Posts tagged ‘movies’

Trigger warning Assange’s Account Looks Like Accusers’ Account: Assange’s own attorney now effectively concedes that was, at best, what happened here: His victims gave subsequent consent to sexual activity for which explicit consent was neither ...

Adelaide, Australia: 15th International Conference for Women Engineers and Scientists: The International Conference for Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) has been held every three years since 1964 and provides an important forum for the exchange ...

Words and Offense: Of course slurs are still bad… Offense is just not the reason why. Systemic oppression, concept association and a phenomenon known as hostile tagging (where the phrase either tags a person as ...

Programming suggestions for WisCon, the feminist scifi convention, close tomorrow, Friday, 28 January. Anyone can submit an idea; just create a login. A recent IBM infomercial highlights the role of Patricia McHugh, designer of the ...

Chemistry and danger and pretty colours! All the ingredients of the perfect geek hobby. Have you seen Lauredhel’s series on soapmaking? The Setup, The Making, The Day After, Finis. She also runs a community for ...

Our regular commenter Jenni wants to share a new geek feminist group blog she’s writing for: Bad Reputation. From the first post: Our strapline is a feminist pop culture adventure. We’re named after a Joan ...

On the previous post, I led with an intro about The Social Network: I feel odd blogging about a movie I haven’t seen, I want to get that out of the way. But a lot ...

I feel odd blogging about a movie I haven’t seen, I want to get that out of the way. But a lot of women I trust are telling me that the movie The Social Network ...

The Haecken miniconf at linux.conf.au (January in Brisbane, Australia) has extended their Call for Papers until October 22. Sir, Can You Help Me With This?: a transman comments on becoming a goto guy: This is ...

Here’s an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers (questions still being taken): Reading Rudy Simone’s Aspergirls prompted me to crystallise this question: where are the female role models for young geek women? I’m ...

Linda Holmes talks about ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Versus The Unfortunate Tendency To Review The Audience. Choice quote: Here’s what I’m saying: I’m a woman, I’m in my late thirties, I can’t handle first-person shooters, I’m afraid ...

Check out, and contribute to, Flickr’s Women in Tech group, photos of women in technology speaking at conferences or doing techy things. (Also check out The New Feminine for a little subversion of what “feminine” ...

Scholarships and grants: The GNOME Foundation have opened applications for travel grants to their GUADEC conference. Applications close April 27, 2009, 19:00 UTC (not mentioned on that page) The ESA is offering scholarships for women ...

Thanks for your Ask a Geek Feminist questions. There are many many questions left, and selected questions will be appearing twice a week for quite a while for our commenters to have input into. Here’s ...

Everyone knows Hollywood isn’t so good at depicting women, especially in blockbuster films. This is why we have the Bechdel test. But while I’ve seen a lot of good articles on the subject, Why Strong ...

This thread is open for geek feminist introductions, speculations, reminiscences and chatter. Please see our commenting policy guidelines. Conversational seed, in case you need one: in my recent sewing, software packaging, and lantern-making crafty/make-y/learn-y binge, ...