She’s Such a Geek: “filling that void”
“Geeks may be the consummate outsiders in our cliquey culture,” writes Keely Savoie - and then she goes on to reveal that she’s one of us. The science and culture writer’s review of She’s Such a Geek for Bitch Magazine was the Powells.com July 1st Review-a-Day entry. She writes:
As a longtime geek myself, I know it takes no small amount of courage, fortitude, and blind passion to endure, let alone flourish, in such a vacuum. She’s Such a Geek fills that void with 23 tales from intrepid and undeterred women who gamely tell the tale of the issues they have had to confront.
July 10th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Your book arrived via amazon on Monday, much to my delight. I immediately interrupted my current bookclub book to start reading She’s Such A Geek, and I haven’t been able to put it down, which makes things challenging considering work, football practice, and the new Harry Potter game on Wii. I even made an announcement at a business meeting this morning that anyone who knows young women who might be geekily inclined to give them a copy.
Sometimes it’s easy to lose focus of how challenging being a woman in IT and design can be. your book has re-instilled a fighting spirit in me that i kindof lost the energy for after activism overload a few years back.
thanks for the reminder to be vigilant against complacency. She’s Such A Geek is an awesome, awesome book.