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Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains
You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.
If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.
You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
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April 30, 2007
Category: Moron Management
Maybe it's not a bad time to repost the link to this post, and to requote this snippet from it: When the topic at hand is men not taking an issue seriously, suggesting that the issue might not really be...
Posted by Zuska at 11:52 PM • 9 Comments •
April 27, 2007
Category: Our Innate Womanly Natures
what the f*ck does that have to do with anything in the story?
Posted by Zuska at 9:18 PM • 55 Comments •
Category: Comments Policy
The last week or so, some of you may have noticed that you submit a comment and it doesn't show up in the comments thread right away. I'm assuming you get the message that the comment is being held for...
Posted by Zuska at 6:41 PM • 0 Comments •
April 26, 2007
Category: Manifestoes
A bunch of gun-totin' white Americans threatening to lynch a non-white American just does not go down well.
Posted by Zuska at 7:19 PM • 10 Comments •
April 25, 2007
Category: Race Matters
...veiled attempts to protect the in-group...
Posted by Zuska at 5:29 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
UPDATE: There was a veritable blogswarm on this issue, and Shelley reports that it seems to have generated results. Although, I will note that "granting permission" is not quite the same thing as acknowledging that her original post fell under...
Posted by Zuska at 3:14 PM • 1 Comments •
April 24, 2007
Category: Burns My Shorts
This is evil in so many ways I can't even begin to describe it.
Posted by Zuska at 5:22 PM • 27 Comments •
April 23, 2007
Category: Naming Experience
I recently finished reading Intuition, by Allegra Goodman. It's a great novel, and anyone who's done time as a postdoc will appreciate it, especially if you've done time as postdoc in biomedical research. You may find yourself reading it and...
Posted by Zuska at 4:01 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Role Models
Women promoting women within the science and engineering community is a smart thing to do.
Posted by Zuska at 2:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Miscellaneous
I don't know if it's the headaches or the medication or both
Posted by Zuska at 2:01 PM • 1 Comments •
April 13, 2007
Category: Memes
"You may be bright, but you're a physical moron!"
Posted by Zuska at 6:45 PM • 0 Comments •
April 6, 2007
Category: Joy of Science
Well, presumably, international women are women too.
Posted by Zuska at 5:35 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Joy of Science
"Patriarchal science has no passion."
Posted by Zuska at 3:52 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Daily Struggles
It's like tomcats spraying to mark their territory.
Posted by Zuska at 2:40 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Joy of Science
Daydreaming about the Revolution in science is a luxury few women scientists can afford.
Posted by Zuska at 1:37 PM • 4 Comments •
April 4, 2007
Category: Joy of Science
Welcome to Week 3 of our course on "Feminist Theory and the Joy of Science". This post will be a presentation of the summaries for each of this week's assigned readings. If you were not able to do the readings...
Posted by Zuska at 9:15 AM • 0 Comments •
April 2, 2007
Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?
Mosey on over to Lab Cat's place and check out the third Scientiae. As is becoming the standard, lots of good stuff....
Posted by Zuska at 4:41 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Daily Struggles
One day you're a scientist, the next day you're not?
Posted by Zuska at 3:16 PM • 11 Comments •
