Comments on: Gender and Technology at IgniteSydney (with presentation slides)

By: SsexBbox: Gender is a text field « Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed

SsexBbox: Gender is a text field « Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:43:47 +0000

[...] words we use to communicate are the tools with which we teach each other—and our software—about …, who we are, who we like, and why. Designing sexist systems might sound brain-dead, but it’s [...]

By: Kink On Tap » Blog Archive » On Passports, Mother and Father Will Soon Be ‘Parent 1′ and ‘Parent 2′

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:13:49 +0000

[...] The terms "mother" and "father" on US passport applications are being replaced with the gender-neutral terms "Parent 1" and "Parent 2". Jennifer Chrisler of the Family Equality Council said the change "allows many different types of families to be able to go and apply for a passport…without feeling like the government doesn't recognize their family." Naturally, anti-gay hate groups like the Family Research Council are outraged, saying the change "violates the spirit if not the letter of the Defense of Marriage Act." The change also highlights a staggeringly underreported issue: the technological infrastructure our society uses to classify people. Changing terms on forms costs real dollars, but perhaps counterintuitively, a gender-neutral infrastructure is not just more humane, it's more cost-effective, too. [...]

By: Why Advocating Both Privacy and Transparency is not Hypocritical « Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:09:09 +0000

[...] The lynchpin here is a multi-faceted notion of identity. You have a legal identity, a personal identity, a physical identity, a gender identity, a sexual identity, a political identity, an erotic author identity, and so on. Ideally, these identities don’t need to be coupled unless you want one of them to gain the reputation—the credibility—accrued from another. Historically, it’s been difficult to decouple some identities from one another (physical and gendered, for instance), but technology is changing that. [...]

By: Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed › Femquake Fallout: Feminism, the Internet and Boobquake (and Brainquake)

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:03:58 +0000

[...] not “Gender,” since those two words are not actually interchangeable. See also: Gender and Technology. [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:49:13 +0000

Any idea when this was posted?

By: Meitar Moscovitz (maymaym) 's status on Sunday, 08-Nov-09 22:58:01 UTC - Identi.ca

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:58:16 +0000

[...] http://maymay.net/blog/2009/01/22/gender-and-technology-at-ignitesydney-with-presentation-slides/ a few seconds ago from web [...]

By: Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed › Don’t you fret, sexism is alive and well in BDSM

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:19:27 +0000

[...] What Kind of ManNow it’s all the little thingsToo many tears: My first morning back in NYCGender and Technology at IgniteSydney (with presentation slides)I’m getting a book published and it’s called Foundation Website [...]

By: Sex 2.0 2009 post roundup : Sex 2.0

Sex 2.0 2009 post roundup : Sex 2.0 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:31:48 +0000

[...] MayMay Gender and Technology at IgniteSydney KinkForAll and the Evolution of Sexuality Communities [...]

By: Various thoughts post-KinkForAll « Clarisse Thorn: BDSM Outreach

Various thoughts post-KinkForAll « Clarisse Thorn: BDSM Outreach — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:09:59 +0000

[...] * Maymay gave a fantastic talk on gender and technology making the fantastic point that we really need to be communicating with web designers, because they are encoding so much of how we think about gender and sexuality. As a simple example, the people who create social networking sites are influencing our ideas about sex and gender because they are making the drop-down menus we use to express that: for instance, compare your average social networking site — where you can pick “Straight”, “Gay” or if you’re lucky “Bisexual” — to FetLife, which offers many more options — “Straight”, “Heteroflexible”, “Bisexual”, “Gay”, “Lesbian”, “Queer”, “Pansexual”, and “Fluctuating/Evolving”. You can find the slides and links from Maymay’s presentation here. [...]

By: Meitar

Meitar — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:59:21 +0000

Thanks, Sigrid. I'd be happy to present this again—I might even be able to do a better job the second time around—so if you hear of an upcoming IgniteSanFrancisco or other place that might be interested in having me present this, please let me know about it. :)

By: Sigrid

Sigrid — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:31:04 +0000

As someone who was fascinated by the concept when you posted about it, I sincerely hope you consider finding the opportunity to do it again once you reach San Francisco. Good to hear that things went well in Sydney, though!

By: Meitar

Meitar — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:47:05 +0000

Thank you so much, Maxine, that's incredibly kind of you to say! :) I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to speak at Ignite (I didn't even realize you were actually present, just that Web Directions was a sponsor) and I sincerely hope we get the opportunity to cross paths once again before I leave.

By: Maxine Sherrin

Maxine Sherrin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:22:48 +0000

Yes, this presentation would almost certainly have sparked a better conversation in the places you mention, but I’m so glad you didn’t let this fact discourage you. In a sea of convention, you challenged, Meitar. Sydney web community needs more people like you – so sorry to see you are leaving before I’ve even got to know you.