I’m watching this stupid new show called “The Bold Type” as a study in women at work…and as I watch the editor in chief mentor the bratty little girls who are totally self-absorbed and only focused on their careers…I am inspired but also feeling like I completely failed at mentoring the millennial women who were …
The Femmebots are in Silicon Valley this week to attend a couple of ACM.org local events, starting with this talk about autonomous vehicles with Beverly May, Executive Director of the UX Awards uxawards.org, the premier global awards for exceptional UX. The next Awards is October 4-5 2017 in Palo Alto. Event Details What it will be …
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Mon, September 11 3pm – 4pm How to execute a data-driven growth strategy: A workshop for Startup Founders and Growth Hackers Growth is critical to the future of your business, but doing so strategically and consistently can be one of the greatest challenges that startup founders face. In this workshop, we’ll chat about three critical …
I am a Femmebot. What’s a Femmebot? A Femmebot is a Basic Bitch. It means I have standardized programming. I have no original thought. I believe what has been fed to me since I was a child. Before the label “Basic Bitch” entered our urban lexicon, I always suspected I was a Femmebot. A robot …
I was born a girl. Female. My parents raised me in pink. I even wear rose-colored glasses to pretend I can’t see anything that is unpleasant or unjust or unsavory so I can remain “sweet” like a girl. I was the girly girl in the family obsessed with Barbie, while my sister was the “tomboy.” …
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Follow us here! NEW YORK, New York, August 1, 2017 — The Femmebots hope to raise $9,230 between Aug 1-Sept 5 to bring their animated web series about female techies of color to Tribeca Now and Vimeo On Demand this Fall. Today The Multimedia District launches The Femmebots Animated Web Series on crowd-funding site Kickstarter. http://kck.st/2tR1XT3 The …
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The Femmebots who live @91Broadway in 21st Century Williamsburg change jobs, boyfriends and cities as frequently as their fashion…until one day, they dream of finding true love and creating a more traditional lifestyle. But is tradition possible in an age of endless choices and adversity to conflict?
In the story, The Femmebots build a fictional app that converts racist and sexist Tweets into culturally sensitive video in 10 seconds or less. If you email us a Tweet that you or someone else wrote, The Femmebots will convert it into a 30-second video or animation using Creative Commons images and/or video for you …
I went to Beacon this weekend for an Alpha Retreat with 5 men and 1 woman. It’s supposed to be a time when people are supposed to be filled with the Holy Spirit, thus changing their lives forever. It felt a bit forced, to be completely honest. By 40, I have learned to move in my own time …
We are all reborn. Eggs of different colors with same yolks inside We all want to be loved Rotten eggs depending on the season It’s only because our shells thin out over time as the weather and Earth’s elements bang down and crack us open until the vultures swoop in for the feasting We are …