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attackeng.jpg 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.

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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains

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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.

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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.

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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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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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March 31, 2008

Pseudonymous Writing: Two Views

Category: Daily Struggles

Pseudonymous blogging - and commenting - is common. Some like it, some don't; some see the need for it, some don't. Whatever side you're on, you might be interested in these two recent columns from the Chronicle of Higher Education....

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March 28, 2008

Friday Bookshelf: Gardening For Life

Category: Gardening For Life

The keys are native plants in a multi-storied landscape, from ground cover to perennials to shrubs to small and large trees.

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March 27, 2008

Advice From "Becoming a Writer"

Category: Daily Struggles

Time and energy spent in efforts to educate knuckleheads about women's abilities and the barriers they face is time and energy that can't be spent for some other creative endeavor.

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March 17, 2008

Some More Links for 3-17-2008

Category: Linkfest

Good stuff from the AWIS Washington Wire: A new website on reducing stereotype threat. The engineering of ice cream, from Yale's first female dean of engineering. "More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made...

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Links for 3-17-2008

Category: Linkfest

You just have to read Non Sequitur today. It's a great strip in general but I really liked today's comic for reasons that will be obvious to you. Lab Cat has announced a Fortnight-long Food Fest. In fact I am...

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March 13, 2008

Patch Hunky, PhD

Category: Tales From The Coal Patch

Alice recently told her ethnic story over at Sciencewomen, and asked others to join in the attempt to "displace white from the default position". Of course lots of comments ensued; her follow-up is here, and well worth reading. In the...

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March 11, 2008

You Have To See It To Believe It

Category: Isn't It Ironic?

Warning: May increase blood pressure.

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March 7, 2008

On The "Choice" Of Having A Child

Category: Ludicrous Language

Last month I wrote about children, academic careers, and moms. Lively discussion ensued. Here's something you should read for a follow up, and hat tip to Sciencewoman for the link: Let me reminds you, once again, that people do not...

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"Geek Chic - Computer Science Is The New Sexy"

Category: Geekalicious

So much for the slow, steady progress over time theory.

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March 6, 2008

Welcome, Jane!

Category: Announcements

Lucky for Scienceblogs - Jane of See Jane Compute has just moved in with us! Scienceblogs has really needed someone from a computer science/engineering perspective. I am thrilled to pieces that she has signed on....

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Selling Your Blog With Cheesecake

Category: Gratuitous Sexism

Afarensis, I puke upon your pseudonymous shoes.

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Links for 3-6-2008

Category: Announcements

Bora has posted an interview with me at A Blog Around the Clock. See here for all the interviews in the series. He keeps adding new ones so check back now and then. Via the Chronicle news blog, I found...

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March 5, 2008

Links for 3-5-2008

Category: Announcements

Maria told me about WOC PhD. A link in this post led me to the Feminist Studies Collections: Women of Color & Women Worldwide pages, from which I hopped to the Women of Color page from the Wisconsin Women's Studies...

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March 4, 2008

Links for 3-4-2008

Category: Daily Struggles

Janet Stemwedel has a lengthy, informative, interesting post on that eternally troublesome question: When in my graduate career should I have a baby? After reading it, I am put in mind of that New Yorker cartoon with the guy on...

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March 3, 2008

Hungry for Dessert? Talk to Lab Cat!

Category: Friday Fare

Use the fork as your scale. That's a normal-sized fork. That's NOT a normal-sized piece of cake.

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