Tag: women

  • Which Siobhan is it anyway?

    I was messaged yesterday on Skype by a friend who pointed to an exchange in the #wordpress irc chat room. The exchange went as follows: Person 1: Need to ping siobahn ! Person 2: The hot chick or the other one Person 1: The WP organizer for WCLND Feel free to go back and read…

  • My Interview on Women in WordPress

    I was interviewed for Raelene Wilson’s recent article on women in WordPress on WPMU.org. As an ex-WPMU.org writer, I was happy to answer all of the questions. Just one small quote made it into the article, and since I wrote a lot (I’m an expansive interviewee 🙂 ) I thought I’d post the interview in…

  • Women, Academia, Philosophy, Power

    Around this time six years ago I was putting together my AHRC application to do a PhD in Philosophy at Warwick. I was going to write my thesis on Spinoza and Nietzsche’s conception of truth. I was really looking forward to it. Then I fell out with my prospective supervisor and I decided not to…