Posts tagged ‘books’

A few more posts in response to Michael Arrington’s Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.: Aliza Sherman’s We Aren’t Blaming Men; Sasha Pasulka’s Stop Telling People How They Should Feel About It; ...

Here’s an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers (questions still being taken): Reading Rudy Simone’s Aspergirls prompted me to crystallise this question: where are the female role models for young geek women? I’m ...

John Scalzi’s post on the failure mode of “clever” is “asshole” seems awfully obvious given the number of really appallingly terrible pickup lines that people’ve tried to use on me as a geek woman. Just ...

Open World Forum 2010 (Sep 30 to Oct 1, Paris) is having a Diversity Summit: Why women matter? relating to women in Free/Open Source Software. There’s an associated poll to gather data about women in ...

Here’s a bit of a 101 thread with a difference, it’s 101 for women writers, not 101 for feminism. Over at Tiger Beatdown C.L. Minou talks about her transition in reading (which coincided with her ...

Both rounds of “Ask a Geek Feminist” so far have contained some variant of “why are there so few women in computer science or software development, should we fix this, and how should we fix ...

Inspired by a post of lauredhel’s asking for recent movies that pass the Bechdel test, I wondered if anyone has some recommendations for good recent geeky entertainment that also passes, ideally comprehensively rather than barely. ...