Posts tagged ‘Google’

Cross-posted at From Austin to A&M. Today is International Women’s Day. A day that is dedicated to ending oppression against women, achieving gender equality, and celebrating women and their achievements. For feminists, IWD should also ...

I knew that someone posted on this blog discussing what requirements a feminist-informed social network would have. Turns out it was me. A year on, and due to discussions around Google+, I think I have some positive requirements.

Want to remind the vast majority of women, especially breast cancer patients and survivors, that they aren’t sexy and compliant enough for your playground? Start a “save the tits” campaign today!

Links for you! Is Wikipedia more or less gender-balanced than Encyclopædia Britannica? Is outing powerful tech figures OK? And how to praise girls.

Technology protest isn’t just about “leave if you don’t like it”. What services do you stick with and protest about? Which ones have you left/not signed up for despite temptation?

Links discussing pseudonyms, Google+ suspensions, Google’s reasoning and more.

Black and WTF: photographs of suffragettes. In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera to covertly photograph suffragettes. A bit of an oldie, but relevant to our recent Google+ discussions: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ...