Posts tagged ‘racism’

Linkspammed today: is geek feminism feminist enough, pronoun swap the Internet, and racism in Silicon Valley.

A skeptic finds menstrual synchrony evidence unconvincing, Elizabeth Bear doesn’t think the technological singularity is all that, men get more from professional networking, and more.

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 ...

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 ...

Counting Colored Cash: there’s plenty of successful media with central characters of color, there’s plenty of whitewashed/all-white media that flops. So why the myth that all-white/whitewashing is just good business? Trigger warning Resistance Is Useful: ...

Betsy Leondar-Wright and ana australiana write about the impenetrability of middle-class activism to working class people, and about how the sidelining of middle-class subcultures isn’t equivalent to systemic oppression: It’s not “them” — it’s us!, ...

Trigger Warning: This post deals with the École Polytechnique massacre and violence against women.

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 ...

A Very Special Episode of Grey Areas: Privilege Denying Dude Edition: In social justice, not all tactics that are divisive are effective, but all tactics that are effective are divisive. That doesn’t mean we should ...

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 ...

The Sims Just Did This Totally Racist Thing: In the newest town, there is a black family with a single mom of two sons who has worked her way up by being a cook… I’d ...

Her Universe will be offering licensed Star Wars gear specifically for female fans, who thus far have been a tad under-served as a market. See the announcement. Biella Coleman comments on Clay Shirky and WYNC ...

Clara Raubertas has a wrap-up of the women-in-Free-Software focussed talks and events at the Free Software Foundation’s LibrePlanet 2010. Richie is highly critical of an look-a-unicorn-in-wargaming entry at Bell of Lost Souls and goes on ...

“Manolith” has a list of 12 hottest geek girls. I think you can gather from the name of the site how this list is meant to go, but I was surprised to find that the ...