Gaming As Women: “I don’t think it was any one thing that changed my mind, though I would strongly credit the work of writers such as yourself for putting under the microscope that which I was unwilling.”
- Running with wolves: impostor syndrome and sexism in science: “There is no doubt in my mind that the structure of the field needs to change. It is not just about encouraging women into research but facilitating our staying. That means addressing the gender gap and other concerns that we have as a community.”
- Kicking impostor syndrome in the head: lessons from AdaCamp DC and SF | The Ada Initiative: Talks and exercises about impostor syndrome.
- Thank you, allies: “Last week I arrived at Open Source Bridge to find the floor marked out with blue painters’ tape “travel lanes”. It was a shock. Someone had thought about it. Someone had been at AdaCamp, or at WisCon, or had done some research, and put a useful accessibility tool in place. I didn’t have to ask for it, it was just there. A surge of feeling welcome came over me, as it did at AdaCamp.”
- Don’t be a Jerk: Responding to Ally Criticism: “Kronda proposed drilling a mantra into your head for when you’re accused of being biased: Stop. Listen. Apologize.”
- Invited Speakers, Role Models and Women | Inside Science – The Royal Society’s magazine: “This paper exemplifies, albeit in a very different situation, why having women visible on [science] conference platforms matters.”
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PLEASE STOP TOUCHING MY BREASTS, AND OTHER THINGS I SAY AT CONS
by Carrie Cuinn
http://carriecuinn.com/2013/06/30/please-stop-touching-my-breasts-and-other-things-i-say-at-cons/
Not only do we–as writers, and women–have to deal with sexism, and the agressive insistence from some men that we all just settle down, but we also have to deal with being harassed at conventions where we’re supposed to be fans, writers, editors, and publishers. Worse, because so often it goes unreported, many people’s response has been, “I didn’t know that happened.” How can you stop something we don’t talk about? So, okay, let’s talk about the details.
Hello Linkspam Experts,
Can you recommend a resource for finding new-to-me sci-fi / fantasy authors? My tastes can be narrow, er, selective, so recommendations from friends and goodreads users doesn’t always cut it.
I’d love to see a database where the object fields include information that archives of amateur writing have been including for years; sub-genre, authors with whom the author is stylistically similar, prevalence of romance, level of graphic-ness regarding sex, violence level, triggers, Bechdel score, the level of pro-active will that the heroines exhibit in their own lives, the level of female oppression the author has assumed must be present in a fantasy world, etc. (Ok, I may have added a few of those myself.)
Does a reference like this exist? Can I search it with boolean combinations of my preferred values for the fields?
Thanks,
E. P.
Your best move might be to go to your local public library and ask who their top SFF librarian is. Not only are public librarians very accustomed to readers-advisory questions, they will have reference books and specialized databases specific to this kind of question to fall back on.
“Tumblr rejects Disney’s billionth white princess” – http://ow.ly/mAD1U
Princess Peach saves Mario? Videogame players rewrite storylines to highlight heroines. http://on.wsj.com/16NiyWl
How Martin Belan’s spoof Twitter account showed him the level of abuse women face on social media
http://martinbelam.com/2013/bbcextraghost/
Two articles about women in comics:
Lois Lane, Refrigerators, and Superman’s Dick -http://www.comicsbulletin.com/columns/5355/lois-lane-refrigerators-and-supermans-dick/
Writers, artists, editors, everyone taking part in the creative process – DON’T DO THIS. – http://thebirdandthebat.tumblr.com/post/54520019884/writers-artists-editors-everyone-taking-part-in
I’ve got a question for the Geek Feminism community. I’m looking for information on “positive diversity statements”* in job listings: (1) the impact of adding language to a job listing that positively states that women and other marginalized groups are welcome and encouraged to apply, and (2) good examples or guidelines wording such a statement.
*I know there’s a name for this but it’s evading me right now, which is stymieing my search engine efforts.
I greatly appreciate any pointers. Thanks.