Posts tagged ‘feminism 101’

This is not one of those entries I am thrilled in my soul to have to write, but here’s why “hit him!” is not a solution for everyone and definitely does not replace the need for people with authority to take a stand against harassment.

These are Ask a Geek Feminist questions for our readers. They’re not the same question, but I put them together because they’re related. If you want to distinguish them in comments, call them Q1 and ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers: Outside of being a measurement for the presence of oppression, why is diversity a good thing? In a post several weeks ago a geek ...

Welcome to round 5 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 ...

Welcome to round 4 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 ...

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 4th October 2010. This is an Ask ...

Warning: this post and links from it discuss both harassment and violence, imagined and real. Valerie has had a lot of comments and private email in response to her conference anti-harassment policy suggesting that a ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, I’m reposting some of my writing from earlier in 2010, for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on the 3rd April 2010. This post ...

This is a 101 post and all of the links here are fairly well known to ‘net feminists, but Noirin being assaulted has caused newcomers to wonder what they can do to help create a ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: This a “what should we do” question, but a fairly specific one. Recent discussions, particularly Restore meritocracy in CS using an obscure functional language , have left ...

This is a guest post by Jessica Hamrick. Jessica Hamrick is a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pursuing a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a bent towards artificial intelligence. She is is ...

Welcome to round 3 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 ...

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 ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question. This question may seem very 101 but I have yet been able to find or formulate a good response to a comment I recently received from another ...

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 ...

Welcome to round 2 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 ...