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Shades of Milk & Linkspam (6 July 2015)

Shades of Milk & Linkspam (6 July 2015)

Blogging for Geek Feminism, a short history | puzzling.org: Long-time contributor Mary has also released the code that powers the linkspam. [Content Warning: Cissexist language of the “women = vagina” variety] GynePunk, the cyborg witches of DIY gynecology | Makery: “The Catalan collective GynePunk wants to decolonize the female body. To this end, it is developing first aid gynecological tools,…

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GF classifieds (July, August, and September 2015)

This is another round of Geek feminism classifieds. If you’re looking to hire women, find some people to participate in your study, find female speakers, or just want some like-minded folk to join your open source project, this is the thread for you! Here’s how it works: Geeky subjects only. We take a wide view of geekdom, but if your thing isn’t related to an obviously geeky topic, you’ll…

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Feel Like Making Linkspam (26 June 2015)

Feel Like Making Linkspam (26 June 2015)

How NASA Broke The Gender Barrier In STEM | Fast Company (June 23): “The convergence of open data and female leadership has the potential to challenge traditional decision making across sectors and facilitate more data-driven and collaborative approaches in creating new ventures and solving problems. Datanauts was born out of NASA’s open-data priorities as a means to bring more women to the…

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All this and linkspam too (23 June 2015)

All this and linkspam too (23 June 2015)

Women in Animation Offers Dismal Stats on Current State of Affairs, Proposes Paths towards Progress | Women and Hollywood: “Though a study suggested that women make up the majority of students at animation programs today, research compiled by the Animation Guild note that female creatives total only 20% of the workforce. Women make up a scant 10% of animation directors and producers, 17% of…

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Consider the linkspams, how they grow (16 June 2015)

Consider the linkspams, how they grow (16 June 2015)

The unseen women scientists behind Tim Hunt’s Nobel prize | The Guardian: “It is obvious that his comments were sexist, but few people could recognise the names or faces of the women he has so thoughtlessly brushed aside. Even in his inadequate apology, he neglected to mention any women scientists who have impressed him during his career, choosing instead to justify himself with unsolicited…

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Linkspams are not the only fruit (12 June 2015)

Linkspams are not the only fruit (12 June 2015)

Maria Klawe Won’t Let CS Remain a Boys’ Club, and other schools are going to try to follow the HMC model | Computing Education Blog: “I bet that the broad-based support among faculty in the department had more to do with change at HMC than any top-down commitment.” On Recruiting, Inclusiveness, and Crafting Better Job Descriptions | Safari Blog: “The results from those simple changes were…

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Mad Link, Fury Spam (9 June 2015)

Mad Link, Fury Spam (9 June 2015)

Supreme Court Overturns Conviction in Online Threats Case, Citing Intent | The New York Times (June 1): “The Supreme Court on Monday made it harder to prosecute people for threats made on Facebook and other social media, reversing the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who directed brutally violent language against his estranged wife.Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, said…

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Book Club: Thought experiments around privilege, and more Trade Me thoughts

Apologies for getting this up late; I’ve been travelling back from WisCon (where I also praised Trade Me at length!). So as you saw in my April post announcing Courtney Milan’s contemporary romance novel Trade Me as a GF book club topic, I love this book for multiple reasons. From here on out I’ll be indulging in spoilers, so, more after the jump! (more…)

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Harriet the Linkspam (1 June 2015)

Harriet the Linkspam (1 June 2015)

All the women I know in video games are tired | Boing Boing (May 29): “For the most part, I still have the same job that I have always had (not that I’m not proud of the growth I’ve had within it over the years). For my friends, the Twine revolutionaries and the vocal Tweeters and the other writers, a great act of deception has occurred: We’ve been in the New York Times and been invited to…

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We Built This Linkspam on Rock and Roll (28 May 2015)

We Built This Linkspam on Rock and Roll (28 May 2015)

(CW: rape) A Song of Ice and Fire has a rape problem. | tafkar: “George R. R. Martin uses nameless women’s bodies as character development for male antagonists in A Song of Ice and Fire. Rape victims serve as props and set decoration to illustrate a man’s depravity. Social class does not protect them. The only raped women who tell us their tales, either directly through inner monologue or by…

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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Linkspam (26 May 2015)

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Linkspam (26 May 2015)

Companies Drain Women’s Ambition After Only 2 Years | HBR (May 18): “But more experienced workers answered very differently. … Women’s sense that their supervisors supported than career goals was 20 points lower; men’s was just 3 points lower.What’s not happening are discussions of goals, career strategies, job satisfaction, overall trajectory and—especially—the simple giving of real…

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Quick Hit: New Taylor Swift fanvid "Pipeline" calls out tech industry on diversity hypocrisy

Quick Hit: New Taylor Swift fanvid “Pipeline” calls out tech industry on diversity hypocrisy

As Julie Pagano put it: “So many ‘diversity in tech’ efforts are about getting young women into the pipeline. Ignore the fact that there’s a meat grinder at the end.” So I’ve made a new fanvid (a type of video art piece): “Pipeline”. It’s a little over 3 minutes long and cuts together about 50 different sources over Taylor Swift’s song “Blank Space”. Specifically, this fanvid uses clips from…

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I am their fury, I am their patience, I am their Linkspam (22 May 2015)

I am their fury, I am their patience, I am their Linkspam (22 May 2015)

I had a culture column at WIRED. And then I didn’t. Here’s what happened. | monica byrne (May 19): “I’ve talked with other writers who’ve had experiences with Wired. My experience is not unique. So as far as I can tell, they don’t cover the future. They produce a white male fantasy of the future. Which isn’t surprising.” The Dehumanizing Myth of the Meritocracy by Coraline Ada Ehmke | Model View…

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What if free and open source software were more like fandom?

What if free software & open source were more like fandom?

This is the second of a two-part post about feminism and the philosophies and vocabularies of “open stuff” (fandom, open source, etc.). Part I is at Crooked Timber, here, and I suggest you read that first. Recently I was thinking about abstractions we open source software folks might borrow from fandom, particularly the online world of fan fiction and fanvids. I mean, I am already a rather…

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Linkspam, Will Robinson! Linkspam! (19 May 2015)

Linkspam, Will Robinson! Linkspam! (19 May 2015)

Where Does Your Pipeline Lead? | Life as I Know It: “If you’re thinking about getting into the tech industry or wondering how to stay in the tech industry in the face of pervasive toxic environments, I encourage you to broaden your horizons about what ‘being in tech’ can look like. What is your goal? If you want to use technology to make a better life for yourself, think carefully about the…

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Quick Hit: The Word "Girl" in "Supergirl"

CBS has just released a “first look” teaser for the new Supergirl TV show, coming this fall. I’ve always frowned at the name “Supergirl” for an adult woman, finding it infantilizing. The teaser tries to address this:

News announcer on television: “Media Magnate Cat Grant, of National City’s new female hero: Supergirl.” (news channel displays “#Supergirl”)

Kara Danvers: “We can’t name her that.”

C…

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In The Hall Of The Mountain Linkspam (15 May 2015)

In The Hall Of The Mountain Linkspam (15 May 2015)

Sam Maggs urges girls to geek out sans apology | q | CBC Radio (May 13): “The Mary Sue editor and writer joins Shad to share her rallying cry to fellow nerd girls and explain why she felt a woman-centric primer — covering everything from online harassment to obscure terminology — was badly needed.”

Reporting, Reviewing, And Responding To Harassment on Twitter: Infographic | WAM! (May 13): See…