Posts tagged ‘fantasy’

Linkspammed today: AdaCamp, gender binary science kits, Twilight and more.

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

What do a PSA about backups, pseudonymity advocacy, Wikipedia and Hermione Granger have in common? They’re all linkspammed today.

Women in genre fiction, a non-physicist at CERN, open journal access as a feminist issue, and more!

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men: If white, male elites started saying, I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white ...

Four inspiring women have left us in the space of the past week. Diana Wynne Jones, acclaimed British fantasy author, lost her life on Saturday at 76. Ms. Jones’s work is critically acclaimed. Several of her ...

Short notice and all, but if you’re in Northampton, Massachusetts and bored this weekend, then ConBust might be worth your while. There’s a whole list of fantastic and broadly varying topics on the schedule page. Some ...

Wednesday Geek Woman submissions are currently open. A version of this post appeared a few weeks ago at Hoyden About Town. A little capsule summary for people who haven’t read her work: Ursula K. Le ...

(Warning: intersectionality problems.) Feminism is no longer about sexism at all: It’s fascinating the extent to which women have been shamed out of even claiming a movement to address sexism. We just aren’t allowed to ...

[Trigger warning: as you probably realized from the title, this post discusses the (overuse) of rape in fantasy settings] I’m going to start with saying that I thought the Penny Arcade comic was actually pretty ...

Sexism at Work: Young Women, NEWSWEEK and Gender: NEWSWEEK was the subject of a gender-discrimination case in 1970. Young women currently working at NEWSWEEK reflect on the case and the current state of the battle. ...

The James Tiptree, Jr. award is a yearly “prize for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender.” The award council has just announced that the winners, for work published in ...

You’re probably all familiar with the inverse law of fantasy armour for women: the less the armour covers, the more it somehow miraculously protects. Liz Walsh writes and draws the entertaining web comic Tao of ...

Role Playing Girl Zine, a yearly publication about women in gaming, is seeking “submissions of essays by women gamers, designers, researchers and others interested in role playing games.” Cartoons also welcome. The 2010 theme: “International ...

Barbie.com – I Can Be: Vote for Barbie's next career: 'Computer Engineer' is one of the options. Let's make it happen! How objectification silences women – the male glance as a psychological muzzle: Ed Yong ...

It’s that time of the fortnight again: The 11th Carnival of Feminists – Global Edition! is live. The next carnival is on January 20, and accepting submissions of new feminist posts. A Softer World: 518: ...