*Editor’s note: May be NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTzfBws7JWg&feature=youtu.be Our first assignment for the Women Filmmakers class I’m taking at Hampshire College was to create a short slideshow about an autobiographical event that shaped how we construct ourselves with specific attention to gender. My friend and classmate, Dot, produced a wonderful piece about body positivity.  Dot’s piece about body [...]

*Editor’s note: May be NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTzfBws7JWg&feature=youtu.be Our first assignment for the Women Filmmakers class I’m taking at Hampshire College was to create a short slideshow about an autobiographical event that shaped how we construct ourselves with specific attention to gender. My friend and classmate, Dot, produced a wonderful piece about body positivity.  Dot’s piece about body [...]

*Editor’s note: May be NSFW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTzfBws7JWg&feature=youtu.be Our first assignment for the Women Filmmakers class I’m taking at Hampshire College was to create a short slideshow about an autobiographical event that shaped how we construct ourselves with specific attention to gender. My friend and classmate, Dot, produced a wonderful piece about body positivity.  Dot’s piece about body [...]

Hello everyone.  It’s been quite a while since I’ve been around here.  Technical difficulties, and lot’s of work to do have kept me away, but I now find myself returning for a special occasion; the invasion of MY area by perhaps the most radical of the nations prominent pro-life groups,  and MY first chance to get [...]

I attended the Free Software Foundation’s women in free software mini-summit two weeks ago.  The summit was created in order to discuss ideas on how to involve more women in the movement.  Women make up a disproportionately small portion of the free software movement.  As Deb puts it "Women account for less than 2% of our [...]