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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.
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Of course you want to read great women-and-science related blogs. Where to find them? Try the great blogrolls at:
- Sciencewomen
- Scientiae
- Women in Science
At Women in Science, the blogs are categorized by background of the blogger and/or blog topic. You'll also want to read the Scientiae carnivals - you'll frequently discover new and interesting blogs that way. You could check outLet's All Have A Party! for a list of birthdays of notable women in science and engineering - additions courtesy of Penny! Thanks, Penny! Or, you could visit Women in Science and check the nifty calendar widget there, courtesy of the Google calendar created by Miss Prism!
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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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Race Matters:
I found out about these two books from the Chronicle Review; haven't read either one, but they looked interesting and some of you may want to check them out. Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing by Jane...
Posted on October 9, 2008 3:39 PM • 1 Comments •
Mac commercials depend upon the stereotype of the PC user as a geeky un-cool white dude.
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Posted on October 1, 2008 4:16 PM • 29 Comments •
Authors Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy provide dos, don'ts, advice and support.
Posted on August 14, 2008 2:40 PM • 1 Comments •
The National Association of Scholars, in its tireless quest to have the little-noted perspective of the white man represented in our nation's colleges and universities, has succeeded in getting a pet project funded via the Higher Education Act reauthorization. As...
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Posted on August 6, 2008 2:36 PM • 5 Comments •
What makes you a member of family, or a citizen of a nation? Over at Sciencewoman, Alice reports on a session she attended at this year's NWSA conference: In a session on the technologies of citizenship, Banu Submramaniam of the...
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Posted on July 31, 2008 11:04 PM • 0 Comments •
Why would you celebrate Black Independence Day on July 3rd? It took the work of slaves to build America; the slaves came before the nation, so Black Independence Day would logically precede the traditional Independence Day, July 4th. On July...
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Posted on July 6, 2008 11:10 AM • 14 Comments •
Mr. Harbison and people like him wish to control the megaphone, to curtail the discourse.
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Posted on June 30, 2008 3:03 PM • 7 Comments •
I will admit that rap music has more than once caused me to mutter "These kids today! Their music is just noise! When I was young, our music had a melody!" Or something like that. You know, the stuff mom...
Posted on June 18, 2008 11:13 PM • 9 Comments •
Should be required viewing in all our schools.
Posted on April 5, 2008 10:05 PM • 5 Comments •
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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Posted on March 13, 2008 3:06 PM • 20 Comments •
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...
Posted on March 5, 2008 6:41 PM • 0 Comments •
Maybe you've been wondering just exactly how few women scientists and engineers there are in academia in the U.S. Or, to put it another way, maybe you've wondered just exactly how much men scientists and engineers are overrepresented in academia....
Posted on February 27, 2008 1:48 PM • 14 Comments •
In the face of that, I have to seriously ask myself if I should stick with Scienceblogs.
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Posted on February 12, 2008 12:46 PM • 24 Comments •
Since Jim Watson's recent self-destruction, there's been a lot of talk about pseudo-scientific racism versus actual "scientific" studies of race. Earlier this summer, Lennard J. Davis had an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled A Grand Unified Theory...
Posted on October 27, 2007 10:01 AM • 0 Comments •
By now everyone knows that Jim Watson has resigned his position at CSHL. But the damage he's done will live on long afterwards. Consider this comment from a reader (emphasis added): As a non-scientist, I'd like to point out an...
Posted on October 26, 2007 3:06 PM • 8 Comments •
PZ Myers is a really nice person and I love Pharyngula - I just spent a nice half hour reading it, and among other good stuff I encountered there was a link in this post to Robert Hooke's notebooks online....
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Posted on October 24, 2007 9:04 PM • 11 Comments •
Academic freedom doesn't exist to benefit people who twist or ignore science to serve lies.
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Posted on October 19, 2007 6:53 PM • 37 Comments •
From the BBC News: The Science Museum has cancelled a talk by American DNA pioneer Dr James Watson after he claimed black people were less intelligent than white people...saying his views went "beyond the point of acceptable debate". Skills Minister...
Posted on October 18, 2007 1:48 PM • 9 Comments •
Jim Watson is a consummate ass. I don't care if he discovered the secret of life, the universe, and everything, he's still a misogynistic racist miserable S.O.B.
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Posted on October 17, 2007 4:30 PM • 30 Comments •
I saw this advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War Over College Affirmative Action, by Peter Schmidt. Schmidt is a deputy editor at the Chronicle. I don't have a...
Posted on September 10, 2007 4:42 PM • 0 Comments •
By way of the Chronicle news blog: The National Institutes of Health has released new guidance about its policies on diversity and on child care. One set of guidelines, or "frequently asked questions," released Friday, concerns the NIH's efforts to...
Posted on August 29, 2007 4:25 PM • 1 Comments •
G.I. Joe rampaged through the prom with his gun and took Barbie hostage.
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Posted on August 14, 2007 3:11 AM • 16 Comments •
>"Physicists talk in metaphor all the time,"
Posted on June 21, 2007 5:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Maybe Gracie could sit Cathy down for a chat...
Posted on May 14, 2007 5:22 PM • 0 Comments •
They don't even track data on minority membership.
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Posted on May 4, 2007 5:39 PM • 11 Comments •
Imagine this headline: "High School Shooters Were White Students"
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Posted on May 1, 2007 9:25 PM • 12 Comments •
...veiled attempts to protect the in-group...
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Posted on April 25, 2007 5:29 PM • 20 Comments •
Isn't diversity what those Other people have? You know, sort of like a disease.
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Posted on February 8, 2007 9:02 PM • 8 Comments •
I like to scan the New Scholarly Books section of the Chronicle of Higher Education; every so often, something interesting in History of Science or Women's Studies pops up. Recently I saw a little blurb under history of science that...
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Posted on February 6, 2007 2:16 PM • 0 Comments •
People ought to know their place and keep to it.
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Posted on November 21, 2006 9:30 AM • 1 Comments •
Belonging to a group like MUA just might reduce your daily need to puke on somebody's shoes.
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Posted on November 8, 2006 5:38 PM • 0 Comments •
So I'm at a conference where the majority of attendees are white males. Well, after all, it is an engineering conference. Anyway, given the demographics, do you expect to walk into any particular parallel session and find that there are...
Posted on October 31, 2006 9:37 PM • 10 Comments •
Where are the women blogging on science & gender & race?
Posted on October 20, 2006 12:41 PM • 8 Comments •
