Personally, I really don't understand why people get upset about Islamic
women *choosing* to wear hijabs, or niqabs, under the pretense of feminism.
Part of what feminism fights for is the right to choose. This is the
unintended consequence.
I get the practical arguments (ie, "I don't know who thi
Hi everyone - the next two days I'll be attending the below conference
- *Connecting
the Dots: Virtuality, Technoloy & Feminism in the Museum*.
The GLAM industry is a female dominated industry, and this is the first
conference of it's type to examine feminism, technology and museum culture.
I enco
well, volunteer & you can get in free ;)
http://www.wikisym.org/2011/09/09/wikisym2011-volunteers/
(but yes, I know there's still travel and it's very short notice).
I'll do my best to report back any interesting discussion from these sessions!
-- phoebe
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Sarah St
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:32 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> You may know about WikiSym -- the international symposium on wikis and
> open collaboration -- which is an annual research conference about
> wikis. It is being held week after next in Mountain View, CA this
> year. There is alw
That's really great!
I wish I could attend WikiSym this year (but the perils of being a poor
student prevail..)
Thanks for sharing this Phoebe!
-Sarah
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:32 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> You may know about WikiSym -- the international symposium on wikis and
>
Dear all,
You may know about WikiSym -- the international symposium on wikis and
open collaboration -- which is an annual research conference about
wikis. It is being held week after next in Mountain View, CA this
year. There is always a good deal of Wikipedia research presented at
WikiSym. This y
I am not sure this is strictly on-topic, but I thought it might be
interesting concerning female appearance issues.
We are starting presidential campaigns in France now, and there is a
candidate for the right of women to wear the niqab (full clothing except
for the eyes)
Here is an article, yo
Yay! *downs her beer*
From,
Emily
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:
> Just wanted to give a shout out to WikiProject:Feminism! Today the project
> hit a milestone - 100 members!
>
> A round of Wikilove beers for all!
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProj
