- Mentoring in Open Source communities: What works, what doesn’t? by Esther Schindler over on ITWorld.com features thoughts from Red Hat’s Mel Chua, Dreamwidth’s Denise Paolucci, and Google’s Leslie Hawthorn (among others).
- toft has a great post on geeky ladies in the 40s.
- dira posts about women’s writing, fan fiction, and Internet porn as vernacular
- Karen Healey in defense of cheerleaders; something to remember about “popular girls” in general, I think
- This month’s Cinema Journal has an issue on media fandom and vidding
- Via Johanna at Comics Worth Reading, a public lecture about Wonder Woman as fetish object, crackpot fever dream, and feminist icon in Ashland, VA on October 28th.
- Guy Adams, publisher of the book of interviews with all-men horror authors, has posted an apology. (Via Cheryl’s Mewsings.) [edit: we had him listed as the editor originally. For more info see the comment below]
- Regina McMenomy is looking for girl gamers to interview for her research. She’s looking particularly for those around the Portland, OR area, but is open to the idea of phone/skype interviews: http://www.game-on-girl.com/
- Carla Schroder on the Linux Today blog: The Linux Foundation’s “Community” doesn’t look very community
- Chicks Dig Time-Lords – a celebration of Doctor Who by the women who love it, being published in March 2010 and available for pre-order.
- Robogals, a programme bringing robotics to school-aged girls in Melbourne, Australia and London, UK (they’ve been round for a while, but the link seems to be doing the rounds)
Tag Archives: horror
Her Links Rose Up Forever (18th September, 2009)
- Horror wants women to scream, but not to talk – The British Fantasy Association interviews 16 horror writers. None of them women.
- Overview of English grammar by Suzette Haden Elgin. 11 post series and still going strong. Here’s the adverb chapter!
- James Vasile, from the Software Freedom Law Center, has founded a planet (blog aggregator) for women in Free Software. Instructions on emailing James to add your blog are on the right-hand sidebar of that page (via Stormy Peters on the gnome-women list).
- Daylight Atheism has a discussion of Atheism, Race and Gender following on from Greta Christina’s posts linked previously (via Erigami in comments)
- Harriet Jacobs of Fugitivus is collecting stories of men standing against misogyny at Stuff What Boys Can Do. Happy endings not necessarily expected, just real stories of male allies standing up for what they believe in.
- Bruce Byfield at Datamation.com writes about Sexism: Open Source Software’s Dirty Little Secret (sanity warning re: comment thread, however; it’s deja vu all over again.)
- On being a nonprofit (and a girl) at TechCrunch 50