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Quick hit: Matching challenge to help WisCon Member Assistance Fund, ends...

I have been to WisCon, the world’s oldest feminist scifi convention, several times and I am going again this year (May 27-30, 2016, Madison, Wisconsin, USA). I love the smart, funny conversations, the...

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Kameron Hurley’s “The Geek Feminist Revolution” available today

Kameron Hurley is the author of the nonfiction collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, which contains the Hugo-Award winning essay “We Have Always Fought.” Her epic fantasy series, the Worldbreaker...

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Quick Hit: Toward a !!Con Aesthetic – new essay at The Recompiler

Over at The Recompiler, I have a new essay out: “Toward A !!Con Aesthetic”. I talk about (what I consider to be) the countercultural tech conference !!Con, which focuses on “the joy, excitement, and...

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Kickstarting a responsible communication stylebook as community infrastructure

I haven’t been writing very much on Geek Feminism in the last year – most of us haven’t. I’ve also slowed down on posting to my personal blog. And one reason is that when I think about writing anything...

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Nonbinary inclusion in “women’s spaces”

Two different feminists I know recently brought my attention to “On the Design of Women’s Spaces” by Kat Marchán, and I’m grateful to them and to Marchán. The essay provides a useful “hierarchy of...

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Remembering the Fourteen

Today we remember: Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student...

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Some posts from the last year on inclusion

A sort of topic-specific collection of links from about the last year, broadly talking about inclusion in communities, online and off, especially in geek(y) spaces. What kind of discourses and...

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GF-ish sessions at Penguicon this weekend

This weekend, April 28-30, people coming to Penguicon in Southfield, Michigan can catch a number of sessions of interest to Geek Feminism readers. Coraline Ada Ehmke is one of the Guests of Honor (her...

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Bringing the blog to a close

We’re bringing the Geek Feminism blog to a close. First, some logistics; then some reasons and reminiscences; then, some thanks. Logistics The site will still be up for at least several years, barring...

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Informal Geek Feminism get-togethers, May and June

Some Geek Feminism folks will be at the following conferences and conventions in the United States over the next several weeks, in case contributors and readers would like to have some informal...

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