Posts tagged ‘privilege’

Tim Chevalier has just moved over the Male Programmer Privilege Checklist to the Geek Feminism wiki so that everyone can maintain it.

Color Lines gives us The Ultimate 21st Century People of Color Sci-Fi List It seems that when it comes to sci-fi, cultural experiences of the melanin-inclined are merely reserved for exotic backdrop (ahem, “Stargate”) and ...

I’m going to admit, I haven’t played Mass Effect 2, but I’ve definitely been hearing good things about playing the main character as a woman. There’s lots of good reasons your leading lady may be ...

Grants to attend AppSec USA 2011: For the first time, the OWASP Foundation is gathering sponsors for a program to increase the participation of women in the field of application security. The grants are for ...

Google Summer of Code applications are open, closing this week (Friday April 8). Check our project advertisements and application tips. Google Announces HITB2011AMS Conference Grant for Women Hackers: This grant is set up to enable ...

If you’re not a gamer, perhaps you haven’t seen this post entitled Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The Straight Male Gamer which complains about the romance options in Dragon Age II. [Warning: minor spoilers for ...

This is a guest post from Christine Cheng. She is a research fellow in politics at Exeter College, University of Oxford. In a previous life, she studied systems design engineering and was student government president ...

Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Why are male IT geeks less successful in attracting women than other males, on average? Why are there few women in IT? Among male geeks, a popular explanation ...

In anticipation of a December/January slowdown, I’m reposting some of my writing from 2010, for the benefit of new (and nostalgic!) readers. This piece originally appeared on the 20th June 2010. I’ve been chewing over ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! I have been a geek for most of my life. However, my geek identity is rarely recognized in meatspace interactions, probably because I am female. You would expect ...

From Diagrams that changed the world (BBC News): One of the first to use the visual world to navigate numbers was Florence Nightingale. Although better known for her contributions to nursing, her greatest achievements were ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! When top technology venture capitalist John Doerr decides which startup company to invest in, he consciously and deliberately chooses white males over women and racial minorities: “That correlates ...

Neville Park is a queer mixie nerd in Toronto. This post originally appeared at Wild Unicorn Herd. An interview with Palante Tech’s Jack Aponte (a. k. a. Angry Brown Butch) on, well, diversity in Drupal. ...

This is cross-posted at Restructure! I demonstrated an aptitude for computers when I was a young girl, but I didn’t have home Internet access until I graduated from high school. I blame the Patriarchy, partly. ...

[Trigger Warning: Links marked with [TW] discuss rape apologia] [TW]Kirby Bits has thrown down the gauntlet (the one with the middle finger extended) in response to Penny Arcade profiteering via merchandise from the “Dickwolves” incident: ...