Brownfemipower has stopped blogging. So has blackamazon. I just thought I’d fill you in.
Feministe responds to the issue
When any of us have a soapbox, an opportunity to get up and talk, we must continue to stand by those who aren’t called on. If you want to consider yourself an anti-racist or a white ally to people of color — if you want anyone else to consider you those things — then it behooves you to swim against the current. If everyone did, perhaps the tides would turn, even if it was just in our corner of the blogosphere.
I wish this hadn’t happened. I never really got the chance to look at BFP’s writing in detail, but what I read of her blog was very powerful. It’s terrible that she should be driven from blogging like this. Equally with blackamazon. I just hope that it serves as a lesson to everyone (it has certainly made me re-think what feminism stands for a great deal), and that they returns when they each feel that they are ready.
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May 4, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Matt Gates
Closest I could find thus far is mention of women in electrical communication, see:
http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159251&lid=1
This may have some of what your looking for:
‘One example of that influence is in the history of communication. Electrical communication is a field that includes technologies ranging from the telegraph and the telephone to satellite communications. Although famous men such as Samuel Morse and Guglielmo Marconi are well known as inventors in this field, women played major, if lesser-known, roles as operators and users of new and developing technologies. That is, women were often central in what is often the key point in the history of a technology—the time when an invention moves from the laboratory into practical use.’
May 4, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Matt Gates
Also, a woman called Hertha Marks Ayrton seems to be the first woman I could find who has something to do with electricity (more involved in maths tho) she was ‘the first female member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1899′
http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRIDDLE/WOMEN/ayrton.htm
May 4, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Caitlin
Ta Matt - have emailed my ma the link
It’s not quite what she needs, but interesting nonetheless. I think the only way to truly know would be to go back in time, which alas we cannot. And yeah, your comment posted, just on the wrong blog! Hey ho.