Laurian’s Living the Impostor Syndrome
One of the many awesome women I met at Grace Hopper posted this experience she had with a student: So far in the grading it seems like everyone did their fair share of the work. Then I get to the last...
View ArticleLetting down my entire gender
Years ago, probably around when I started my master’s degree, I had a chat with a friend about grad school, and she was telling me about how she’d made the decision not to continue on for her PhD. She...
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On competence, confidence, pernicious socialization, recursion, and tricking...
The other night I went to a hacking meetup for the first time in months. It’s usually an informal Python learnfest, and as I’m refreshing my Python basics, I went with the assumption that I’d be the...
View ArticleImpostor syndrome and hiring power
This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question: What are some ways in which I can avoid rejecting people who suffer from impostor syndrome when they apply for a job? I’ve recently been promoted to a...
View ArticleICANN nominations open
ICANN nominations are open. The ICANN controls domain names, among other services that create a globally coordinated Internet. Maria Farrell, a member of the nominating committee points out: So far,...
View ArticleWhere are all the linkspams? (14th March, 2011)
Betsy Leondar-Wright and ana australiana write about the impenetrability of middle-class activism to working class people, and about how the sidelining of middle-class subcultures isn’t equivalent to...
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Re-post: On competence, confidence, pernicious socialization, recursion, and...
During the December/January slowdown, Geek Feminism is re-publishing some of our highlights from earlier in the year. This post originally appeared on January 20, 2011. The other night I went to a...
View ArticleRe-post: Impostor syndrome and hiring power
During the December/January slowdown, Geek Feminism is re-publishing some of our highlights from earlier in the year. This post originally appeared on February 22, 2011. This is an Ask a Geek Feminist...
View Article“I was crippled by Impostor Syndrome”: One woman’s story
This is one woman’s anonymous story about Impostor Syndrome and how it affected her geek career. It ultimately caused her to drop out of a profession she loved due to lack of confidence in her...
View ArticleThe war on linkspam (28 June 2013)
Petition to Put Ada Lovelace on the £10 Note: “[O]ther than the Queen, there will be no women featuring on our English bank notes… We would like to propose Ada Lovelace – Founder of Scientific...
View ArticleGoto Considered Linkspam (11 Oct 2013)
The DNA of a Geek Feminist | Being Geek Chic: “So I’ve been thinking a lot more recently, about where these two geeks intersect: the one who loves Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland and American Gods,...
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The effect of linkspam on man-in-the-moon marigolds (29 March 2014)
Events, fundraisers and such: Bring the Lesbians Who Tech Summit to New York!, ticket pre-sales to fund an event June 19–22, closing in just a few hours. Women in Tech Panel Event in New York City |...
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Scenes from a linkspam (11 November 2014)
QUEERS DESTROY SCIENCE FICTION! | LIGHTSPEED (31 October): “Submissions for our Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue. Anyone who identifies as queer can submit science fiction short stories,...
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Learning How to Hack in a Bro’s World: A Women’s College Student Perspective
Image courtesy of Cali Stenson. This is a guest post from Cali Stenson and Karina Chan. Cali Stenson is a sophomore at Wellesley College majoring in computer science and minoring in math. She’s the...
View ArticleGF-ish sessions at Penguicon this weekend
This weekend, April 28-30, people coming to Penguicon in Southfield, Michigan can catch a number of sessions of interest to Geek Feminism readers. Coraline Ada Ehmke is one of the Guests of Honor (her...
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