Posts tagged ‘gender’

A tool to help fix sexism in tech, short fiction, Sweden’s gender-neutral pronoun, female characters, a gamer explanation of privilege, women in Magic, and sexism in comics.

Cross-posted at From Austin to A&M. I just returned from the PCA/ACA conference in Boston this year, where I presented a paper on geek women presenting themselves as “sexy,” focusing on cosplay. My presentation had ...

Cross-posted at Doctor Her. Post-Gallifrey, I was interviewed at i09 about the phenomenon of femme Doctor cosplay. If you’re not familiar with it, femme cosplay is when female cosplayers alter the costumes of male characters ...

Smurfs intruded by vinylmeister. This has been a great year for male writers, with women shunted aside for major prizes and all-new hand-wringing about why it is so. Because, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, ...

Cori Roberts is founder of Gameinatrix.com and remaining founding member of Gamer Girls Radio, and has been involved in gaming media for over 8 years. She’s currently obsessed with the MMO Fallen Earth and anything ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Several recent studies have suggested that the gender gap in STEM fields is caused not by bias, but simply by different choices made by men and women. What ...

Cross-posted at Restructure! There is sexism in tech culture. However, I continue to love tech, because I think of the sexism as a separate, unnecessary appendage to pure tech. I cannot think of sexism as ...