I’ve been reflecting on my time as a writer and a member of Gaming as Women community over the last year, and I have to say that one of the greatest joys of my time at this site is my discovery of the female voice. I hadn’t even thought that such a thing existed,...
Read more →Recently, on Google+, a friend posted a collection of Sage Advice columns from old issues of Dragon. Of particular note were the questions about what to do if a character were to become pregnant. The answers could be summed up as this: a pregnant person cannot realistically be an adventurer, and the best course of action...
Read more →An investigator opens a dusty tome with an ominous occult symbol on it; the writings therein could give her unfathomable power, or they could drive her utterly insane… The evil wizard from Pandemonium casts insanity on the party’s fighter. The fighter’s player fails her Will save. She grumbles and rolls the dice each round...
Read more →The Backup Ribbon Project is a new initiative to help make conventions a safer place for women and other victims of con harassment: If you take a Backup ribbon or you wear a Backup t-shirt, you are promising one very simple thing: You WILL be That Person to help out anybody being harassed. Gender,...
Read more →The always-awesome Hark! A Vagrant posted a strip about straw feminists this week. You don’t want to miss this week’s blog post, either. – Dymphna Lili Loofbourow of The Hairpin posted some excerpt’s from Are Women People?, a collection of satirical feminist and pro-suffrage poems written by Alice Duer Miller: Chivalry: It’s treating a...
Read more →Illustration Art wrote a scathing commentary on the art at Comic Con: Once again, this year’s ComicCon brought together the world’s most diverse array of pictures of large breasted barbarian women wearing skimpy chain mail halter tops and brandishing broad swords. The post is hilarious (and sad), and I would encourage anyone...
Read more →Lizzie Stark asks a panel of freeform GMs about the role of debriefing in freeform games. It’s worth a read if you play or run emotionally charged games of any kind, freeform or no. – Dymphna Rebecca Veverka of Word of the Nerd writes an excellent data-driven post that debunks the top six myths...
Read more →Welcome to the second installment of our new feature: Dear Gaming As Women! We invite our readers to asks us anything – and we’ll do our best to offer informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining answers. Without further ado, here’s today’s letter: Dear Gaming As Women, Does being a feminist ever get easier? Right now it...
Read more →In the USA, it was a good week for gay pride. The Pentagon held a gay pride event that honored LBGT servicemen for the first time. In other important pride news: unless you’ve been living under a rock that doesn’t have a good wifi signal, you’ve probably heard about Oreo’s gay pride post on...
Read more →A common liberal view of religion (popularized by esteemed religious scholar Huston Smith, a Unitarian Universalist and author of the classic comparative religion textbook The World’s Religions) is this: All religions are fundamentally the same. They are different paths that lead up the same mountain, to use Smith’s metaphor. This viewpoint has been espoused by...
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