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List of Women Characters in Video Games
"List of Women Characters in Video Games" article likely out of date. Due to the Geek Feminism Wiki being in archival mode, this article is likely out of date, reflecting the state of the -
Intersectionality
Intersectionality is a concept often used in critical theories to describe the ways in which oppressive institutions (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc.) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another -
LoversLab
LoversLab is a video game modding community with almost no guidelines or regulations regarding acceptable content. Whilst hosted content varies in extremity and is not universally sexist, the popularity and widespread nature of that which -
Nice Guy syndrome
Nice Guy™ is a term in Internet discourse describing a man or teenage boy with a fixation on a friendship building over time into a romance, most stereotypically by providing a woman with emotional -
Toxic masculinity
Toxic masculinity is one of the ways in which Patriarchy is harmful to men. It refers to the socially-constructed attitudes that describe the masculine gender role as violent, unemotional, sexually aggressive, and so forth -
Geek Feminism Wiki
Geek Feminism Wiki FAQ| Feminism 101| Myths| History Communities of geek women Recreational Medievalism| Cosplay| Demoscene| Atheism and skepticism| Hacker culture| more… -
T-shirts
When geek groups or events, such as technical conferences, user groups, etc, produce t-shirts as "swag" ("stuff we all get") for attendees, to sell to members, or to promote products such as software or -
Conference anti-harassment/Policy
This is an example anti-harassment policy suitable for most open source, computing, or technology-related conferences. It may be adopted unchanged or tweaked to suit your conference. Why have an official anti-harassment policy -
Terms to designate groups for women
Are you founding a women geeks group? Then you'll probably need a name. Here are some words/terms/names you could use to show that it is for women. When choosing a name, it -
Trigger warning
Trigger warnings are customary in some feminist and other Safe spaces. They are designed to prevent unaware encountering of certain materials or subjects for the benefit of people who have an extremely strong and damaging -
Good sexism comebacks
Feminists and allies may want to arm themselves with good sexism comebacks in advance, particularly in person. Note that this page is not a guarantee! These comebacks may not work. Or in a particular situation -
Economically Secure Tech Worker Privilege Checklist
Varying levels of economic security are represented in this checklist. Not every item is unique to technology, but all of them affect power relations between employers and employees, and between people who are ostensibly each -
List of women executives at tech companies
"List of women executives at tech companies" article likely out of date. Due to the Geek Feminism Wiki being in archival mode, this article is likely out of date, reflecting the state of the -
Timeline of incidents
See Timeline of geek feminism for the development of geek feminism itself. (Mary Gardiner explains the reason for this list in Why we document, originally on the Geek Feminism blog.) -
Who is harmed by a "Real Names" policy?
This page lists groups of people who are disadvantaged by any policy which bans Pseudonymity and requires so-called "Real names" (more properly, legal names). Often theses policies attempt to reduce or eliminate the veil -
Male Programmer Privilege Checklist
The original version of the list was by Kake, inspired by a post on the London Perlmongers mailing list. A number of other privilege checklists also served as inspiration. From 2006-2011, the master version -
List of women in FLOSS
"List of women in FLOSS" article likely out of date. Due to the Geek Feminism Wiki being in archival mode, this article is likely out of date, reflecting the state of the world circa -
Sexism and Racism in Venture Capital
Physical and sexual violence[edit| edit source] Michael Arrington (founder of TechCrunch and founding partner of CrunchFund) has multiple allegations of physical and sexual violence towards past partners., Dan Bilzerian (venture capitalist and trust-fund -
Conference anti-harassment/Adoption
These conferences have adopted a policy similar to our anti-harassment policy. See Conference anti-harassment for our complete set of resources. -
Conference anti-harassment/Policy resources
This is a list of resources for conference organizers considering adopting an anti-harassment policy for their conference. The example policy itself is located here: Conference anti-harassment/Policy -
Glass door
The Glass Door is a similar to the Glass Ceiling. It is a term for a common pattern of resistance against women's multiple attempts at entering certain workplaces. There is no formal barrier preventing -
EMACS virgins joke
Richard Stallman (RMS) gave a keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit in July 2009 in which he described "EMACS virgins" as "women who have never used EMACS" and said that it was a sacred -
Conference anti-harassment/Responding to reports
This page describes how to respond to reports of conference harassment. The key to responding to conference harassment is having a policy that forbids harassment. See the Conference anti-harassment pages for a sample policy -
FLOSS
FLOSS is an acronym standing for Free/Libre and Open Source Software -- a collection of terms encompassing various software movements and licensing styles that encourage the modification and redistribution of software source code. The term -
Media test
A media test, also known as a critique test, is a means by which reviewers of media works may test the relevance or utility of a film or other narrative work. Many of the tests
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