Her Links Rose Up Forever (18th September, 2009)

• Horror wants women to scream, but not to talk – The British Fantasy Association interviews 16 horror writers. None of them women.
• Overview of English grammar by Suzette Haden Elgin. 11 post series and still going strong. Here’s the adverb chapter!
• James Vasile, from the Software Freedom Law Center, has founded a planet (blog aggregator) for women in Free Software. Instructions on emailing James to add your blog are on the right-hand sidebar of that page (via Stormy Peters on the gnome-women list).
• Daylight Atheism has a discussion of Atheism, Race and Gender following on from Greta Christina’s posts linked previously (via Erigami in comments)
• Harriet Jacobs of Fugitivus is collecting stories of men standing against misogyny at Stuff What Boys Can Do. Happy endings not necessarily expected, just real stories of male allies standing up for what they believe in.
• Bruce Byfield at Datamation.com writes about Sexism: Open Source Software’s Dirty Little Secret (sanity warning re: comment thread, however; it’s deja vu all over again.)
• On being a nonprofit (and a girl) at TechCrunch 50

Link Roundup from Outer Space (11th September, 2009)

• Jennifer Ouellette at Twisted Physics blogs about people playing the Doctor Who theme on two Tesla coils
• Women 2.0 startup weekend creates 19 startups
• Alaya Dawn Johnson takes the creator of TV’s “Supernatural” to task in An open letter to Eric Kripke.
• Has feminist blogging gone mainstream? at Feministing
• Secret feminist agenda: revealed! in a real estate ad found by Lovely Listing
• Chronotron also takes a pot shot at those Evony ads, with time robot-themed boobs.
• The Boston Globe has an article on Gioia De Cari’s one-woman play, Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp Through MIT’s Male Math Maze
• Greta Christina posted the second half of her discussion of race, gender and atheism: What We Need to Do — And Why: targetting diverse speakers for conferences, taking complaints about diversity seriously, and continuing to talk.
• Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, has issued a statement calling the government treatment of Alan Turing in the 1950s “appalling” and apologising (via Brenda and undoubtedly many others)
• The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has published a podcast of a discussion from the Adelaide Festival of Ideas: “Sex, Knowledge and Society. Is science culturally based? Does gender play a role in scientific study? And why do famous philosophers always have beards? It must be because of special interests of the beard shampoo companies. (I’m kidding)” (via Clinton Roy in email)
• The OTW owns the goddamn servers! (Partial context — does anyone have a link to the original quote from Cesperanza in ’07 in response to the Fanlib imbroglio?)
• Over at Shakesville, they take on the white-male-ness of the Mac vs PC ads: It’s hip to be smug.

The Left Hand of Link Roundup (Sep 9th, 2009)

• Technology for “keeping kids safe” unsurprisingly sometimes serves a dual purpose, as Lauredhel points out: Your kids’ ’secure’ online chats being sold to marketers
• Pink Brain, Blue Brain: Claims of sex differences fall apart. Newsweek describes Lise Eliot’s book Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps—And What We Can Do About It, in which she reviews evidence that parents cause the differences in infant behaviour that some people claim is innate.
• Bitch magazine: Princess synergy: Disney’s acquisition of Marvel is good for boys, but what about girls?: “My concern is that the resulting products will continue to be two unfortunate sides of the same gendered coin: Good-Girly Princess and Oversexed Superheroine.”
• laughingrat on Impostors: “I wonder if, for instance, my college adviser would have been able to get away with pretending I was too stupid for graduate school–he said as much to me in a slightly gentled-up fashion–if I hadn’t myself learned to be so self-deprecating.”
• Azurelunatic on women-only spaces, being one of the boys, GRS, and the Vorkosiganverse.
• FemaleScienceProfessor asks people to start seeing micro-inequities, those little niggling incidents that are so easily written off as probably not sexist, just someone having a bad day, or being a jerk.
• Webcomic A Softer World takes on I don’t see gender, I just see people.
• Greta Christina discusses sexism and racism in the skeptical and atheist communities, and about how being white and male-dominated will perpetrate itself in unhelpful ways. There is some overlap between these communities and geekdom, so it isn’t surprising to hear that some of the defensiveness is similar.