https://sebastianspicker.github.io/tags/feminism/ Recent content in Feminism on Sebastian Spicker https://sebastianspicker.github.io/og-image.png https://sebastianspicker.github.io/og-image.png Hugo -- 0.160.0 en Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://sebastianspicker.github.io/posts/generic-masculine-mental-representations/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 https://sebastianspicker.github.io/posts/generic-masculine-mental-representations/ German masculine role nouns can be intended to include everyone, yet experiments often find men more readily available in readers’ responses. What those experiments measure, why alternative forms differ, and where the evidence stops before claims about equality or the perfect spelling. https://sebastianspicker.github.io/posts/leavitt-period-luminosity-distance/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100 https://sebastianspicker.github.io/posts/leavitt-period-luminosity-distance/ Henrietta Leavitt found a relation between the periods and brightnesses of twenty-five variable stars. Reconstructing her 1912 data shows why a shared distance makes the discovery possible, why a calibration is still missing, and why measuring photographic plates was intellectual work rather than a preliminary step before the science began. https://sebastianspicker.github.io/posts/lovelace-symbols-music-bernoulli/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100 https://sebastianspicker.github.io/posts/lovelace-symbols-music-bernoulli/ Ada Lovelace’s 1843 notes connect a calculation of Bernoulli numbers to a much larger idea: operations can act on represented relationships, including musical ones. Her account also draws a boundary around machine originality that remains worth reading carefully.