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Engendering Change? Gender Advocacy in Open Source | Culture Digitally : A response to a recent New Media & Society article, “‘Patches don’t have gender’: What is not open in open source software”, by Dawn Nafus.
@kierstenwhite : On gender in Pixar’s Brave.
TV Tropes Restores Rape Tropes, but Disturbing Questions Remain | The Mary Sue : A summary of the recent goings ons with the Rape Tropes pages at TV Tropes.
[Trigger warning] The R Word | The Escapist : A very personal story about the impact of a word.
GF contributor brainwane gave a keynote at Open Source Bridge on “Be Bold: An Origin Story”, about her childhood and family experiences and how they contributed to her open source work. You can read the text of the talk, or view the video footage.
Just a Little Lovin’ 2012 | Gaming As Women : A report from the Scandinavian larp “Just a Little Lovin’”, about when AIDS hit NYC in the early 80s. “The game managed to not only attract experienced LARPers, but also HIV activists, HIV-positive people, LGBT activists, and cultural workers from all over the world.”
Know Your Lore: What exactly is up with women in Warcraft lore? | joystiq : it’s not that women don’t exist in the Warcraft universe — they’re all over the place, honestly. It’s that there is only a handful worth of them that have enough character development and story to warrant dedicating a column to them. To which I say wait a minute, what is up with that?
Let’s get louder : Python devs pledge to only attend conferences with anti-harrassment and anti-discrimination policies

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Ada Lovelace Day, the once a year blogswarm highlighting women in technology will be held on October 7 (unlike the previous two years when it was held in March).
More keynoters in the open source space: Runa Bhattacharjee and Lydia Pintscher are two of the three keynotes for conf.kde.in 2011.
“My mom has a PhD in Math” – fighting back against gendered advertising.
ï»¿@ï»¿victoriajanssen tweets:ï»¿ï»¿ï»¿Â ”ï»¿FIVE of the SIX Nebula nominations for novel were written by WOMEN!!!” as well as 4 women nominees for short story. (via @skud)
Top Secret Rosies is a documentary made last year about the computers of WWII, “when computers were human and women were underestimated.”
Hillary Rosner writes about learning that she really did like science after all.

One year I took an introductory genetics class (â€œgenes for jocksâ€), just to confirm that science still sucked, and when I earned a C+ I retreated, satisfied, to the comfort of literature, politics, and cultural theory.

And then a strange thing happened. Several years into my journalism career, I became captivated by stories about the environment. I couldnâ€™t read enough of them.

Cordelia Fine of “Delusions of Gender” fame writes about sexist speeches by former Harvard Presidents, and straw-feminists [trigger warning for discussion of essentialism].

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