“Girl stuff” in Free Software
This is an edited repost of a blog entry of mine from February 2009. In January 2009 I gave a talk at the LinuxChix miniconf held as part of linux.conf.au 2009. It was titled ‘Starting Your Free...
View ArticleWhen it changed (1998?)
Anthropologist Biella Coleman just posted “1998 and the Irish Accent is Why I Study F/OSS”. She quotes a rumination by Don Marti on 1998 as a crucial and strange year in tech: …there was all this...
View ArticleWomen and geek prestige
This an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our commenters. I have some comments on this one at the bottom, but not a real answer. I’ve seen various mention of trying to increase the respect given for...
View ArticleMy Little Linkspam: URLs are magic (22 January 2013)
Gender in Twitter: Styles, stances, and social networks: “By clustering Twitter feeds, we find a range of styles and interests that reflects the multifaceted interaction between gender and language.”...
View ArticleA fisherman of the inland linkspam (14 May 2013)
Sometimes I Feel Like I am a Fake Geek Girl: “I know that I’m not really faking anything as I’m pretty up front with the holes in my experience, but sometimes I feel that I shouldn’t even call myself...
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GitHub alternatives and replacements?
Promoted from comments to a “Ask a Geek Feminist” post for commenters because we suspect many people have this question: rmd1023 asks: So, is there a github replacement out there that hasn’t pissed off...
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Linkspam, all alone in the moonlight (21 December 2014)
How user research woke me up to harassment in the design community | Medium (December 19): “But then I get a bad response, and then 2 more. My heart sank. […] My immediate reaction was to play down...
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