Posts tagged ‘lgbt’

Haecken CFP, gay YA, toxic menstruating women, and more.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...