Archive for August, 2009

Margaret Atwood doesn’t think she writes science fiction. Ursula K Le Guin would like to disagree. (A review of “Year of the Flood”.) sarahtales takes on Uhura, Harriet Potter, and Jo from Little Women and ...

Dale Chase sings a beautiful geeky ballad to his Coder Girl. Wow, it’s my new favorite song! Did she just tell him to sudo make her a sandwich?! I think so! I’ll put it like ...

We talk a lot about computer programming, science fiction, gaming, and the like here, but I know that many of us have other geeky interests. So, two questions for you all! What is your secret, ...

I can’t remember how I found this post (probably looking at linkbacks from FeministSF), but I’m so glad I did. It breaks down the number of women who’ve directed episodes of Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: ...

As this is my first post, I’ll offer an introduction before I begin. Hi there, I’m Tempest, and am indeed a geek. A rare unicorn of a geek since I am not only a woman, ...

Tonight’s PTA meeting rocked my socks off. My daughter’s school is a poor school – 67% of our students qualify for free and reduced price lunches – in an urban district in a bankrupt state. ...

There’s an argument that comes up a lot in (geek) feminism discussions: This isn’t a problem with $community, it’s a problem with society This is used to explain everything from distasteful jokes to someone’s inability ...