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Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. This page is only for guest post proposals. For general contacts, please go to the Contact us page. Geek Feminism is open to guest posting: posts from writers around the ‘net on geek feminist subjects. Fill out the contact form at the end of this page, pitching your guest post. You need not submit an entire draft; a brief summary of your proposed topic is also okay. If we accept it, we will reply to you within 14 days to notify you. I would like to h...
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Comment Policy | Geek Feminism Blog
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Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. The Geek Feminism blog is a feminist space. We welcome discussion that encourages and supports women in geek communities. To quote Hoyden About Town. Be at least one of: feminist, friendly, amusing, or perspicacious. Two is even better! Anonymous comments are not permitted. Pseudonymous ones are fine. The moderators’ decision is final. This is a feminist space. Especially Resources for men. Inclusive (in opposition to geek gatekeeping. Arguments that...
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Open Source, Closed Minds? A reflection on Joseph Reagle’s “‘Free as in sexist?’ Free culture and the gender gap” | Geek Feminism Blog
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Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. Open Source, Closed Minds? A reflection on Joseph Reagle’s “‘Free as in sexist? 8217; Free culture and the gender gap”. 8212; The GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 3. At the beginning of this year, First Monday (a longstanding, online-only academic journal) published Joseph Reagle’s article “‘Free as in sexist? 8217; Free culture and the gender gap”. Running away from.). In Reagle’s article, I read, “Bente Rasmussen and Tove H&aci...I donR...
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How I Got 50% Women Speakers at My Tech Conference | Geek Feminism Blog
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Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. How I Got 50% Women Speakers at My Tech Conference. Guest blogger Courtney Stanton. Explains how she organized a game developer conference with 50% women speakers. Stanton is a project manager for a video game company in Boston, and long-time feminist scourge of the computer game industry. Her work has been featured on GF. Follow her on Twitter at @q0rt. 8211; Not a bajillion dollars to register. 8211; No panels. Getting women to submit content: easy?
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Martha Chumo: founding Nairobi Dev School | Geek Feminism Blog
https://geekfeminism.org/2013/06/26/martha-chumo-founding-nairobi-dev-school
Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. Martha Chumo: founding Nairobi Dev School. Martha Chumo, a 19 year old woman living in Nairobi, Kenya, is raising funds for a Nairobi Dev School. She’s hoping to raise $50,000, allowing the school to run for nearly a year. Martha previously raised $5000. To attend Hacker School. Tell us more about yourself: your schooling, work, hobbies, family, friends, whatever you’d like to share. When not coding, I am usually reading a book on history or philosop...
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compulsory femininity | Geek Feminism Blog
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Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. Tag Archives: compulsory femininity. Guest Post: Men, if Django Girls makes you uncomfortable, maybe that’s a good thing. This is a guest post by Brianna Laugher, a software developer who appreciates significant whitespace. She tweets fleetingly at @pfctdayelise. It is cross-posted at her Tumblr. Monday was the first day of Europython, and the first keynote was by Ola Sendecka and Ola Sitarska, the founders of Django Girls. This was all illustrated.
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Cosplay is fine, girl, as long as you cosplay for me. | Geek Feminism Blog
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Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. Cosplay is fine, girl, as long as you cosplay for me. This post addresses the trend I discussed in my post on. Geek girls and the problem of self-objectification. This post is cross-posted at The Cosplay Feminist. My friend Lola showed me this video from CollegeHumor. Lyrics are available at the website, just scroll down and click the “LYRICS†tab), a parody called “Cosplay with my Heartâ€:. Oh her dress, her dress. Her buns, her buns. In the vi...
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cookie of the week | Geek Feminism Blog
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Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. Tag Archives: cookie of the week. Cookie of the week: Jake Boxer and Github. Image by cookiejan ( Kiss My Buttercream. We’ve been critical. Before. And the problems we talked about before — specifically, sexual harassment and structurelessness — haven’t necessarily been resolved. Nonetheless, I want to recognize an individual engineer at Github for our occasional “cookie of the week” feature, Jake Boxer. Mdash; Jake Boxer (@jakeboxer) October 3, 2014.
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classifieds | Geek Feminism Blog
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Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. GF classifieds (January, February, and March 2016). This is another round of Geek feminism classifieds. If you’re looking to hire women, find some people to participate in your study, find female speakers, or just want some like-minded folk to join your open source project, this is the thread for you! Here’s how it works:. What is the profile of people you’re looking for? That is, don’t say “SF[O]” or “NYC” or “Mel...Keep it legal. Most jurisdict...
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Guest Post: Men, if Django Girls makes you uncomfortable, maybe that’s a good thing | Geek Feminism Blog
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Women, feminism, and geek culture. Cookie of the Week. Guest Post: Men, if Django Girls makes you uncomfortable, maybe that’s a good thing. This is a guest post by Brianna Laugher, a software developer who appreciates significant whitespace. She tweets fleetingly at @pfctdayelise. It is cross-posted at her Tumblr. Monday was the first day of Europython, and the first keynote was by Ola Sendecka and Ola Sitarska, the founders of Django Girls. This was all illustrated. Maybe it felt a bit like being a squi...
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