Posted in Geek Culture, Gender, tagged China, 腐女, fanart, fanfiction, fanworks, feminism, geek, geek culture, geek women, GitHub, harassment, nerd, open source, queer comics, Sailor Moon, STEM, tech, Vox Day on 2014/04/28| 3 Comments »
Interrupting our regularly scheduled Japan programming for the roughly biannual geek-centric gender reader. In this reader: women DO read comics; arresting fanfic writers in China; open-source feminism, and more.
Emerald City Comicon via Comic Book Resources
Posted in Geek Culture, Reblog, tagged female geeks, geek culture, geek dviersity, geeks, nerds, reblog, unicorn files, women geeks on 2014/02/05| Leave a Comment »
If you enjoyed the posts on Geek Girl Con, check out Terra Clarke Olsen’s new project:
Over the past few years, many people have written about females in the geek community, and how the group is often dismissed and overlooked. Although all this literature is important and valuable, we want to take it to the logical next step- to create an avenue that shows women are in the geek community. Lady geeks exist; we’re an important part of the geek community, and we’re not going to disappear.
The Unicorn Files aims to capture the diverse body of female geeks by photographing individual geek women, giving women in the community a chance to tell their story. The photos will represent them and what they love.
Hello lovely Have You Nerd readers! This post is a bit different. I am in search of volunteers for a new project I’m undertaking with a friend, and I need your help!
One of my dearest friends, Nate Watters, and I just launched a new project titled “The Unicorn Files: Debunking the Myth of Lady Geeks.” Our goal is to show that female geeks exist, and are a wide and diverse group.
Over the past few years, many people have written about females in the geek community, and how the group is often dismissed and overlooked. Although all this literature is important and valuable, we want to take it to the logical next step- to create an avenue that shows women are in the geek community. Lady geeks exist; we’re an important part of the geek community, and we’re not going to disappear.
The Unicorn…
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Posted in Anime, Consumer Culture, Gender, Visual Culture, tagged comic books, fantasy, Game of Thrones, geek, geek culture, Gender, internet, LGBTQ, misandry, misogyny, queer, rape culture, sexism, straw feminist, television, trolls, TV Tropes on 2012/08/14| 12 Comments »
I apologize for the lack of a July gender reader. I always end up gathering links right as a topic explodes in the media, and my own fandoms have gone a bit mad lately, which resulted in a Sherlock marathon in between the Olympics, traveling, and trying to sort out my thoughts about Elisabeth. Lately I’ve been collecting links on two subjects: geek culture and bodies. Some of these are old news, but I hope that by gathering them in one place, I can show trends in subsections of this subject.
Warning: articles contain spoilers for some series; discussions of sexism, rape.
