This category is dedicated to posts about theoretical topics, and to personal insight.
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 think some people shy away from running games because it’s a lot of work. I’m not going to lie to you – it can be. You hold a whole universe in your head! You may even need to dedicate your whole focus to the session, which can mean no personal distractions (no cell...
Read more →A bunch of years ago I was given the best larp advice I have heard so far. Today I’ll pass it on. ”Involve other people. Involve them, involve them, involve them.” – Henrik Thurfjäll That’s it. The best larp advice I have to offer. The advice might not look like much, and I wasn’t very...
Read more →Guess what my least favorite part of my job is. Go on, guess. Nope. It is not being broke from time to time waiting between publisher checks and book sales. And no, it isn’t dealing with angry fans or angrier trolls. Hell, it isn’t even the occasionally hostile environment I’m treated to within the...
Read more →Convention season is fast approaching, and with the advent of convention season comes the return of the furor over the problem of convention harassment and how to deal with that. And because I read several blogs in other areas of geekdom besides gaming, this is a theme that I’m seeing repeat over… and over…...
Read more →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 →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 →I am tired of rape culture in the gaming world. I am tired of having men be the arbiters of who gets to be a “real” gamer. I am tired of sometimes remaining silent because I don’t want to be dismissed as “that feminist who only talks about rape culture”. I am tired of...
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 →I have to admit, I love the future I live in. I own a tablet and a smart phone and they’ve become two indispensable tools to me as a gamer in general, and as a woman gamer in specific. I’ve seen a number of conversations where people talk about banning tech at the table, and I...
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