Posts tagged ‘guest post’

Guest blogger Courtney Stanton explains how she organized a game developer conference with 50% women speakers. Stanton is a project manager for a video game company in Boston, and long-time feminist scourge of the computer ...

“When I read WotC’s article what I saw was Jon Schindehette going through one of the early cycles of trying to understand sexism. (…) I wish he had gotten further along before he wrote a public article… but he has my empathy as to why getting there takes time.”

Five-and-a-half year old Maya has decided she doesn’t like cars because she wants people to like her. Her mom wants to hear from geek women who like robots, grand adventures and still have friends and wear pink and go dancing.

When Chad Whitacre announced that he’d just released Testosterone, “the manly testing interface for Python,” a friend of his called him out, asking “what, exactly, makes it manly?” After a brief, polite back-and fourth, Whitacre slept on it, and apologized.

I think geek sexuality is an awesome thing. But geeks also are prone to weird social thinking, some of it a reaction to the ungeeky mainstream, some of it their very own invention.  Here’s some common misconceptions that can fuck up geek sex.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Esther Orozco, cell biologist, winner of the 1997 Pasteur medal, and a 2006 laureate of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are Joanmarie Diggs, self-taught programmer and contributor to Orca; Máirín Duffy, interaction designer at Red Hat; Jessica McKellar, organiser of the Boston Python Workshops; and Stormy Peters, the Head of Developer Engagement at Mozilla.