George Sodini, Montreal, Debian
In cereta’s words, “Oh yes, I’m going there.” Trigger warning. After George Sodini went on a misogynist shooting spree, killing three women, a lot of people were making comparisons to the Virginia Tech...
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A comment over on the Geek Feminism wiki asked whether we aren’t damaging the community by documenting sexism. I don’t want to get too 101 on our fine blog, but I do want to talk about why I consider...
View ArticleWhere are all the men bloggers?
When I look around my Google Reader feeds, I see so many insightful, intelligent political and technical blogs by women, but hardly any by men. For instance, I read Shakesville every day for US and...
View ArticleA crisis of linkspam proportions (5th March, 2010)
Lifehacker introduces MacGyver of the Day: Electronics Hacker Jeri Ellsworth: “chip maker, race car builder, pin ball machine maker, blowing-stuff-up’er…” David Barnes is keen to remind us of the...
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Quick hit: Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating
[Trigger warning for harassment, threatening violence against women] Angry Mob by Robert Couse-Baker A few years ago, a wonderful woman and prominent tech blogger named Kathy Sierra was driven offline...
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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...
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