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 ArticleGF 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 ArticleOn 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 ArticleWiki 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 ArticleGeek 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 ArticleIs 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 ArticleCode 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 ArticleVerifiability, 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 ArticleQuick 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 ArticleBringing 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...
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