Posts tagged ‘Comics fandom’

Linkspammed: GNOME Women’s Outreach, swearing in the work place, poor people and ebooks, and more.

Haecken CFP, gay YA, toxic menstruating women, and more.

Do women and startups mix? Was Battlestar Galactica that good? Is dressing up in Leia’s slave costume empowering? All linkspammed today.

Donna Benjamin is trying to raise money to get The National Library of Australia to digitise The Dawn, Louisa Lawson’s Australian journal for women from the nineteenth century. Joseph Reagle has posted the introduction to ...

Russell Coker writes about conferences designed for people on the autism spectrum. In summary NTs seem to think that Autism Spectrum Disorders are only about socialisation, not realising that for many people on the Spectrum ...

The makeup for this show: phenomenal. Cross posted at From Austin to A&M.  Like any good geek, I love me some zombies. So of course I tuned in last night to AMC’s new zombie ...

My Fault, I’m Female is collecting short personal stories of experiences of sexism. The Westboro Baptist Church (famously and aggressively homophobic) protested at Comic-Con for “worship of false idols”. Comics Alliance reports on the cosplay ...

tigtog highlights editorials and articles in Nature questioning sex bias in medical testing, particularly the exclusion of pregnant subjects. harpers_child is angry: Batman fans asked DC Comics for a in-comic memorial for Stephanie Brown, a ...

Technology for “keeping kids safe” unsurprisingly sometimes serves a dual purpose, as Lauredhel points out: Your kids’ ’secure’ online chats being sold to marketers Pink Brain, Blue Brain: Claims of sex differences fall apart. Newsweek ...

Wordweaverlynn, over on LiveJournal, has a post asking people about their nightmare con experiences (especially at science fiction conventions, but others too.) It’s not really surprising to read how many of the bad experiences are ...