Women
I’m a huge supporter of what WikiLeaks is doing. I’m tired of the duplicity of the world’s governments and feel that something needed to be done to bring this all out into the open. I’m horrified by the attempts to silence WikiLeaks and see the current actions of the affected governments as a clear example [...]
Those that have read my blog for some time will know that I’m one of those scary bisexual people. I really do have a choice about the sort of people I want to have relationships with, unlike people who are more strongly homosexual or heterosexual (not that I actually have any choice about who I [...]
Sorry for being late with my contribution to Ada Lovelace Day… For the last few days, sleep and recovery have taken priority over blogging, but I’m feeling a lot more energetic today! I wanted to recognise a woman who most people wouldn’t see as being a scientist, largely because she was a beautiful actress of [...]
Continue reading about Belated Ada Lovelace Day: Hedy Lamarr
On 24th March, it’s Ada Lovelace Day 2010 where hopefully 3500 bloggers will be writing a post about a woman in science. Far too many women are erased from history, in science perhaps even more than elsewhere. Ada Lovelace Day is all about bringing these women into the limelight, where they belong, telling their stories [...]
I stopped reading Feministing a little while before the whole trans boycott of the site largely because it was clear to me that it isn’t a safe place for trans women. It was already quite clear to me that the site holds a quite narrow view of feminism which did exclude a lot of women [...]
Continue reading about Feministing: They’re not just trans-exlcuding
If you were ever looking for the ideal way to express to a man why so many women live in fear of men raping them and how they should act when it comes to interacting with women, send them to this blog post: Shapely Prose : Schrödinger’s Rapist Possibly Related Posts: Is Julian Assange a [...]