Geek Girl Talk, issues that matter to geek girls, misogyny in comics, the dearth of women in the tech industry and gaming industry, the personal is political
I, and a lot of other folks, particularly other female geeks, blog a lot about what’s wrong with geek culture, and the ways it hurts us. But it doesn’t just hurt us. For many of us, finding geek culture, banding with other nerds saved out lives in one form or another, which is why we… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #492 – How Being a Geek Saved my Life
Nature 2 Mickey 0 Sorry about missing the second post last week. My work situation has become untenable, and as a result, the Migraine Fairy is spending a lot of time at my house. Whee. I will try to get you guys some extra content this week, maybe an extra video when I’m not high… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #488 – Mickey -vs- Nature
Sadly work begins with a W and therefore did not fit in my alliteration scheme. So, once again it is time to be a pasty northerner when the temperature climbs above my favored 75 degrees Fahrenheit. When all around me are transplants from fairer climes chirping about how lovely this is, and isn’t it better… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #481 – Summer, Stress, and other Stupid Things.
I’ve started thinking of people’s clustered fandoms as their Geekscapes. Those things that shape their imagination, free them from the struggles of the mundane world, if only for the length of a comic book, movie or novel. Geekscapes are as many and varied as geeks. Anymore, I’d have to say my personal Geekscape currently houses… Read More Geek Girls Rule! # 473 – Geekscapes
This is for my cosplayers, and/or my girly-girls. So, I read this article about how this engineer listened to his wife and her friends complaining about tights and pantyhose, then really looked at them and realized that they weren’t well-designed at all, and that there was definitely room for improvement. Thus, Heist tights were born.… Read More Geek Girls Rule #468 – Review: Heist Tights
One of the problems I have doing this blog is that I often don’t realize that several of my interests are actually geeky. I mean, yes, comics, the MCU, gaming (video and roleplaying), being into SF/F, and a little bit being into Horror. But periodically I’m surprised when people tell me something else I like… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #460 – What Counts as Geeky?
So, I said I’d get to this. I was giving Green Ronin a chance to update their proposal, or at the very least take it down pending massive edits, but two and a half weeks later neither of those things has happened, so here goes. The Green Ronin S.T.O.P. Proposal for dealing with sexual harassment… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #457 – Green Ronin’s S.T.O.P Proposal: How NOT to Handle Sexual Harassment
I know, I’ve talked about being a sucker for marketed stuff from my fandoms before. From the Nightcrawler shrine, to the Captain America wall art collection, I pretty much am a target market. So when I got the email about Bésame Cosmetics’ Field Agent Lip Kit, I rationalized buying it with the idea of reviewing… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #456 – Review: Bésame Cosmetics – Field Agent Lip Kit
So, articles, blog posts, and advertisements are full of entreaties for us to do something called “Self Care.” Frequently this is paired with some object or service you must buy to engage in said “self care.” Now, yes, self care is very important. and it also does not necessarily require a spa day, a facemask,… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #437 – Geeky Self Care
I hope this is coherent, I’m pretty loaded on cold medicine, having had to cancel some game demos this weekend rather than infect the world with this horrible death plague. Ok, honestly, it’s really just a horrific head cold with some gastro-intestinal distress issues. Yeah, I’m pretty. A friend of mine introduced me to this… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #431 – Nostalgia’s Great and All…
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