With convention season nearly in full swing, how to include ladies in your geeky/nerdy/gaming events is a hot topic. From Cosplay harassment retaliation to Aisha Tyler laying the smackddown on haters for appearing at conventions last year, 2013 has the difficult task ahead of it to be more gender inclusive. How do we get...
Read more →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 →Media is a heavy inspiration for my gaming ideas. Any new movie, video, comic, or whatnot that comes out I analyze as potential seeds for plot, character, pacing, and drama. Zero Dark Thirty is paving the way for female heroes in its portrayal of an American hero who is also a woman. Spoilers and...
Read more →JR Blackwell is the sort of woman who returns good to evil. If she were to be stabbed in the side by a mugger, after she was done dismembering the mugger, she could be heard to say, ‘Huh. Well. I’m bleeding and I have a hole in my side. What sort of good could...
Read more →Kira: In the world of “what might have been”, we found out that there were women fighter pilots cut from Star Wars, Return of the Jedi. Do you have a Manic Pixie Dream Girl in your life? In response to a movement by a thirteen-year-old named McKenna Pope, Hasbro will be releasing a gender neutral...
Read more →This is a topic that frustrates me almost every time it comes up. You’re sitting at a game with your friends. You ask yourself why there aren’t enough women/minorities/gnomes at the table. Why it’s so hard to get some of your friends interested in the hobby. See, they like the same geeky media as...
Read more →This post talks about the potential impact flexible work hours could have on women. I couldn’t help but think how this could apply to women in game design too. – Kira “I believe there’s a misconception that if you put a girl or a woman on the cover, the game will sell less....
Read more →At Metatopia this year, I had an experience with a family that made my grinchy heart grow three sizes. A week before the convention, Hurricane Sandy blew through the NY/NJ metro area, leaving chaos, gas rationing and power outages in her wake. The hotel was unusually full of area residents – some staying at...
Read more →The perfect gift is hard to find for anyone, let alone someone so awesome as the gaming women in your life. If you have a gaming woman on your list, or you are a gaming woman and just want an awesome gift for yourself, check out our top ten gifts below (in no particular order...
Read more →I have been married for 6 years. For a 24 year old, that’s actually a while. Most of my friends near my age are just now, or within the past two years, getting married. It’s exciting and great – the change from single gamers to engaged to partnered (or satisfied relationships, whatever they might...
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