- Check out, and contribute to, Flickr’s Women in Tech group, photos of women in technology speaking at conferences or doing techy things. (Also check out The New Feminine for a little subversion of what “feminine” seems to mean on Flickr.)
- Shelby Knox explores feminism and privilege in I am a Feminist But… That Comes With Responsibility
- Brianna Laugher talks about privilege among other issues in Wikipedia editing.
- Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley?: the New York Times reports on sexism and harassment among tech entrepreneurs.
- FailFandom to Hugo Awards: Pity? I don’t think so Yonmei reviews the improved presence of women in this year’s Hugo shortlists following discussion from last year.
- In defense of girl groups: a short reddit entry on why women might band together to form their own video gaming guilds and similar.
- Kowalski muses on how characters with autistic traits are only written as well-rounded if they aren’t in fact specifically diagnosed and goes on to recommend Peter Bagge’s Hate! comics.
- “Confessional†compositions and Dudes: tigtog rounds up the discussion round the feminist-o-sphere about the way in which women’s music careers are reduced to being “confessional” (see also the Quick hit).
- Joan Brady reviews Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos and discovers that arithmetic doesn’t come naturally at all.
- Boys ‘prefer cars from early on’: In non-news, researchers and reporters continue to talk past each other. Children, even very young children, prefer toys of the types that they have already been exposed to. Gender essentialism continues triumphant and wrong.
- DC Women’s Entrepreneurship Examiner has Trends in women’s entrepreneurship and women’s leadership – and how it affects you: statistics on women's entrepreneurship & leadership.
- Casting rumours for an Ada Lovelace biopic: The World’s First Computer Programmer Will Be Played By Zooey Deschanel
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Zooey Deschanel?! Please no. Please, no. I’m so upset I can’t even come up with anything more coherent than that.
http://critical-hits.com/2010/04/20/save-vs-misogyny-an-open-letter-to-gen-cons-event-organizers/
GenCon has a programming track for non-gamer spouses called “Activities for the Better Half” which is weird but ok, whatevs. This year the graphic in the program is a ball and chain. Uh-huh.
Shades of http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/RubyFringe_offers_girlfriend_daycare by the sounds of it. I don’t know what’s so hard about making it non-cutesy-sexist. It’s “partners’ programme” or whatever.
You’d think! Origins has a similar track, and the year I went the bus to the yarn store was part of that track, but full of women who. . .shock, are gamers. We just happen to also like other things. At least with that one I think it was referred to as the “Spouse Track” and didn’t have any insulting graphics.
Utterly brilliant girl geek moment. Kiwi film student graduates as a stormtrooper http://bit.ly/cx7nvr
http://geekgirlsrule.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/geek-girls-rule-126-superheroes-are-real/
Not exactly feminist related, but definitely geek related. The Make-A-Wish foundation made a boy’s wish to be a superhero come true for a day. My blog entry on it has the link to the Seattle Times article, AND youtube video of the event.
You’ll cry.