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Posts tagged ‘kathy sierra’

2011.08.31   Quick hit: Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating   (7)

[Trigger warning for harassment, threatening violence against women] A few years ago, a wonderful woman and prominent tech blogger named Kathy Sierra was driven offline because the the readers of a hate website called MeanKids ...

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2010.03.05   A crisis of linkspam proportions (5th March, 2010)   (1)

Lifehacker introduces MacGyver of the Day: Electronics Hacker Jeri Ellsworth: “chip maker, race car builder, pin ball machine maker, blowing-stuff-up’er…” David Barnes is keen to remind us of the fabulous stuff Kathy Sierra wrote for ...

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2009.08.19   Where are all the men bloggers?   (96)

When I look around my Google Reader feeds, I see so many insightful, intelligent political and technical blogs by women, but hardly any by men. For instance, I read Shakesville every day for US and ...

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2009.08.19   Why we document   (8)

A comment over on the Geek Feminism wiki asked whether we aren’t damaging the community by documenting sexism. I don’t want to get too 101 on our fine blog, but I do want to talk ...

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2009.08.17   George Sodini, Montreal, Debian   (8)

In cereta’s words, “Oh yes, I’m going there.” Trigger warning. After George Sodini went on a misogynist shooting spree, killing three women, a lot of people were making comparisons to the Virginia Tech or Columbine ...

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