In the last three weeks, my programming class has kept me too busy playing my hand at being Ada to put together a coherent piece on the order of last year’s ALD post. But I’m already planning something all-out for next year. So this one’s a quickie. Much of tech [...]
getting over the “ewwwww!” factor
getting over the “ewwwww!” factor
I am definitely not arguing that this will bloom into a perfect or satisfying relationship, nor do I want to see that, but our Peggy Olsen is not being used, and she isn’t a victim here.
let’s get a few facts straight
let’s get a few facts straight
Things the Nazis said about the Jews:
1. Communist/socialists
2. Not “real”/loyal citizens
3. Had a homosexual agenda …
Dead, Wrapped in Plastic
Dead, Wrapped in Plastic
One of my co-workers, an incredibly talented artist herself, invited me to submit a piece to a juried art exhibit, Baby, It’s Cold Outside… , “about how you do/do not define, dismiss, despise, and/or devote yourself to ‘feminism.’” I especially liked the guideline to “free to offend, just be mindful as to whom you piss off.”
Dingbat Press
Dingbat Press
Was Paris or Nicole the first? It’s snowballed since. People who — if all was right in the world — I shouldn’t know the names of: Sarah Palin, Lauren Conrad, now Carrie Prejean. Why, why, when there are so many incredibly talented women writers in the world who eminently deserve [...]
8 things that need to go away in 2009, revisited
8 things that need to go away in 2009, revisited
A mid-year check-in on my “Things that need to go away in 2009″ post, to see how much progress we’ve made as a culture.
file this under “duh.”
file this under “duh.”
“Having a feminist partner was linked to healthier heterosexual relationships for women. Men with feminist partners also reported both more stable relationships and greater sexual satisfaction. According to these results, feminism does not predict poor romantic relationships, in fact quite the opposite.”
Girls who rock
Girls who rock
Imagine you’re a teenage girl, and you want to be a rock god: who are your role models? Who’s there to look up to? Who can you respect?
Justice[s] for all
Justice[s] for all
So, this Souter thing. Interesting.
Mostly, to me, because it opens up the possibility of getting a second (and maybe, eventually—wait for it!—an unprecedented third) woman on the bench. 8-to-1 is simply NOT RIGHT!
a crush on rbg
a crush on rbg
Sometimes I have days when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is my favorite person in the entire world. Today is like that:
I made this.
I made this.
Because he’s totally not Vader; he’s Old Man Potter grumpface, all that whippersnapper Bailey’s Savings and Loan is nothing but a miserable little socialist scam!
On #amazonfail
On #amazonfail
When I was in high school, the American Taliban took over my town’s school board.
One of their first moves was to create a policy banning the school from “encouraging, or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative.”
Finding inspiration through Ada
Finding inspiration through Ada
There are already well over ONE THOUSAND Ada Lovelace Day posts listed at http://ada.pint.org.uk/; I’ve been so moved by so many people’s that I wanted to highlight a few that really touched me, whether they were well-written, moving, taught me something, or were just about really cool ladies.
Kick-ass women in tech
Kick-ass women in tech
I explained two weeks ago that when I first learned about Ada Lovelace Day back in January, I was about halfway through drafting this post, my response to—and in some ways, retaliation against—the many “best”/”most influential” people in tech list links that were flooding emails, facebook pages, delicious networks, and print publications right around the turning of the new year.
