[hs-equality] schedule a hangout?

Mitch Altman maltman23 at hotmail.com
Sun Jan 20 20:18:37 CET 2013


I'm cool with the Sunday the 27th.

Mitch.


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> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:10:31 +0100
> From: gmc at sonologic.nl
> To: equality at lists.hackerspaces.org
> Subject: Re: [hs-equality] schedule a hangout?
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> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 07:34:09PM -0500, Katie Bechtold wrote:
> > The 27th could work for me, but probably not the 26th.
>
> Same here!
>
> > --
> > Katie
> > On Jan 14, 2013 2:44 PM, "Georgia Guthrie" <georgia at thehacktory.org>
> > wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> > Sorry I've been absent from this list too. I also volunteered to take
> > over coordinating the next meeting from Rubin and really dropped the
> > ball on that.
> > Given the recent discussions, shall we try to find a time for a
> > hangout? As I recall, scheduling things around 4 or 5 pm EST on a
> > weekend worked well in the past. How about Jan 26th or 27th? If
> > people are game I'll look up the to-do's we made last time so we can
> > check on our progress.
> >
> > I've also been interested in the discussion about gender issues here
> > and the fallout from the creeper cards at CCC. I agree with others
> > that the cards don't seem to have been very constructive themselves,
> > but they do create an opportunity for people to point to instances of
> > when they are made to feel like outsiders because of their gender in
> > our community, and talking about it is the first step toward changing
> > it.
> >
> > From the exercise The Hacktory has started doing on the Gender_Gap,
> > I've started to hear from male participants that many women
> > stereotype men's abilities with technology, which is annoying at
> > least, but can also be really uncomfortable for them. I know it's
> > something I've done in the past, but I never considered how little
> > space men have to admit when they don't know something in this field.
> > Being comfortable with technology is wrapped up with gender
> > identities in our (US for me, don't want to speak for others though)
> > culture, and everyone perpetuates this; men, women, bi, queer, gay,
> > etc, . I would be interested in figuring out a way to pull this apart
> > on hackerequality.org.
> >
> > If anyone's interested, I've been reading Daring Greatly by Brene
> > Brown on this topic (see her 2nd TED_talk if you want) and I think
> > her exploration of vulnerability related to gender is really
> > interesting.
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing about when people can hangout!
> >
> > -Georgia
> >
> >
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