Tag Archives: feminism

Highly trained girl-monkey sys admin bait

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Liz Henry

geeking at the conference Originally uploaded by Liz Henry I was saddened and angered recently at a geeky gathering, to hear a very annoying and sexist story about women at techology conferences. A young man was talking to another guy … Continue reading →

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Annoyingly sexist framing of Google VP Marissa Mayer

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Liz Henry

PhotoOriginally uploaded by thisgirlangie As an inoculation to what I am about to expose you to, here is an awesome photo of some ubergeeks from the Google-sponsored Geek Girl Dinner organized by Angie Chang from Woman 2.0. From left: Sumaya … Continue reading →

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People I met at BlogHer; and the swag

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Liz Henry

Here is a giant bigass post with links to all the people I met at Blogher. It was often a blur of meeting people who recognized me because I am recognizable with the purple hair and all. But then I … Continue reading →

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Pink and sparkly

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Liz Henry

Okay on the one hand, Geek Girl Bingo. Pink, sparkly, cute, colour choice, stereotype city. I am totally down with calling people on their constant application of these ideas to femininity. On the other hand, I kind of want this. … Continue reading →

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(Not so) fascinating, Captain

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Liz Henry

Wifi was spotty at the Web 2.0 conference, but I enjoyed meeting people and listening to talks in the Web2open part of town. My coworkers Luke and Kirsten and I gave an off the cuff demo and talk about wikis, … Continue reading →

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Let’s get naked

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Liz Henry

Wouldn’t it be awesome if this were true? If some techie magazine had an article about being “Naked” or transparent in business practices, and in the article featured a bunch of men, and used a naked photo of one of … Continue reading →

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Increasingly upset about the mean kids

Posted on March 27, 2007 by Liz Henry

This keeps getting worse and worse. I had read in several places that Maryam Scoble was “mentioned in meankids.org” but that’s got to qualify as one of the worst euphemisms ever. “Mentioned”? For god’s sake people. It’s one of the … Continue reading →

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Patriarchy exists and we’re kicking its ass

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Liz Henry

My blood is BOILING WITH RAGE from reading about the threats and extreme harassment that people made against Kathy Sierra. And I wish I could ride in on my warhorse and help fix it, but I can’t. I’m not even … Continue reading →

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Wikchix meetup, Thurs. March 1

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Liz Henry

If you’re in the Bay Area and are a wiki-ish person, you might like to swing by the Wikichix meetup tonight. Add yourself on this wiki page or on the wikichix page if you’re registered there; either way. So far, … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging from "She’s Such a Geek" reading

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Liz Henry

I’m at Modern Times bookstore on Valencia in San Francisco & we’re all being extremely geeky. Passing around this strange blobby white musical toy with spikey shapes… Giggling about the perils of installing LaTeX

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