Posts tagged ‘race’
2011.05.11 Linkspamming the night away (11th May, 2011) (8)
May 13 in Boston: A project-driven introduction to Python for women and their friends (unfortunately now gone to “waiting list only” status). An open letter to the Australian SF community: However, the venue staging was ...
Full Story »2011.04.08 BGG (Black Girl Gamer)–LFG, PST! (7)
Cori Roberts is founder of Gameinatrix.com and remaining founding member of Gamer Girls Radio, and has been involved in gaming media for over 8 years. She’s currently obsessed with the MMO Fallen Earth and anything ...
Full Story »2011.04.07 She was only appointed because she’s a linkspam (8th April, 2011) (6)
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 ...
Full Story »2011.01.05 More linkspam than sense (6th January, 2011) (4)
Want to do some background reading in 2011? Check A Year of Feminist Classics. January’s books are A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollestonecraft) and So Long a Letter (Mariama Ba) The Intrepid ...
Full Story »2010.11.29 White, male startup companies get funding for being white and male. (9)
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 ...
Full Story »2010.11.22 Drupal Voices 100: Jack Aponte on Diversity, Power and Privilege in Open Source Communities (4)
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. ...
Full Story »2010.08.24 The Myth of White Male Geek Rationality (23)
This post was originally published at Restructure! People who consider themselves fully rational individuals are ignorant about basic psychology and their own minds. It is easy for white men in science, technology, engineering, and math ...
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