Posts tagged ‘violence against women’

I am sad, still sad, continually endlessly sad and angry at the way everyone else’s narratives collude to obscure Nina and her life.

Trigger warning for lethal violence against women I picked up Stephen Elliott’s The Adderall Diaries with trepidation, because it’s at least nominally about the Hans Reiser murder trial, and Nina Reiser’s murder fucked me up. ...

Trigger warning. Julian Assange and rape allegations: it’s everywhere. See for example our own Liz Henry’s Feminism, Assange rape charges, free speech, and Wikileaks and Leigh Honeywell’s On Consent. There’s link roundups at Hoyden About ...

This is a 101 post and all of the links here are fairly well known to ‘net feminists, but Noirin being assaulted has caused newcomers to wonder what they can do to help create a ...

Warning: this post discusses sexual assault and links to both a survivor account and to hostile comments. Noirin Shirley’s post A hell of a time in which she describes her sexual assault at ApacheCon on ...

We’re a bit late with the link, but the latest Feminist Carnival went up at Undomestic Goddess on December 9. Submissions are open for the next carnival, out December 23. Training bar staff to intervene ...

This post was originally written for my local Women in Science and Engineering chapter’s blog. I’m afraid it’s not my best writing, as I found the experience somewhat upsetting, but I think the day we ...

Something to contribute to: Be counted! A survey of the gender distribution at tech events: annina an9, Persephone Miel, Hanna Wallach and Karen Brennan have launched a site to collect data on gender diversity at ...

Karen Healey reviews Sarah Kuhn’s One Con Glory, a feminist geek girl novella featuring con hijinks including “delightful drunkenness, morning-after amnesia, Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, the beginnings of dealing with some inner demons, and ...

TRIGGER WARNING: this post discusses sexual assault, threats of violence, and actual violence against women. If you link to this post, please include a similar warning. See below for more information on how/why to do ...

Don’t forget that LCA2010 (Wellington NZ, January) has attendee funding programmes, including one for women and other minorities in Open Source development, and applications close this Friday, Oct 2. tigtog highlights a horrendous autism “advocacy” ...

Cake Wrecks posts a hilarious (and of course unfortunate) collection of geeky cakes for girls in honour of GeekDad Carla Schroder has posted the second part of her Linux Today series on sexism in FOSS: ...

Borrowing both the term “quick hit” (ie, short post) and a thought from Lauredhel of Hoyden About Town: I’m a bit bogged-down in contemplating the oft-recurring trope – accepted in so many places as a ...

A comment over on the Geek Feminism wiki asked whether we aren’t damaging the community by documenting sexism. I don’t want to get too 101 on our fine blog, but I do want to talk ...

In cereta’s words, “Oh yes, I’m going there.” Trigger warning. After George Sodini went on a misogynist shooting spree, killing three women, a lot of people were making comparisons to the Virginia Tech or Columbine ...