Posts tagged ‘gamers’
2012.05.22 and you will know us by the trail of linkspam (22nd May, 2012) (0)
Gamer girls, brogrammers, legos, tropes vs. women kickstarter, and more!
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Science fairs, sexism, academics, empathy, heroines, Mozilla, Python, Rails, more, and a few goodbyes.
Full Story »2011.03.29 The plight of the Straight, Male Gamer (20)
If you’re not a gamer, perhaps you haven’t seen this post entitled Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The Straight Male Gamer which complains about the romance options in Dragon Age II. [Warning: minor spoilers for ...
Full Story »2011.01.27 Everyone gets a linkspam! (27th January, 2011) (3)
Programming suggestions for WisCon, the feminist scifi convention, close tomorrow, Friday, 28 January. Anyone can submit an idea; just create a login. A recent IBM infomercial highlights the role of Patricia McHugh, designer of the ...
Full Story »2010.03.08 With a name like linkspam, it has to be good (8th March, 2010) (1)
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 ...
Full Story »2010.02.28 Organic freerange sustainably harvested linkspam, 28 February 2010 (1)
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 ...
Full Story »2010.02.09 Playing with women’s boundaries (11)
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 ...
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