Latinas in Tech News from Dr. Nutmeg’s Femmebots
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 …
The year is 2050 on Planet MyAmi. The evil Femmebots are a crew of bad girlz who invented the “Boob Tube,” breast implants that allow them to shoot brainwashing multimedia at anyone who stares too long. “I really have to thank the private equity B-O-Yz we worked for in Coconut Grove for inspiring this lucrative …
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Tuesday, April 21 SAN FRANCISCO – I show up at 8 p.m. at the Rickshaw wearing a comfortable black dress and boots cuz tonight is gonna be an ass-shakin night with Buraka Som Sistema – Lil’ John, Riot and Conductor, and MC Kalaf. I’ve seen their videos on YouTube (along with 1.7 million other viewers), …
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March 28, 2009 It’s already 1:30am when I finally arrive at the O.H.W.O.W. space in Little Haiti for the U Don’t Like Me, I Don’t Like You multimedia extravaganza. It is going off with Dubstep beats and it feels like a proper warehouse party…finally after the cheese of South Beach, here we are in one …
March 27, 2009 Words and photos download by Virtual Gypsy & Femmebot MIAMI – In the center of Little Haiti, where rude B-O-Ys are known to thrash about in a pub called Churchills, I stand in a corner observing and scanning tonight’s headliners as if it’s possible to remain unaffected by the rowdy scene, although …
Thursday, March 26, 2009 MIAMI BEACH – Winter Music Conference 2009 has officially begun, and the Scion party at the Gansevoort Hotel on 24th and Collins is the first event I’ve RSVP’d for…I’m a bit late… hoping I haven’t missed the entire party…I walk in as DJ Erol Aitken is winding up video game beats. …
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 MIAMI BEACH – We drink a couple of $9 cocktails on Collins Avenue, then at the dive bar Deuce on 14th Street, and pile into the pick-up truck to the other side of the Causeway, 1306 North Miami Avenue, where the Plastician is dropping heavy beats into the pit of my …