I’ve been married for just over 20 years, and a parent for nearly 17. I’ve been a gamer the whole time. There are plenty of adjustments that had to happen for both those sentences to be true! We were the first people in our social circle to get married, and three years later the...
Read more →Filamena: So a thing happened on the intertubes a few days ago, and I guess it’s important I talk about it here. The short version is, someone asked ‘why are there so few lady developers?’ I answered him. Actually, and I want this to be very very clear, a LOT of women answered him. The...
Read more →Joanna: Recently on G+, I saw some comments on a post that struck me. Women were saying how they feel unwelcome at gaming conventions. That was a surprising word to see, unwelcome, and something I want to explore. Instead of derailing that particular thread, I thought I’d start a separate discussion. I have never felt...
Read more →Welcome to latest installment of 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. In today’s letter, a reader asks for advice on playing women: Dear Gaming as Women, They say a sensible starting point when playing in a...
Read more →I have been creating ritual for groups from two to 20+ for about 25 years. For 12 years I was a professional facilitator and ritual designer for MotherWoman, a local non-profit specifically designed to help women (and increasingly men) access and process the full range of emotions that arise in parenting, especially those that...
Read more →Welcome to the fourth installment of 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. In today’s letter, a reader who hasn’t GMed in a long time asks how to do so in a group with women, including new...
Read more →A funny / sweet thing happened to me recently. I was at InterNosCon, a gaming convention in Italy, and meeting lots of new people. I love meeting lots of new people! A man I’d never met before came up to me and said “You are Meguey Baker, right?” Yes, yes I am. “And is...
Read more →One of the first things I do in the sex ed classes that I teach is to talk about how we talk about sex. For most people, in most places, talking about sex is difficult, or at least unusual. So we talk about language first. There are four main languages of sexuality, and a...
Read more →I want to tell you about a time. Years ago, I was part of a circle of friends. A flexible web of interconnected circles, really. Some of us were more closely connected than others, but when there was a party at Juli and Brian’s house, everyone showed up. At parties like this, of course...
Read more →One thing we’ve learned over the years is that hungry gamers are grumpy gamers. We’ve also learned that a good food experience makes for a better night than an utterly forgettable one. Food for Thought is a series where we talk about food at the table. The Economies of Food You just had a...
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