Posts tagged ‘Gaming’

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are Moran Paldi, game designer; Leena van Deventer, gaming writing; and Catriona Wimberley, medical physics student.

Linkspammed today: is geek feminism feminist enough, pronoun swap the Internet, and racism in Silicon Valley.

I recently found a means of quiet rebellion, not a revolution, mind you, but a personal epiphany: Ladies Dungeons & Dragons night.

Tired of hearing the same arguments regarding sexism in games? Here’s a sexism in games bingo card by @fireholly99. Trigger Warning: Includes mention of violence against women. Additional Warning: This card has been copied verbatim ...

A skeptic finds menstrual synchrony evidence unconvincing, Elizabeth Bear doesn’t think the technological singularity is all that, men get more from professional networking, and more.

A woman refuses to date a Magic: The Gathering geek, hilarity, by which we mean hideous misogyny, ensues.

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

Women’s security scholarships, clothing dilemmas portrayed, sexism in geek culture broadly, and more.

Apparently game company Good Old Games' booth at PAX prime this year featured booth grandmas passing out cookies. I was worried the PAX coverage would just make me sad that I couldn’t make it this ...

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!

Black and WTF: photographs of suffragettes. In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera to covertly photograph suffragettes. A bit of an oldie, but relevant to our recent Google+ discussions: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ...

I’m going to admit, I haven’t played Mass Effect 2, but I’ve definitely been hearing good things about playing the main character as a woman. There’s lots of good reasons your leading lady may be ...

There are a lot of covers are the mario bros theme, but Jimmy Wong’s version is especially cute and singable because it goes beyond the source to make something really fun: And as if the ...

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 ...

Win a Scholarship to National Computer Camp: GamingAngels.com and National Computer Camp (NCC) are offering a scholarship for NCC’s June/July 2011 enrollment valued at $985 to a female student (ages 8-18) for one week.
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