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Posts tagged ‘clothing’

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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2011.08.30   The performer formerly known as Linkspam (31st August, 2011)   (2)

Women’s security scholarships, clothing dilemmas portrayed, sexism in geek culture broadly, and more.

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2011.01.27   Everyone gets a linkspam! (27th January, 2011)   (3)

Programming suggestions for WisCon, the feminist scifi convention, close tomorrow, Friday, 28 January. Anyone can submit an idea; just create a login. A recent IBM infomercial highlights the role of Patricia McHugh, designer of the ...

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2011.01.17   Open thread: geek clothes, current and rejected   (12)

Last year, Brianna Laugher did a visual review of her geek shirts, those currently in active use and those consigned to the crinkle-heap. Here are her current faves, there are notes on the Flickr page: ...

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2011.01.09   Re-post: Clothes and geek feminism   (6)

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, I’m reposting some of my writing from 2010, for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on the 20th June 2010. I’ve been chewing over ...

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2010.10.01   Queer geeks, femininity and gender presentation   (13)

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. Here’s another clothing question, although I suppose that it could be expanded to gendered behavior in general. I’ve read geek women (on this site ...

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2010.09.21   The spammers, united, will never be defeated   (3)

The Haecksen women’s miniconference at linux.conf.au (Brisbane, January 2011) is calling for submissions, closing very shortly on September 24. Abbie Heppe gave a critical review of Metroid: Other M, and the backlash was immense and ...

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2010.07.19   Geek men’s appearance, and related issues   (37)

These are Ask a Geek Feminist questions, to the best of my knowledge this concludes posts answering questions from rounds 1 and 2. Round 3 will be in a few months. We got a couple ...

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2010.06.20   Clothes and geek feminism   (14)

I’ve been chewing over various things about clothing and geek feminism since our recent posts about clothing and grooming (Kylie’s, Terri’s first, Terri’s second). I still think I can’t address it satisfactorily, but I thought ...

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2010.06.11   The wicked step-linkspammer (11th June, 2010)   (2)

tigtog highlights editorials and articles in Nature questioning sex bias in medical testing, particularly the exclusion of pregnant subjects. harpers_child is angry: Batman fans asked DC Comics for a in-comic memorial for Stephanie Brown, a ...

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2010.05.24   Open Thread: Celebrating great geeky shirts for women   (17)

Code like a girl by xeeliz. by xeeliz. Many geeky women are pretty excited about the two “heroine” T’s that Thinkgeek is offering: Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie are currently featured. I’m a big fan ...

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