Geek culture stereotypes and women’s responses
Links to Lisa Grossman’s Of Geeks and Girls have been turning up everywhere. She’s recounting work by Sapna Cheryan asking women about their interest in computing, in their case rooms that are...
View ArticleOur degenerate modern linkspamming society (18th December, 2009)
How the Geek Stereotype Stunts Computer Science: Lisa Grossman, writer of "Of Geeks and Girls", responds to some Hacker News comments: “The entrance fee to a computer science career is membership in...
View ArticlePlaying with women’s boundaries
Trigger warning: contains mentions of implied sexual assault. Between around 2000 and 2005, mostly during my second and third attempts at tertiary study, I racked up substantially more than one year’s...
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Geeky. Black. Female. Android.
This is cross-posted at Restructure! In the futuristic city of Metropolis, Cindi Mayweather, a.k.a. Android # 57821, falls in love with a human named Anthony Greendown. As a result, the Star Commission...
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If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged.
This post was originally published at Restructure! Often, computer geeks who started programming at a young age brag about it, as it is a source of geeky prestige. However, most computer geeks are...
View ArticleThe Real Female Geek Anthem
I am in love with Marian Call. This is beautiful. (via Amy at Skepchick) Lyrics of “I’ll Still be a Geek After Nobody Thinks it’s Chic (the Nerd Anthem)” from LyricWiki: All the cool kids keep...
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Quick hit: when non-macho guys are on top of the heap
There’s a discussion around the journalism startups that well-known journalists are involved in, and the extent to which they are yet another set of startups full of white men. (Basically, yes.) Emily...
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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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What if free and open source software were more like fandom?
This is the second of a two-part post about feminism and the philosophies and vocabularies of “open stuff” (fandom, open source, etc.). Part I is at Crooked Timber, here, and I suggest you read that...
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