Quantcast
Channel: geek feminism wiki – Geek Feminism Blog
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 13 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

My goal: inform women’s colleges about Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code 2012 - help me publicize this to college women! If you have contacts at women’s colleges, let’s work to get a GSoC presentation there before March 20th. I’ll help. Google’s open...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

GF classifieds: wiki edition

As you may know, we have a wiki as well as a blog. In fact the wiki is more than a year older than the blog—we have a little history page up now—and it only has a few (3 to 5 at any given time) regular...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

On the Geek Feminism wiki: from Creeper Move cards to women in speculative...

This is the start of a series highlighting work on the Geek Feminism wiki. Featured article: our new feature is the article on Karen Spärck Jones, British computer scientist, which will be featured...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Wiki help needed: supporting young geek women!

One of the forms of geek feminist activism that many adult geeks want to get involved in is supporting girls and young women in geek community and skills. I’d love to have a wiki page that helps people...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Geek Feminism: a family cloud

Skud and I were both separately musing recently on the complex ancestry of some of the Geek Feminism, geek feminist, geek social justice and similar initiatives. Things like this: Double Union arose...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Is harassment in your community unwelcome? Adopt a Community Anti-Harassment...

Last week, the Geek Feminism community announced that we’ve adopted a code of conduct in our community. Our code begins: The Geek Feminism (GF) community is dedicated to providing a harassment-free...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Code of Conduct timeline and postmortem

Last week, Geek Feminism announced we’ve adopted a Code of Conduct. As Annalee said in that announcement, this comes long after adoption of codes in other communities, especially events: You’ve been...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Verifiability, truth, and hearsay: feminist point of view on the Geek...

The following quasi-anonymous comment was received and acknowledged on the Geek Feminism Wiki’s article about the Gittip crisis. If I understand the editing policies here (I just read them), lies or...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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

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...

View Article


Bringing the blog to a close

We’re bringing the Geek Feminism blog to a close. First, some logistics; then some reasons and reminiscences; then, some thanks. Logistics The site will still be up for at least several years, barring...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 13 View Live




Latest Images