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Links for August 6

posted by clara Aug 6, 2010 @ 7:13 PM • 2 comments

I just discovered Riot Nrrd — an awesome webcomic about geeky teens where most of the main characters are female (and the cast also features characters who are trans, queer, people of color, etc…). Plus their links page includes the sections “Feminist/Womanist Nerd Stuff”, “Nerds of Color Stuff”, “Disabled Nerd Stuff”, and “Queer Nerd Stuff”.

Another comic, this time a one-off by Lucy Knisely, about the experience of women in nerd culture.

Joe Clark posts a misguided response to Stubornella’s post (linked earlier this week) about women in technology — Elaine Nelson posts a sensible reply.

At Tiger Beatdown, Garland Grey posts about his experience of queer nerd identity.

Mashable posts a list of developer/hacker women to follow on Twitter. The list itself is great; some of these women I’m familiar with, and some are new to me. But something about the way the list is framed (it opens with “Everyone should know at least one woman who can code her way out of a wet paper bag”) rubs me the wrong way. Thoughts?

On Twitter, check out the Anita Borg Institute’s list of programs supporting technical women
BlogHer posts a list of 10 great technical blogs by women; Geek Feminism readers share more in the comments. Know another great blog not mentioned? (Maybe your own blog?) Share it in the comments here!
UK blog Women in Technology posts about the growing number of female science teachers
Microsoft’s Imagine Cup featured several all-female teams, and one of those teams, Mirror Vita from Thailand, took first place in the Digital Media category. Congratulations Mirror Vita!
Facebook is offering a scholarship to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing for university students majoring in CS! If I were still in school I’d be all over this.
The fantastic Amanda Hess of the Sexist enlists feminist geek Courtney Stoker to help answer a man’s question about how to make his corner of geekdom more accessible to women.
Mashable posts a list of 5 organizations helping women get ahead in tech — including the Ruby on Rails workshops for women, which I know are awesome because I TA’d for them when they came to Boston. (Also, it looks like Mashable changed the title of this article from when I saw it a few days ago, which is nice; the original “Why Women Programmers Aren’t a Fad” was a little off-putting in its implications. I’m a person, not a fad!)