Posts tagged ‘Media fandom’

Scholarships and grants: The GNOME Foundation have opened applications for travel grants to their GUADEC conference. Applications close April 27, 2009, 19:00 UTC (not mentioned on that page) The ESA is offering scholarships for women ...

jesstess at Stemming wants to motivate programming for a twelve year old girl. Head on over and give her ideas. There’s discussion following on from Cath Elliott’s admiration of The Lord of the Rings in ...

Like a lot of people, I think, I became an instant convert to the cult of Sady when I read her 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon last week. I’m a big 30 Rock ...

Author Info: Quixotess is a geek of wordplay, numberplay, names, history, easy logic puzzles, IRC, various works of fiction (particularly speculative fiction), certain aspects of theatre, and local geology. Not computers, though. She blogs at ...

I missed this when it was posted, but thought it was worth a quick hit. halfamoon is a celebration of women in fandom that occurs every February. This year, among the posts celebrating women characters, ...

This won’t be news to anyone who moves in fannish meta circles, but I thought it warranted a post for those who might not have encountered the discussion before now. Back in September, the Lambda ...

Liz Henry’s thoughts on geekitude got me wanting to post my own half-formed thoughts on the topic. (Crossposted from my personal blog at Skud’s suggestion.) Evidently I have the capacity to continuously raise my standard ...