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• A tool to help fix sexism in tech: The Inclusive Team Tests.
  

  The Inclusive Team Tests are a collection of tests which can be used to roughly determine how inclusive a team is of a particular group. The level of inclusiveness (or disadvantagement) that a particular group might experience within a certain working environment can be expressed as a score on the test.

• Two women got on this year’s Hugo ballot for best short story: Nancy Fulda for “Movement” and E. Lily Yu for “The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees”.
• Sweden just added the gender-neutral pronoun hen (similar to an English “ze”) to their National Encyclopedia, and the Henerator is a plugin that switches all han (Swedish for “he”) and hon (“she”) to the new pronoun. More info here.
• Title says it all on this one: On Female Characters: This isn’t Highlander. There can be more than one.
• A gaming analogy to explain privilege: Straight White Male, The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.
• Women In Magic, The 2012 Edition: combating sexism at competitive Magic: The Gathering events.
• A large scale link round up on Sexism in Geek Culture, with a look at Comics.

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