Linkspam hangover (4th January, 2010)
Language Log explores gender bias in the order of English binomial expressions through statistical analysis of four text corpus sources Ceci n’est pas une excuse: Mel looks at privilege as a game...
View ArticleDear Geekdoms: We’re not your decoration
There’s a trend in geekdoms whereby after some visibility-enhancing event or incident some dudes notice that there are women participating in their geekdom (liek omg rly?!). With best intents and all,...
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She Geek: Women and Self-Labeling in Online Geek Communities
Courtney is an MA student studying Victorian science fiction at Texas A&M University. She blogs about feminism, geekery, and academia at From Austin to A&M. This post originally appeared at...
View ArticleQuick hit: The enemy is not MEN. The enemy are a-holes.
Gina Minks responds to a post on our linkspam: I read this post (via the Geek Feminism Blog) and I just have to respond. The post is titled “Why women in tech need to stop whining and start to nurture...
View ArticleRemorseless husband-stealing no-good linkspams (15th August, 2011)
Susannah Breslin, Why Women Shouldn’t Go to Tech Conferences (there’s too much of a culture/values clash between women and tech) and Meagan Adele Lopez, Why Women Shouldn’t Write about Why Women...
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Can geekiness be decoupled from whiteness?
As a fledgling nerd in my teens and early twenties, grammar pedantry was an important part of geek identity for me. At the time, I thought that being a geek had a lot to do with knowing facts and...
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