[hs-equality] schedule a hangout?

[Koen Martens]

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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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