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The Big Idea: Michelle Sagara – Whatever
New YA book about the *nice* girls, for once.
geekfeminism 
10 days ago by dsalo
Skillcrush
It's... kind of... pink? But the idea isn't bad.
geekfeminism 
27 days ago by dsalo
Binding of Isaac creator: Nintendo rejection shows internal divisions over company's image
So Nintendo will can a game because it's "religious," but not because it's a steaming pile of misogynist shit. ALL-RIGHTY THEN.
geekfeminism 
11 weeks ago by dsalo
For women in business, the squeaky wheel doesn’t get the grease - The Washington Post
"Women don't get raises because they're not assertive enough." No, assertiveness in women negatively impacts their income. It's not women who are acting irrationally!
geekfeminism 
january 2012 by dsalo
curiosity counts - Epic. Little girl’s rant against gendered toys...
"'Cuz the girls want superheroes AND the boys want superheroes!"
geekfeminism 
january 2012 by dsalo
EPBOT: Three Cheers for Little Girl Spock
Her mom: "Who cares if it's a male character? Who cares if none of the other kids at school will have any clue about who Spock is? She wants to be Mr. Spock and I was super proud."
geekfeminism 
december 2011 by dsalo
Getting on with it.
Somebody please tell him to stuff the 'tude and look at the SEVERAL EXISTING bureaux of female-identified speakers.
geekfeminism 
october 2011 by dsalo
Why the QR code is failing (single page view) - iMediaConnection.com
Unremarkable until "Idea Two," which is stunningly crass. Really, guy? Really?
geekfeminism 
october 2011 by dsalo
You’re not so anonymous | Harvard Gazette
Latanya Sweeney is doing amazing CS work aimed at protecting individuals' medical privacy.
855  dataprivacy  hipaa  geekfeminism 
october 2011 by dsalo
Aaron Diaz Explains… | Project : Rooftop
Yet another (but still true and funny) hit at impractical costuming for female superheroes.
geekfeminism 
october 2011 by dsalo
Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified
Not specifically feminist advice, but definitely advice that will help create a woman-friendly coding space.
islandora  opensource  geekfeminism 
july 2011 by dsalo
What is Feminist About Open Access?: A Relational Approach to Copyright in the Academy by Carys Craig, Joseph Turcotte, Rosemary Coombe :: SSRN
Is it a feminist/social-justice issue that access to scholarly information is often walled off by its publishers?
openaccess  590  geekfeminism 
july 2011 by dsalo
Audrey MacLean on Women's Advantage in Technology - NYTimes.com
Pretty sad example of a successful woman with meritocracy blinders. Glad she succeeded; wish she'd use her soapbox better.
geekfeminism 
june 2011 by dsalo
#or11 Yay! on Twitpic
Rebecca Koeser accepting her prize from the Open Repositories 2011 DevCSI challenge.
geekfeminism 
june 2011 by dsalo
#or11 congrats to all! on Twitpic
Congrats to Rebecca Koeser of Emory University, winner of the Microsoft Research-sponsored prize in the DevCSI challenge at Open Repositories 2011 for her use of Microsoft Pivot as a repository-visualization tool.
geekfeminism 
june 2011 by dsalo
Double-blind review favours increased representati... [Trends Ecol Evol. 2008] - PubMed result
The famous orchestra-audition study, replicated in ecology and evolution journals.
grunch  geekfeminism 
may 2011 by dsalo
Futurity.org – Wanted: Gender-free job ads
Surely part of this phenomenon is that gendered language could indicate a strongly-gendered environment? What woman wants to walk into a locker-room-fest?
geekfeminism 
may 2011 by dsalo
Fanboy by Alexander Chee - The Morning News
Not specifically feminist, but definitely about losing ground to the kyriarchy in mainstream comics.
geekfeminism 
may 2011 by dsalo
A Letter to Women in Tech, I Let You Down
So individual initiative always trumps workplace and public-space barriers? All-righty then.
geekfeminism 
may 2011 by dsalo
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