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My sister is really into 5Ks right now. She walks a lot, and I mean a lot, every day and one of her co-workers said, “You know, if you walked 5Ks, not only would you be getting exercise, but they give. you bling.” So my sister has done a whole lot of these including a… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #383 – Did you guys know there are Nerdy 5Ks?
This should have gone live yesterday, but holiday… The other night, my therapist made me fight my way down to why I want to grow GGR, and why harassment won’t stop me. Fandom/Geekdom is home. When I walked into a Dreamcon in the fall of 1989, for the first time in my life I walked… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #382 – This is My Home
Ugh. So, that Kotaku article about D&D. Did anyone else cackle like Witch Hazel from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons when you read the last paragraph, which seems to state that because D&D had a female POC pictured in it, sexism in gaming is dead? Follower Saffire Rainbo brought this to my attention, and came… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #381 – Sexism isn’t Dead, it just Dresses Better
So, this weekend in Seattle it hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit. I don’t know if you know anything about Seattle, but we are giant weenies about extremes of weather on either end of the spectrum. It’s temperate here most of the time, just like we like it. However, for a few weeks out of the year,… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #380 – Hot Weather Geek Survival Guide
I was born in 1971. I’ll let you all do the math there and tell me how fucking old I am. I grew up with Princess Leia and Wonder Woman, as pretty much my only options for female heroes. For awhile, we also had Isis, from the Isis and Shazaam hour. Fantastic Four had Sue… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #379 – Why Wonder Woman is a Big Deal
Ok. I was wrong. Utterly, completely and wonderfully wrong. Gal Gadot was absolutely wonderful as Wonder Woman. See, I can admit when I was wrong. I finally got to see Wonder Woman today, and it was everything I have been looking for in a female led superhero film since I was five. My tattooed, pierced,… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #378 – Review: Wonder Woman
So, seeing as Vanity Fair is releasing the photos of Space Mom’s last photo shoot today, I thought I’d pick up one of her pet causes and run with it. Mental Illness. I know for a lot of you that brings up thoughts of Victorian asylums, or for some of us, the spate of unjustified… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #372 – Geek Media and Mental Illness
I may have used a similar title before, but this is something I really want to talk about again. So, I read a lot of YA fiction right now. Do you want to know why? Because when I was that age, stories with female protagonists were few and far between. Once I found one, I… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #368 – Representation Matters
Ok, so my exception to my refusal to see movies opening weekend is my birthday weekend, because Marvel nearly always releases on my birthday, and I have awesome friends. We saw Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 last night and it was AMAZING!!!! Seriously, I had read some mixed reviews of it, and… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #367 – Review: Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2
This was a panel that we did at Norwescon this year. Now, the idea behind the panel was that we would talk about whether we were the kind of collectors who very carefully preserved their things in acid free liners and kept all of our action figures “mint in box,” or if we were the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #366 – Collecting versus COLLECTING
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