If you’re a fan of tabletop RPGs, then go check out Haiku Warrior. Created by Jason Anarchy, the guy behind Drinking Quest, this tabletop is told through Japanese haikus and is designed for up to four players. Even if you aren’t confident in your RPG skills just yet, the creators claim that this game is…
Kickstarter of the Week: Embroidered Equines
Sometimes you need a project to back where you feel like you’re making a direct impact. Sometimes all you need is pony plushes. Today you can have both! Read on for our Kickstarter pick of the week. In her Kickstarter campaign, Embroidered Equines, 20% Cooler Pony Plushes, full-time crafter Stephanie P. Widmer, has a simple…
Kickstarter of the Week: Fight!
Feature image artwork by Baptiste Pagani and Kali Ciesemier. This week I’d like to share a Kickstarter I’ve been looking forward to for a while now: Fight! The Fight Zine is a project started by Jenn Woodall and brings together 36 artists for 44 full-color pages of incredible, video-game inspired art. Contributing illustrators include Sam…
Kickstarter of the Week: Love in All Forms
All-ages queer content is important. Unfortunately, the queer community as a whole is severely underrepresented in the media, and queer kids and young adults are practically nonexistent. While it’s certainly a problem when adults don’t see themselves accurately represented in film, TV, and literature, this same deficiency can cause lasting damage to one’s sexual health…
Kickstarter of the Week: Acrobatica Infiniti Circus
Have you ever dreamed of running away and joining the circus? This might be the Kickstarter for you! Acrobatica Infiniti Circus combines acrobatic performers with geek characters to create America’s first traveling “Nerd Circus,” promoting “real humans with unreal skills making fiction a reality.” Created by Tano Karo, the Acrobatica Infiniti Circus (AI Circus) was conceived on…
Kickstarter of the Week: The Riveter
The Riveter is an online publication that aims to provide higher quality long form media for women. Started in 2013 by Kaylen Ralph and Joanna Demkiewicz, The Riveter started as a way to fill gaps in print media targeting women. These women, along with Natalie Cheng, who joined the team in 2014, noticed a disturbing…
Kickstarter of the Week: Studio Cosplay
Creating cosplay costumes can be a messy business. That’s why Studio Cosplay want to open a makerspace in the DC Metro area that’s focused on costuming. Created by cosplayers for cosplayers, the Studio Cosplay Kickstarter campaign, aims to create a “cosmakerspace” to help all costumers at all levels with designing and constructing costumes, fabricating armor, and…
Kickstarter of the Week: Nerdy Words
Tired of searching for that perfect birthday card for your science friends and never finding quite the right one? Let Nerdy Words save you from insanity with science themed birthday cards. After a successful Kickstarter campaign for nerdy Valentines, scientist and hobbyist designer, Christine Snyder, is back with a line of nerdy birthday cards. The…
Crowdfunding of the Week: Dames Making Games
March is right around the corner and it brings the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in California. Putting my own jealousy for those attending aside, this week’s Crowdfunding of the Week is to help the twenty-five scholarship recipients of Dames Making Games travel to GDC to represent women in games and network with their industry colleagues….
Kickstarter of the Week: Geek Loves Punk
A lesbian geek and her best friends try to figure out their lives and their relationships in the sweet comedy, Geek Loves Punk. In the Geek Loves Punk Kickstarter, filmmaker Julie Kerr expands the Geek Loves Punk story from her original short film to a full length feature. The story focuses on Elizabeth, a lesbian…
Kickstarter of the Week: Jill Trent, Science Sleuth #1
In the mid-1940s, Jill Trent, Science Sleuth was a comic book heroine who caught criminals using her smarts and science. 65 years later, she’s in the public domain and modernized for today’s readers. Since 2012 D.M. Higgins has been editing the Super Dames blog highlighting women in comics throughout history with occasional commentary on gender issues in comics….
Kickstarter of the Week: The Hues by Alex Heberling
If you’re big into webcomics, the name Alex Heberling should be familiar to you. She’s been doing the fun autobiographical webcomic Alex’s Guide To A Life Well Lived since 2008, and it’s still going. She also was the mind behind the webcomic Garanos, which ran from 2006 to 2010, and is now completed. So this is…
