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Allies workshop
Often, when a sexist incident happens, we are so busy being shocked and amazed that we can't react quickly. Sometimes days can go by before we figure out what to do. This is true -
Allies
Allies are people who support a group who are commonly the subject of discrimination, prejudice, etc, but who are not members of that group. Specifically, feminist allies are individuals who are not women who support -
Resources for allies
aren't sure where to start, or don't know whether what they're doing is wanted or appreciated. The following resources offer suggestions for how allies (including men) can support women in geek communities. -
GHC 2014 Male Allies Plenary Panel
As early as 9 Apr 2014, community members voiced concerns about including Go Daddy on an allies panel, given the company's history of sexist advertising. In particular, Cate Huston's blog post calling on -
Good sexism comebacks
Feminists and allies may want to arm themselves with good sexism comebacks in advance, particularly in person. Note that this page is not a guarantee! These comebacks may not work. Or in a particular situation -
Geek Feminism Wiki
Geek Feminism Wiki FAQ| Feminism 101| Myths| History Communities of geek women Recreational Medievalism| Cosplay| Demoscene| Atheism and skepticism| Hacker culture| more… -
Timeline of incidents
See Timeline of geek feminism for the development of geek feminism itself. (Mary Gardiner explains the reason for this list in Why we document, originally on the Geek Feminism blog.) -
EMACS virgins joke
Richard Stallman (RMS) gave a keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit in July 2009 in which he described "EMACS virgins" as "women who have never used EMACS" and said that it was a sacred -
Conference anti-harassment/Policy resources
This is a list of resources for conference organizers considering adopting an anti-harassment policy for their conference. The example policy itself is located here: Conference anti-harassment/Policy -
Gamergate coordinated harassment campaign
In August 2014, men seeking to purge the video game industry of women began organizing a coordinated harassment and abuse campaign under the pretext of "ethics in video game journalism", using 4chan for proxy recruitment -
Concern troll
more serious discussion. Concern trolls are not always self-aware; they may also view themselves as potential allies who have just, oddly, never met a feminist opinion they liked. Concern trolls can be identified primarily -
White knighting
White Knighting is an attempt at being a feminist ally that assumes that men are better feminists than women are. Essentially, the problem is an ally's assumption that one is the best, most effective -
Flashbelt slide show
The blog post that really broke this story was Prude or Professional by Courtney Remes, an attendee at the conference. Many responses to women's complaints about this presentation included explanations that that's just -
Resources for therapists
This page is intended to email, link, or print out and give to your new therapist to give them context of Geek Feminist background, issues, and incidents so they understand why you're so fucking -
AdaCamp DC 2012 notes
These are notes from AdaCamp DC, held in 2012 in Washington DC. As you create notes for an AdaCamp DC session, please add a link to them below! -
Strong female characters
Strong female characters are usually considered a desirable thing in geek media such as science fiction, comic books, etc. A common criticism is that (some) strong female characters are one-dimensional. -
List of rhetorics
This page lists Geek Feminism Wiki articles about arguments, excuses, and other rhetorics by theme and type. It didn't/doesn't happen because[] I find it hard to believe -
Recruiting women
Here are some tips to help if you would like to recruit women to your organization, project, company, etc. It is probably a good idea to spend some time thinking about what your reasons are -
Bingo card
when explaining your position over several comments, is considered a sign of either a concern troll or allies who need more feminism 101 background reading or a privilege check. In theory one would play bingo -
Bad sexism comebacks
So here's some things to avoid! Telling a sexist that they deserve be raped makes you no better than them. -
Grace Hopper Celebration
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (often shortened to Grace Hopper, Grace Hopper Celebration, or GHC) is a conference aimed at women in computing. Co-founded by Dr. Anita Borg and Dr. Telle -
2009 women in FLOSS discussions
The issue of the small number of women involved in FLOSS and sub-communities, together with sexist incidents in these communities, received a very large amount of attention in 2009 due to several highly publicised -
So you made a mistake
now and will have a statement in a few days" can be fine., Ask your friends and allies privately not to fuel the flames: they will naturally be inclined to vigorously defend you, possibly stating -
Pregnant person fallacy
The pregnant person fallacy is a fallacious argument that discriminating against some property that an oppressed group holds disproportionately is not discrimination against that group. For example, take discrimination against pregnant people, against short people -
Ubuntu Women
Ubuntu Women is a group within the Ubuntu project for women and their allies. The first portions of the project began with an IRC channel and a place on the Ubuntu Forums in the summer
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