Posts tagged ‘craft’

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 ...

A Very Special Episode of Grey Areas: Privilege Denying Dude Edition: In social justice, not all tactics that are divisive are effective, but all tactics that are effective are divisive. That doesn’t mean we should ...

I’ve recently gotten back in to cross stitching, after a twelve year break. The first thing I tried was this Firefox pattern from Radical Cross-stitch. It was not too difficult, and a good nerdy way ...

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; ...

In one of my posts, thewhatifgirl said: I’ve always wanted to take up embroidery (I impulse buy anything embroidered anyway, might as well learn to do it myself!) but always been repulsed by the subject ...

Clara Raubertas has a wrap-up of the women-in-Free-Software focussed talks and events at the Free Software Foundation’s LibrePlanet 2010. Richie is highly critical of an look-a-unicorn-in-wargaming entry at Bell of Lost Souls and goes on ...

This thread is open for geek feminist introductions, speculations, reminiscences and chatter. Please see our commenting policy guidelines. Conversational seed, in case you need one: in my recent sewing, software packaging, and lantern-making crafty/make-y/learn-y binge, ...

Behold Lauren McCarthy’s amazing Happiness Hat. It’s knitted hat that digs a spike into the back of your head when it senses that you’re not smiling. happiness hat from Lauren McCarthy on Vimeo. It’s amazingly ...

I knit. Sometimes I crochet, and sometimes I sew, but mostly, lately, I knit. My Nanna taught me when I was a kid, and I’ve done it on and off ever since. Sometimes people look ...