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Posts tagged ‘lgbt’

2011.09.06   Enough of this linkspamming nonsense (7th September, 2011)   (10)

Links for you! Is Wikipedia more or less gender-balanced than Encyclopædia Britannica? Is outing powerful tech figures OK? And how to praise girls.

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2011.08.31   A merry linkspamming band (1st September, 2011)   (1)

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

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2010.12.30   A linkspam of startling elegance (31st December, 2010)   (2)

Activist burnout: Dan Choi, an activist working to end DADT (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, US miliitary policy against openly lesbian, gay or bi people serving), made his burnout and hospitalisation public: I did not initially ...

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2010.10.01   Queer geeks, femininity and gender presentation   (13)

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. Here’s another clothing question, although I suppose that it could be expanded to gendered behavior in general. I’ve read geek women (on this site ...

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2010.01.27   On LambdaFail, women writing m/m erotica, and the queerness and/or misogyny of slash fandom   (15)

This won’t be news to anyone who moves in fannish meta circles, but I thought it warranted a post for those who might not have encountered the discussion before now. Back in September, the Lambda ...

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2009.10.11   National Coming Out Day: LGBTQ geeks   (20)

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 ...

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2009.10.10   Yes, there are women in gaming… and some of them have Y chromosomes   (7)

Rachel Walmsley is the head of documentation for Dreamwidth Studios. She’s also a geek, a gamer, and a transwoman. Hi, I’m Rachel, also known as rho, and I am — amongst many other things — ...

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