Category Archives: feminism

Feminist hacker lounge at PyCon

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Liz Henry

PyCon gave non-profit booth space to The Ada Initiative and Mozilla for our Feminist Hacker Lounge and it turned out just awesome. Though it was only a 10×10 booth space lined with beanbags we met and hung out with lots … Continue reading →

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Hackerhive and the laser cutter

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Liz Henry

Our Feminist Hackers meetups continue! Last night a bunch of us met at Noisebridge for a lively, chaotic evening clustered around the laser cutter and breathing its toxic fumes. There were around 10 of us coming in and out of … Continue reading →

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Support a geek feminist nonprofit!

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Liz Henry

I’m donating — at the $15/month level — to support The Ada Initiative, a small non-profit that’s tackling sexism in open tech and open culture. Over the last few years we’ve seen women stand up to assert that sexism and … Continue reading →

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Feminist Hackerhive meetups

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Liz Henry

We’ve had a few more anarchafeminist hackerhive meetups over the last month and each one has been different, with a different group of people showing up and wanting to talk about their ideas and projects. Mostly, we just hang out … Continue reading →

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Anarchafeminist Hackerhive meetup

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Liz Henry

About 8 people came to our first Anarchafeminist Hackerhive meetup. We sat in the Noisebridge library, read a couple of things out loud, introduced ourselves, talked about ideas for action and activism, and ate tacos. And plums from someone’s tree. … Continue reading →

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Feminist Hacker News

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Liz Henry

At a couple of conferences lately, Hackmeet and She’s Geeky, as well as at the feminist science fiction convention WisCon, I hosted a discussion of feminist hackers and feminist hacking. I wanted to put the idea out into the world … Continue reading →

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Imagining radical democracy, practicing feminist anarchy

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Liz Henry

At WisCon a couple of weeks ago I was on a panel called Imagining Radical Democracy with Alexis Lothian, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Andrea Hairston. We talked about political change, culture, and science fiction, leaping into mid conversation. Everyone was … Continue reading →

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Meanwhile, in the collective douchebroconsciousness

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Liz Henry

So meanwhile, here’s the Kara is self-aware video from GDC today. Trigger warning for sexual objectification of women, slavery, appropriation of women’s and I would say black women’s specific history of oppression for this representation of an AI, since this … Continue reading →

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Ada Lovelace Day: The Other Geek Girl

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Liz Henry

For Ada Lovelace Day, I’d like to write about this girl from my high school. It was (and is) a huge school, with over 3000 students. I didn’t know Carla very well. She was in my classes, the “advanced” ones … Continue reading →

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Honoring Joanna Russ

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Liz Henry

Joanna Russ died today. I’m very sad. I didn’t know her personally but she was one of my feminist heroes, and I wrote back and forth with her a few times about her work. Now I wish I’d said more, … Continue reading →

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