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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.
Support the Mautner Project for Lesbians With Cancer! "The Mautner Project improves the health of lesbians, bisexual, and transgender women who partner with women, and their families, through advocacy, education, research, and direct service. [The Mautner Project envisions] a healthcare system that is guided by social justice and responsive to the needs of all people."
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November 8, 2007
Category: Announcements
Hi folks. Just wanted to say that blogging's going to be a bit thin in the next few weeks. Got some family health issues I have to deal with. I don't know how long this will take to sort out,...
Posted by Zuska at 2:13 PM • 1 Comments •
November 4, 2007
Category: Donors Choose
October has come and gone, and the Scienceblogs Donors Choose Challenge is over. You helped TSZ raise $1500 of a total $54,335 from all Scienceblogs challenges. That plus the $15,000 matching funds from Seed brings the total amount raised for...
Posted by Zuska at 10:08 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Gendering Technology
Ladies, all these years you've been using blenders and understood them as belonging to the category "kitchen gadget". But when he uses the manly new stainless steel RPM blender, it's not a kitchen gadget, it's a tool! Or so the...
Posted by Zuska at 3:51 PM • 22 Comments •
November 1, 2007
Category: Geekalicious
Something a little lighter after all that Watson-puke of recent days... ...The World's Fair's exceptional "I rank number one on google!" meme!!!! I'd like to suggest a meme, where the premise is that you will attempt to find 5 statements,...
Posted by Zuska at 7:00 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
Here we are in 2007, and you can be an associate dean at a prestigious institution of higher education, and still be completely clueless about campus sexual harassment policy and its legal implications.
Posted by Zuska at 3:15 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Announcements
Yes, it's November 1, and that means Scientiae time! Over at Yami's place, Green Gabbro. I begged and begged my fellow male Sciblings to take up Yami's challenge and participate in this Scientiae, and two - count 'em, two! -...
Posted by Zuska at 2:24 PM • 0 Comments •
