Posts tagged ‘SF fandom’

It is so splendid when excellent people are recognized for their excellence! It’s delightful that Octavia Butler won a posthumous Solstice Award and that Connie Willis was given the Damon Knight Grand Master Award. And! ...

One of the panelists at ApolloCon, and at least two audience members chimed in with, “Well, the only reason you’re in the humanities is because you’ve been discouraged from being in STEM.” This is not the first place in geek culture I have seen a strong preference for STEM over the humanities.

I was nine years old when my frenemy Claudia (precociously elegant with her hair in a glossy pageboy) read aloud to me: “Lessa woke, cold.” Dragonflight was my first contraband, and F’lar one of my first crushes.

Why do female geek objectify themselves or present themselves as sexy versions of the things geek men love? That’s what a recent Comic-Con panel, “Oh, You Sexy Geek!” asked, but maybe it isn’t the right question at all.

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 ...

Cross posted at From Austin to A&M. I was at ApolloCon in Houston this year, and am really glad I went. I was on a couple of panels, met some really nice people, and got ...

May 13 in Boston: A project-driven introduction to Python for women and their friends (unfortunately now gone to “waiting list only” status). An open letter to the Australian SF community: However, the venue staging was ...