Ask a Geek Feminist, round 7

Welcome to round 7 of Ask a Geek Feminist! How it works: if you've got a question you think a geek feminist could answer, post a comment in reply to this post. (Comments will not be publicly visible.) about a week from now I'll distribute questions to my co-bloggers and they can make a post … Continue reading

How To Exclude Women Without Really Trying

An earlier version of this post appears on Tim's blog. Excluding by inclusion This year's "Future of Haskell" discussion, which traditionally ends the annual Haskell Symposium, stumbled into the question of gender equity, via the perennial question of how to increase the number of Haskell … Continue reading

Ask a Geek Feminist, round 6

Welcome to round 6 of Ask a Geek Feminist! How it works: if you've got a question you think a geek feminist could answer, post a comment in reply to this post. (Comments will not be publicly visible.) about a week from now I'll distribute questions to my co-bloggers and they can make a post … Continue reading

Re-post: “Why don’t you just hit him?”

During the December/January slowdown, Geek Feminism is re-publishing some of our highlights from earlier in the year. This post originally appeared on December 7, 2010. Warning: this post and links from it discuss both harassment and violence, imagined and real. Valerie has had a lot of … Continue reading