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Revenge of the Feminerd: Feminerd Miis
In this post I’ve taken some of the suggestions you gave me in the comments of my first post at Bitch of your feminerd role models, and I’m going to help you figure out how to turn them into Miis for...
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Revenge of the Feminerd: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
Everything has its season: ET had to go home, Sisko had to go be with the Prophets, Yoda had to become one with the force, Professer Xavier and Magneto had to go their separate ways, and so too this...
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How Steampunk Screws With Victorian Gender Norms
Two bearded ladies take a stroll at a Louisiana steampunk festival. Photo credit: infrogmation, via Creative Commons.During the quarter century since novelist K.W. Jeter playfully invented the term...
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"Orphan Black" is the Sci-Fi Thriller I've Been Waiting For.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if the most popular sci-fi on television didn’t involve a ton of misogyny? And had real, complex female characters? I’m looking at you, The Walking Dead. You dropped the ball so...
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'Tis the Season of Macho Summer Blockbusters, With No Superheroines in Sight
Where will you not see much of Rogue this summer? In the new X-Men movie, sadly. Every time I type “superheroine” into Microsoft Word, it’s underlined with a red squiggle to tell me that there’s no...
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"X-Men: Days of Future Past" Rewrites the Comic's Original Storyline to be...
The X-Men series proves to be a franchise that, like its most iconic protagonist, regenerates. On the face of it, X-Men: Days of Future Past is one of the more enjoyable superhero movies of the last...
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How "The Big Bang Theory" Represents Women in Science
The Big Bang Theory is currently the most popular TV show on Thursday nights—and it's the only sitcom that tosses Schrödinger’s Cat into casual conversation. During its seven seasons, the show has...
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Nerds Unite at Seattle's Geek Girl Con: Photos.
Geek Girl Con took over downtown Seattle’s convention center this weekend for its fourth annual celebration of the creativity and cultural contributions of nerdy women everywhere. Hundreds of people...
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Not All Nerds
It’s a strange time to be a nerd. Recent conversations—ranging from responses to the UC Santa Barbara shooting earlier this year and recent reexaminations of such key texts as 1984’s Revenge of the...
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Meet the Awesome League of Female Magic: The Gathering Players
Tifa Robles at the gaming tables where she and others teach women how to play Magic: The Gathering.This past week at Geek Girl Con in Seattle, I met other women who had seen every episode of The...
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