Posts tagged ‘craft’

Like many geeks, I’m a big fan of making things or hacking them to suit my needs. A friend recently asked if all female programmers are also knitters, and while I think that’s unlikely (I ...

Women in genre fiction, a non-physicist at CERN, open journal access as a feminist issue, and more!

Talk on June 15 at Melbourne University: Dr Cathy Foley, 100 years later: has anything changed for women in science?: This talk will look at what is the status of women in science in Australia, ...

Apparently we’ve never had a hyperbolic crochet thread before. Criminal, I say. Here’s an example: Image description: a close-up of a very multi-coloured crochet item, with many curves folding in on itself. Image credit: Michael ...

As I mentioned in Some reasons I’m looking forwards to PAX East, my friends and I have been making angry birds to play with at PAX East this weekend. I finally took some pictures and ...

Wednesday Geek Woman submissions are open for one more day after this post appears. Lesley Hall recently published an essay on the missing narratives of women in science in L Timmel Duchamp (ed), Narrative Power: ...

A few Penny Arcade fans with little grasp of basic human decency and even less grasp of basic grammar and spelling have really been making for an unpleasant week. The last linkspam has related links ...