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Posts tagged ‘allies’

2012.04.18   Ways for men to respond to harassment of women   (9)

We often get asked questions about how to be a better geek feminist ally, so here’s a video of a bunch of men demonstrating ways to respond to street harassment. I think the delivery and expressions here really help get the message across.

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2011.09.02   I’m too pretty to linkspam (2nd September, 2011)   (5)

Another old project moved (copied) to the GF wiki: Mary imported the Women in FLOSS bibliography she originally wrote for LinuxChix and added some new material. Add all material you know of related to women ...

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2011.06.03   Playing the linkspam card (4th June, 2011)   (2)

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men: If white, male elites started saying, I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white ...

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2011.03.03   “But what could I have said/done?”   (12)

[Trigger warning for use of rape as an analogy for display of dominance] This is a discussion I just saw in a project/support channel on an IRC server I frequent. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon ...

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2010.12.08   The Importance of Allies   (2)

Deb Nicholson is a geeky gal who is motivated by the intersection of technology and social justice. She spends her time working freelance with the Caucus to Increase Women’s Participation in Free Software and pursuing ...

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2010.12.03   The links are strong with this one (4th December, 2010)   (0)

Valerie’s Conference anti-harassment policy is under discussion at LWN and Hacker News (‘ware: both sites well known for faily comments, although as of writing LWN is doing mostly OK). LWN’s article will be de-paywalled in ...

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2010.05.03   Beginning a feminist journey   (11)

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question. (See the status of this project, also.) I am a girl geek in a relationship with a guy geek, and this guy geek was raised by his ...

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