Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “gender”

Genders.WTF

The Bumpy Typeface project challenges us to rethink our assumptions about gender through type design

itsnicethat.com/articles/beatrice-caciotti-graphic-design-180821

Italian designer Beatrice Caciotti’s research shows us how gendered connotations have made their way into the genealogy of type design.

The ‘I’m Not Like the Other Guys’ Guy Is Exactly Like the Other Guys

melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-im-not-like-the-other-guys-guy-is-exactly-like-the-other-guys

The Road to Terfdom – Lux Magazine

lux-magazine.com/article/the-road-to-terfdom/

Decades of research reveals very little difference between male and female brains - The Academic Times

academictimes.com/decades-of-research-reveals-very-little-difference-between-male-and-female-brains/

Your company's Slack is probably sexist — Quartz at Work

qz.com/work/1128150/your-companys-slack-is-probably-sexist/

How to collect gender data – Samsung Internet Developers – Medium

medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/how-to-collect-gender-data-a29f3be2257c

So you are writing a form or building a website where you’re collecting data from your users, you want to add in a gender field. Why? Asking for someone’s gender may be for a variety of purposes…

Respectful Collection of Demographic Data – Sarai Rosenberg – Medium

medium.com/@anna.sarai.rosenberg/respectful-collection-of-demographic-data-56de9fcb80e2

Demographic data may be critical to your mission. This article establishes guidelines for respectful design and language for collecting demographic data.

Dear Microsoft: absolutely not. | monica byrne

monicacatherine.com/2017/04/05/dear-microsoft-no/

Programmed Inequality | The MIT Press

mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality

Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber — Susan J. Fowler

susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber

As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in my mind, so here we go.

Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interest

qntm.org/gay

And then they hit "submit" and the information is filed away electronically in databases which simply keel over or belch integrity errors when presented with something so profound as a man and another man who love each other enough to want to file joint tax returns.