Sneaky Storifying
[The following post brought to you by one of our fabulous Supernatural Roundtable discussionaires, Kelly McLaughlin!] “If you put it in fiction, and then people internalize it, that’s the only way....
View ArticleInternalize Equality by Broadening Fantasies
One of the most common arguments I hear against increasing diversity in speculative entertainment is that fans don’t want to experience stories that resemble the real world–they want to escape it....
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: When Buffy Reigned
Once upon a time, in a land about three thousand miles away, a little girl turned on her television and saw Kristy Swanson save her high school, slay some vampires, and win Luke Perry’s heart. That...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: ElfQuest
And so it began…Image belongs to the Pinis Scattered across the primitive World of Two Moons, a race of telepathic elves struggle to survive and coexist. When the Wolfriders–a tribe of hunter-gatherer...
View ArticleA Creeping Problem
Welcome to December 2013. There’s not much to note about this month, I suppose. The sun is shining, the weather’s acting like weather, and I might murder any radio that plays “Last Christmas I Gave You...
View ArticleA Letter to Santa
Dear Santa This Christmas, what I’d like for Christmas is equality. I’d like some cultural icons that I and my daughter can look up to. I’d like a world where she can grow up safe, strong and not...
View ArticleSuperGirls: Beyond Disney
Inevitably, having a six year old girl, a lot of my thoughts around women and geekery concentrate on the impact of books, films and other media on girls. I think about how to keep my girl’s options...
View ArticleHow I Found My Feminism
When hearing about the horror that was the Santa Barbara shootings, and the outpouring of grief, fear, fury and, sadly, the disgusting diatribe, that it prompted, I chose to share a little bit of my...
View ArticleIn Which Women Are People, and Something Something Gaming
Throughout the last couple weeks, I’ve been silent on the whole GamerGate thing while at the same time feeling obligated to comment on it here, because hey, geek site run by geek women, many of us...
View Article#HeforShe and Standing Up as a Feminist
Emma Watson announcing the #HeforShe gender equality campaign When Emma Watson got up in front of the UN council to announce the start of the #HeforShe campaign, her voice might have been a bit shaky,...
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