Posts tagged ‘rape’

I was cynical about Wikipedia’s openness to minority views in the comments of a previous post, I’m a woman, and I’ve edited Wikipedia. Based on past experience as a former, obsessive Wikipedia editor several years ...

This is a guest post by Jacinta Richardson. Jacinta runs Perl Training Australia and is a strong supporter of making IT more friendly to everyone. This is an edited version of a mailing list post. ...

Donna Benjamin is trying to raise money to get The National Library of Australia to digitise The Dawn, Louisa Lawson’s Australian journal for women from the nineteenth century. Joseph Reagle has posted the introduction to ...

Cookie of the Week* is an occasional series highlighting action in the geek community to fight sexism, in order to show that fighting sexism is possible and happening. A cookie to mjg59 (who is a ...

In our linkspam, you may have seen the post “Why I’m Not Speaking at PAX East 2011.” If you haven’t, here’s an excerpt: A couple of months ago, I got asked to be on a ...

Programming suggestions for WisCon, the feminist scifi convention, close tomorrow, Friday, 28 January. Anyone can submit an idea; just create a login. A recent IBM infomercial highlights the role of Patricia McHugh, designer of the ...

Trigger warning: this post describes and discusses harassment and threats. Sady Doyle writes on Tiger Beatdown: When feminist women reach a certain critical mass of readership or influence, then mass negative exposure and harassment invariably ...