Posts tagged ‘intersectionality’

I am sad, still sad, continually endlessly sad and angry at the way everyone else’s narratives collude to obscure Nina and her life.

Trigger warning for lethal violence against women I picked up Stephen Elliott’s The Adderall Diaries with trepidation, because it’s at least nominally about the Hans Reiser murder trial, and Nina Reiser’s murder fucked me up. ...

Grants to attend AppSec USA 2011: For the first time, the OWASP Foundation is gathering sponsors for a program to increase the participation of women in the field of application security. The grants are for ...

Betsy Leondar-Wright and ana australiana write about the impenetrability of middle-class activism to working class people, and about how the sidelining of middle-class subcultures isn’t equivalent to systemic oppression: It’s not “them” — it’s us!, ...

Say hello to Ms Spam-Spam! We’ve put in a special account for linkspams to make it more clear that linkspams are a group effort here. All the old linkspams are now listed with this account ...

I’m back in school, as some folks have probably already gathered from my microblogging. I’m finishing up a double major in Computer Science and Equity Studies at the University of Toronto, and if all goes ...

Courtney is an MA student studying Victorian science fiction at Texas A&M University. She blogs about feminism, geekery, and academia at From Austin to A&M. This post originally appeared at From Austin to A&M. My ...

Over at Tiger Beatdown, Sady and Amanda take on rock and roll, relating the sexism in rock subcultures to other subcultures and “outsider” groups: AMANDA: I see the same sad sexism in a lot of ...

We’ve talked about Google Summer of Code a few times already this week (see some projects who want our readers to apply, and Terri’s tips on making your application great). Applications are now open and ...

Lucy Connor’s “Diversity at what cost?” and Benjamin Otte’s blog post on equality got me thinking about the backlash against diversity and outreach initiatives in open source. Specifically, I sometimes see arguments that inclusivity is ...

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In the US and many other countries, today is National Coming Out Day. I thought this might be a good chance to talk about the experiences of LGBTQ geeks and how they intersect with the ...

As I mentioned in the link roundup, the LWN thread on the Free Software Foundation’s women in Free Software mini-summit will burn your sanity points. But there’s an interesting comment thread involving Matthew Garrett (mjg59) ...

One of my formative geek experiences was watching Star Trek with my Dad, so when the reboot came out this summer I watched it with a huge mob of friends and a childlike glee. That ...

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft writes On trust and diversity, some excerpts follow: I have , otoh, experienced that sense of mistrust – not about males -but more often about women, and mostly, female neurotypicals ... What ...

Gender gap in pay explained by choice of major Roll call: Women in Python. If you’re a woman who uses Python, go let Pam know! Notes from the DrupalChix panel at DrupalCampLA last weekend A ...