Posts tagged ‘photos’

In the context of geek events, which are usually private and which can therefore impose additional restrictions on behaviour as a condition of entry, that restrictions on photography could prevent some harassment. Behaviours around photographs makes geek events hostile to some participants, especially women.

Black and WTF: photographs of suffragettes. In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera to covertly photograph suffragettes. A bit of an oldie, but relevant to our recent Google+ discussions: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ...

I said this on chat: Mary: There should be some kind of photoessay on that. Mary: Kids watching their mothers do complicated geeky stuff. Sure, why not, let’s do that. You have a fortnight, until ...

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men: If white, male elites started saying, I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white ...

From comments on Women in science: contrary to popular belief, some of us are actually alive!, Lindsey has started a Flickr group for “This is what a computer scientist looks like”. The group itself has ...

This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: When choosing pictures for a conference website from the event held the previous year we have specifically looked for photos that happen to include women, to the ...

This is a guest post by Lindsey Kuper. Lindsey Kuper does math and code and music and splatters it unceremoniously all over the Internet. This post originally appeared at her blog and was linked from ...

Welcome to a special round of Ask a Geek Feminist! There are a few photographers/recorders or event organisers who want to ask us questions about their policies or practices, and don’t feel their questions fit ...

We’re starting to collect some examples of photography/recording harassment experiences (still open , and some of the kinds of problems people mention there and elsewhere are: photography/recording conducted in a way that is designed to ...

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 ...

This is an anecdote gathering exercise, hopefully creating an opportunity for discussion around photography at geek events. At present, the confererence anti-harassment policy (which, as a reminder, is designed to be edited to be made ...

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” ...

The narratives will come. Tomorrow, gentle readers. Till then, a picspam: Angie Byron playing with Sridhar’s OLPC at the networking event at the Opera House. Angela’s picture! New Zealand Wool, maybe with some possum in ...