[hs-equality] schedule a hangout?

[Katie Bechtold]

The 27th could work for me, but probably not the 26th.

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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<http://www.thehacktory.org/?p=2737>,
> 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<http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html>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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