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March 24, 2013 – 4:05 pm |

AdaCamp is a conference dedicated to increasing women’s participation in open technology and culture: open source software, Wikipedia-related projects, open data, open geo, fan fiction, remix culture, and more. AdaCamp brings women together to build community, discuss issues women have in common across open technology and culture fields, and find ways to …

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Media #Fail + #FTW

short examples of when the media wows us with gender and race consciousness, or when they fall short of the mark.

Books aren’t dead

monthly interviews with authors of recent feminist books on new media, science, and technology.

Feminist Works

Feminist works-in-progress by Fembot Collective members for the purposes of collaboration, cross-fertilization, and networking.

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A feminist get together that will focus on issues surrounding Fembot and Ada, including issues of funding, communication, and diversity.

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Read this: “The White Savior Industrial Complex”

March 21, 2012 – 2:35 pm |

Read this great article by Teju Cole from The Atlantic, which is the latest of a fantastic series of pieces from around the web generated in response to KONY2012.

Image courtesy of The Atlantic

Mark Your Calendars: March 23 at 2:30pm

February 29, 2012 – 1:32 pm |

Image courtesy of Miss Representation
The Fembot Collective and CSWS are hosting a screening of the documentary, Miss Representation on March 23rd at 2:30pm in Lillis 282! If you can’t be there in body, join us on Twitter under the #msrep hashtag.
 
The film, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is:
“Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss …