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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.

• Update on “We Will Not Go Quietly” zine: now fundraising for printed copies

  By Mary on 2012-10-10

  

  The editors of We Will Not Go Quietly, a zine by survivors of sexual assault, have prepared a PDF version, but cannot afford to print as many copies as they’d like. They have set up a Pozible campaign.

• Tech tip: Did I miss the Amara memo? Easy subtitling!

  By Mary on 2012-08-23 • ( 1 )

  

  Amara (Universal Subtitles) is great stuff! You submit the URL into the Amara website and a tool opens up that lets you enter subtitles for the video, in three easy (or easier than I thought!) steps.

• Book Week: Looking For Alibrandi

  By Mary on 2012-08-22 • ( 3 )

  

  In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how I read Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi when I was in high school.

• Book Week: Playing Beatie Bow

  By Mary on 2012-08-21 • ( 7 )

  

  In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow affected me as a young teenage reader.

• Weekend womanscraft: winter warmers

  By Mary on 2012-08-11 • ( 7 )

  

  Warming bellies with cream of mushroom soup, slow cooked meat, apple crumble and other noms. What are you cooking this winter?

• Sunday Series: Discworld

  By Mary on 2012-04-15 • ( 12 )

  

  It’s been a couple of years since an entirely gratuitous Terry Pratchett thread, and a Twitter discussion asked about favourite Pratchett novels, with a focus on readers new to Pratchett. What think you?

• Sydney Hoydenizen/femmoblog meetup March: planning thread

  By Mary on 2012-02-27 • ( 4 )

  

  I propose a meetup for March. It will likely be south of the harbour this time. If you’d like to come along, please indicate your preferred date at this Doodle poll.

• Thursday Internet Tradition: Not Quite Feminist Phil

  By Mary on 2012-02-23 • ( 7 )

  

  Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of Not Quite Feminist Phil!

• Whoydensday quick link: new feminist Doctor Who blog!

  By Mary on 2012-02-22 • ( 2 )

  

  For Doctor Who fans, a new blog has launched, Doctor Her. Doctor Her is the brainchild of Courtney Stoker, who has also written about Doctor Who for Geek Feminism.

• The 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival

  By Mary on 2012-01-29 • ( 10 )

  

  This is the 44th monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together December 2011 feminist posts from writers living in Australia and New Zealand.