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Posts tagged ‘neurodiversity’

2010.12.05   Quick hit: don’t blame autism dammit   (9)

Marissa Lingen writes on the highly disturbing but very very common theme of explaining harassment and abuse as inevitable results of people with autism spectrum conditions participating in geek or online communities: Somebody conflated predatory ...

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2010.11.09   Linkspamming into a brick wall (9th November, 2010)   (10)

(Warning: intersectionality problems.) Feminism is no longer about sexism at all: It’s fascinating the extent to which women have been shamed out of even claiming a movement to address sexism. We just aren’t allowed to ...

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2010.11.01   Recruiting youth to our linkspamming lifestyle (2nd November, 2010)   (9)

Trying to do it mostly right most of the time: The Border House‘s rho interviews Failbetter Games’s Alexis Kennedy, primary writer for Echo Bazaar, about the game’s approach to diversity, sexism and racism in a ...

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2010.04.20   Death by a thousand links (20th April, 2010)   (6)

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” ...

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2009.08.26   Quick hit: LWN discussion on sexism, social skills, and autism spectrum disorders   (3)

As I mentioned in the link roundup, the LWN thread on the Free Software Foundation’s women in Free Software mini-summit will burn your sanity points. But there’s an interesting comment thread involving Matthew Garrett (mjg59) ...

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2009.08.19   Quick hit: Anna Martelli Ravenscroft on neurodiversity 101 and feminism 101   (5)

Anna Martelli Ravenscroft writes On trust and diversity, some excerpts follow: I have , otoh, experienced that sense of mistrust – not about males -but more often about women, and mostly, female neurotypicals ... What ...

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