- Wikipedia bans five editors from gender-related articles amid gamergate controversy Neutral MY ASS.
- Start your own b(r)and: Everything I know about starting collaborative, feminist publications This is a really great guide written by Amelia Greenhall. Good stuff here.
- Life in the Sickest Town in America Some good points in here but there’s fat-phobia and ableism, too.
- One Week of Harassment on Twitter All the trigger warnings for this. I couldn’t make it through the whole thing. I cannot even conceive of what it is like to live through this. This kind of abuse for making a video series about the portrayal of women in video games and daring to speak up about it in public.
- Gaming while black: Casual racism to cautious optimism “Isolation and exclusion are the biggest issues facing black players and developers…It’s a weird phenomenon. Women and racial minorities, particularly blacks, constitute a huge portion of consumers of video games. But the gaming industry doesn’t reflect that.” The headline is really quite misleading.
- Thoughts on Hiring Processes (aka Starting/Building a Team) Great post from Crystal Huff about things organizations can do to help ensure diversity in hiring–for paid or volunteer positions.
- The third part of Book Riot’s Reading Diversely FAQ is up!
- Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job True that. Corporations are interested in one thing: profit.
- Trauma is the Truth Worth Talking About I thought this was a really good analysis of Jonathan Chait’s essay-thing-screed.
- America’s Beautiful Weather Zones I live on the line between frozen moonscape and air made of hot soup.
Marilyn from Mean Fat Old Bat sent me this and I find it to be marvelous so I share it with you all. (Marilyn, incidentally, is not the least bit mean; I can’t speak to the other adjectives.)
