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Mary is a women in tech activist, a programmer, a writer, and a sometime computational linguist. She writes at puzzling.org. Her previous projects include co-founding the Ada Initiative and major contributions to the Geek Feminism blog. She's @me_gardiner on Twitter.

• Sydney Silly Season meetup planning thread

  By Mary on 2010-10-23 • ( 14 )

  

  Your input needed in planning a Sydney Silly Season meetup!

• Friday Hoyden: Ursula K. Le Guin

  By Mary on 2010-10-22 • ( 22 )

  

  tigtog asked if someone could do a Friday Hoyden piece on Ursula K. Le Guin for her 80th birthday… last year. Le Guin’s 81st birthday was yesterday on the 21st October 2010: this is going up in time for it to still be her birthday in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.

• Not guilty!

  By Mary on 2010-10-14 • ( 9 )

  Tegan Leach and her partner Sergie Brennan have been acquitted:

• 29th Down Under Feminists Carnival, curated by bluebec

  By Mary on 2010-10-05 • ( 1 )

  

  The 29th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at bluebec’s place!

• Sydney University colleges: after “Define Statutory”

  By Mary on 2010-09-28 • ( 7 )

  

  Last year residents of St Paul’s College at the University of Sydney formed a Facebook page that described itself as “pro-rape, anti-consent”. What ended up being changed in response?

• If you can’t defend yourself, you shouldn’t be allowed to speak

  By Mary on 2010-09-27 • ( 7 )

  

  James Massola’s outing of Grog’s Gamut‘s legal name and position in The Australian is an example of silencing of the less powerful: anyone who will not or cannot expose all of their words present and past, their name, their face, their body, their clothes, their family to mass scrutiny is being denied the ability to have political influence.

• Firefox Bookmarklet to help with Down Under Feminists Carnival submissions

  By Mary on 2010-09-26 • ( 10 )

  

  I’ve developed a Firefox bookmarklet that pre-fills most of the submission fields for the Down Under Feminists Carnival. Submit today!

• Laws requiring early electoral roll closure ruled unconstitutional

  By Mary on 2010-08-06 • ( 9 )

  From SMH, news just in: The High Court have ruled that Howard-era laws which close the electoral rolls on e day that writs for an election are issue are invalid… Activist group GetUp! brought the constitutional challenge, arguing the laws… Read More ›

• Reading the policies: the Coalition’s parental leave consultation document

  By Mary on 2010-07-28 • ( 10 )

  My attitude to the vast bulk of elections, including the 2010 Federal election, is “I don’t like any of this, please get me out of here”. I usually intend to make an informed decision based on policies and then have… Read More ›

• The lamb roast roundup: Mums and censorship

  By Mary on 2010-06-01 • ( 6 )

  Feminist criticism of the “It’s Time to Tell Mum” anti-filtering campaign has shown up on several blogs: