Articles in FemBlog
NMP 27: Crush
NMP 27 Crush (mai/jun 2013) is out!
In this issue:
Editorial 27: Crush – Mél Hogan and M-C MacPhee
What Makes a Crush? by Ela Przybylo and Danielle Cooper with “Loop03″ by Jeff Kulak
Design Crush: Profiling Jacqueline Wallace by Mél Hogan
How To Not be Creepy by James P. Ascher
Last Butch Standing: Talking Fried Chicken, Analog …
WikiWomen Event Media Archives
Photos and archives of our live streams are available!
Check out our Storify!
High-resolution photos are on our Facebook page.
Streams are available on Youtube below:
Friday
Our broadcast was interrupted during the event. Here is the second stream:
Saturday
Feminist Dialogues in Technology: A Pitzer Wiki Party
Ours was an intimate collective of six dedicated feminists who were determined to contribute to the world of Wikipedia. Our class, which is appropriately named Feminist Dialogues in Technology, met around 9:10 am—a little late and groggy but also hopeful. The sugary snacks provided to us by the Pitzer Dean …
Live Stream: Write Women into Wikipedia Workshop
We’re going to be live-streaming Sarah Stierch’s workshop on becoming a Wikipedia editor on Friday, 3/8 from 3-5pm PST. There will be a delay of a few minutes. Bookmark this page and check back here to follow along with the workshop. Also join in the conversation on Twitter at #fembotwiki.
Writing Women into Wikipedia
Please join CSWS, the Fembot Project, and the ASUO Women’s Center at two events that will celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by teaching and encouraging our community members to become Wikipedians and by adding women to Wikipedia’s content.
Friday, March 8, 3-5 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room: Sarah Stierch, …
Militant/Feminist … Research by Alex Juhasz
by ALEX-JUHASZ on FEBRUARY 12, 2013
I spent last weekend attending two conference-like events, Invisible Crisis at NYU and theFembot Unconference at University of Oregon. The fact of the University affiliation (and support) of these non-academic, or anti-academic, or quasi-academic events is now noted, and will be discussed soon; while the fact that they were on two …
Suture and Scars
Hi bots,
Thanks to everyone who helped us with this awhile back – I’m happy to annonce that our paper exploring the tensions of academic feminism (Suture and Scars: Evidencing the Struggles of Academic Feminism) is getting published next year in:
Kaitlynn Mendes and Kumi Silva (Eds.), Invisible and Irrelevant? Contemporary Feminism and its …
unconference hashtag
We’re only days away from our very first Fembot unconference. If you won’t be able to join us in Portland this weekend, follow along and participate in the conversation via Twitter at #fembotjam!
CFP: Ada, Issue 3, Feminist Science Fiction
In the 1985 essay that defined the terms for feminist thinking about science and technology in the decades since, Donna Haraway observed that “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.” She drew together the cybernetic organisms of fact and fiction, the beings of shiny technology …
Fembot Jam Session 1: an Unconference on Feminist Multimodal Publishing and Collaboration
White Stag Building: Papé Forum
Portland, Oregon
Saturday & Sunday, 9-5 pm
9-10 February 2013
Slightly over a year after Fembot launched its first feature, Laundry Day, members of the collective will meet in Portland, Oregon, for a two-day unconference to discuss Fembot’s past, present, and future. Goals for this event include:
To think collectively …
Naomi Wolf on Torture and Zero Dark Thirty
An amazing response from Naomi Wolf on the fetishization of torture and the exaggeration of its use in Zero Dark Thirty.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/04/letter-kathryn-bigelow-zero-dark-thirty
