Archive for February, 2010

In multiple posts, Lucy Connor continues thinking about possible costs of diversity N.K. Jemisin considers how she accidentally wrote a postfeminist protagonist in her new fantasy series Maura McHugh, aka Splinster laments the SF industry’s ...

I’ve just had a conversation with an acquaintance in which he proudly showed off a PSA-style advertisement that a friend of his made. The advertisement makes play on a very real and very problematic trope ...

As many of you heard, Mattel had allowed internet voting to get help in choosing Barbie’s next career. The choice was announced: the girls wanted Barbie to be a news anchor. But that’s not the ...

From the subverting stereotypes file: In an interview with Sherry Turkle, Christine Alvarado credits playing with My Little Pony for fostering her love for mathematics… (edit: was Christine, not Sherry as I originally published. oops, ...

You might have noticed — I’ve made the jump from recidivist guest blogger to regular this week. This transition is beside the point, but it is related to this post as my second guest article ...

Warning: this post discusses intimate partner violence and rape. Please place a trigger warning on links to this post. If you are currently at risk of violence, here are some links for viewing when you’re ...

Trigger warning: contains mentions of implied sexual assault. Between around 2000 and 2005, mostly during my second and third attempts at tertiary study, I racked up substantially more than one year’s worth of time in ...

A few relevant things are going on in March which our readers might find interesting. The first off the rank is International Women’s Day (IWD) which will be on March 8th. From the website: International ...

Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers. Not a new theory, just updated research. One of the researchers says, “It’s actually surprising in a way, and not. People have had a hunch that teachers ...