Posts tagged ‘ableism’

[Warning for ableism.] Kathy Sierra has published a video about online harassment, particularly an incident in 2008 targetting people with epilepsy, transcripted here.

Color Lines gives us The Ultimate 21st Century People of Color Sci-Fi List It seems that when it comes to sci-fi, cultural experiences of the melanin-inclined are merely reserved for exotic backdrop (ahem, “Stargate”) and ...

Marissa Lingen writes on the highly disturbing but very very common theme of explaining harassment and abuse as inevitable results of people with autism spectrum conditions participating in geek or online communities: Somebody conflated predatory ...

jadelennox gives concrete ways that able-bodied people can fight ableism, on top of or instead of blogging about it. On that note, Anna has founded a transcripts community on Dreamwidth, for volunteers to help out ...

The Hack Gender project is running until June 5, inviting you to create something that talks about gender and its transitory state in modern discourse. See submission instructions and existing submissions. FemaleScienceProfessor tackles a question ...

Spoiler warning: the last part of this spam spoils a scene in a very recent Doctor Who. There thus might be spoilers in our comments too. Two-wheel triumph: Armed with a netbook, medical supplies and ...

Her Universe will be offering licensed Star Wars gear specifically for female fans, who thus far have been a tad under-served as a market. See the announcement. Biella Coleman comments on Clay Shirky and WYNC ...

This is a guest post by Jonathan Lavallee. Jonathan spends his days toiling about with batch processes and overnight jobs, but in his other life he’s a game designer and a poet who is constantly ...

This week’s very special gift to the computing community, by which I mean, this week’s example of complete fail, was the Yahoo! Taiwan Open Hack Day, featuring lap dancers. Here’s the links people are passing ...

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