Posts tagged ‘guest post’

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.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is E. Lucy Braun, who published 180 articles in 20 journals during her career, but is perhaps most widely remembered for her 1950 book Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is E. Lucy Braun, who published 180 articles in 20 journals during her career, but is perhaps most widely remembered for her 1950 book Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America.

Here’s the thing, boys and girls: I don’t get this crap anywhere else I choose to invest my time. This is very much about atheism. It’s also about the more general skeptical community, of course, but atheism is a big part of that and getting bigger.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Annie Jump Cannon, luminary in astronomical research and stellar classification.

Have you ever been watching a movie/TV show or reading a book/magazine article and all of a sudden been confronted with a reminder that you (a lady) are not the target audience?

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are Moran Paldi, game designer; Leena van Deventer, gaming writing; and Catriona Wimberley, medical physics student.

I recently found a means of quiet rebellion, not a revolution, mind you, but a personal epiphany: Ladies Dungeons & Dragons night.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Audrey Tang, creator of Pugs, the first comprehensive implementation of Perl 6.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are historical scientist Mary Whiton Calkins and living scientist Elizabeth Spelke, both of whom have done work to debunk the Variability Hypothesis.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Anne Street, MIT alumni, engineer, manager, and president of the MIT alumni association.

Trigger warning for body shame and eating disorders.

I’ve grown up through both geek and jock culture and they’re both the same. Dominated by men, a thin varnish over pervasive misogyny. The only difference is where the jocks know the girls have eating disorders, but don’t care; the geeks genuinely think that this part of the world cannot touch them.

Even here at Geek Feminism there seems to be people searching for community. We are coming together for a sense of shared experience. So I am giving some unsolicited advice, much like I did on that conference call. If you are feeling isolated, find an organization with a purpose you can support. Attend, volunteer, get involved.

Trigger warning for quoted rape threats.

To date, the most interesting question about why the campaign against rape pages on Facebook is ‘Do you think Facebook will change its policies as a result of this campaign?’ Jane Osmond found herself saying ‘yes’.