Oh and also – talk amongst yourselves. It looks so dead here when I’m busy elsewhere. Tell stories, complain, argue, explain, debate. Keep the lights on. Twenty minutes before the first panel. Zoooooooooom.
Category Archive: Notes and Comment Blog
May 18 2013
Saturday morning at WiS2
No time! I was going to do a quick post last night just to say Rebecca Goldstein’s talk was brilliant, but using the lobby Wifi means one sees all one’s favorite people right in front of one – so, in short, I had deeply interesting conversations with Amanda Knief and Michael DeDora and Seanna Watson …
May 17 2013
Having fun yet
I’m hee-eere – in DC. Sorry for blackout day; technical difficulty due to obstincacy of travel notebook but I’m back now. PZ is over there finishing a post he started on the plane; lobby blogging. Stephanie took this in the hotel restaurant last night. I don’t think she’ll mind if I share it. That’s Jason …
May 15 2013
More documenting the harassment
May 15 Sigh. It just won’t stop. It’s a bit like taking mentions in a police report as a flattering form of interest. No. May 13 I managed five days without adding anything. Cause for optimism, don’t you think? AmbrosiaX tweets .@opheliabenson Surprise, surprise, you find a way to malign someone in another forum and …
May 15 2013
Imad Day
Maryam has a lovely message from Imad. (It was Imad day today, which I forgot to promote because of a deadline and a thing and another thing and an extended errand and leaving tomorrow). I don’t feel sorry for anything I have said or for the actions I have taken part in, including the 20th …
May 15 2013
“I will need a token woman”
From What Is It Like to be a Woman in Philosophy: “Don’t say shitty, undermining things”: how hard can that be? I was scheduled to be a speaker at a workshop in my area, which was canceled due to lack of funding. The conference organizer wrote this to me: unfortunately for the only other workshop …
May 15 2013
Policy as an affirmation of masculine identity
Gender policing? What gender policing? Garance Franke-Ruta says what gender policing. Niall Ferguson dismisses economist John Maynard Keynes’s work as the product of an “effete” sensibility more interested in talking ballet than building a family with his wife. Daily Caller writer Matthew K. Lewis blasts coverage of the gun control debate and declares, “Newsrooms should …
May 15 2013
Leaving tomorrow
Oh hey, I just remembered, the Women in Secularism conference starts on Friday. No I’m kidding, I didn’t just remember, but it kind of feels like it. Despite all the anticipation and discussion, a moment did arrive last week some time when I thought, “Oh, it’s almost now,” as if it had crept up on …
May 15 2013
When hashtags collide
A guest post by Athyco in a comment on A new way to stir up trouble. It has been a knotted mass of stupid from the beginning, and each one contributes their little bit to the mess. I looked over the comments to Karla’s It’s Personal blog post dismissing this WBC contact, then clicked on …
May 15 2013
A bad trend
Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three states in northern Nigeria because of the way Boko Haram keeps killing people. It is not the first time that the president has declared a state of emergency, but this is a clear admission that far from being weakened by the army offensive, the threat …
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