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GamerGate Rolls On — Does It Affect Your Personal Behaviour?

October 9, 2014

How it all started: Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian released her latest installment of Tropes vs Women in Video Games and was promptly deluged with threats of rape and violence. She had to leave her home and contact with the police. Zoe Quinn, developer of the game Depression Quest, had ...

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Roundtable: Growing Up Pop Culture

September 25, 2014

Recently, Janet Mock, a writer, cultural commentator, and transwoman, opened up on her blog about claiming a feminist identity. What sparked Mock’s recent claim to and stake in feminism was Beyonce’s 16-minute performance at the 2014 MTV VMAs where Beyonce boldly proclaimed herself a feminist ...

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It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Apocalypse Fiction — WWAC Roundtable

August 22, 2014

This week the women of WWAC talked apocalypse fiction. What’s it all about? Why are we so fascinated by it? Megan P, Annie, Wendy, Claire, Jamie, Brenda, and Laura all chimed in. Content Note: Frank discussion of trauma, violence, disaster and apocalypse prepping, end times ...

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Roundtable: Book Fans, Show Fans, Race, and Rape in Game of Thrones

August 13, 2014

In one of our sprawling internal email debates, it came out that WWAC staffers represent a good cross section of Game of Thrones viewers and that feelings were had by many. We decided to bring that conversation into the light for you all here — some of us are passionate book fans, some of ...

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WWAC Roundtable: A Post-SDCC14 Rundown

August 6, 2014

If you were not at San Diego Comic Con this year, congratulations! You and countless others watched from afar, bitterly whispering to yourself “one day I’ll go”as you scrolled through the endless stream of announcements pinging your phone. You may also be saner for having stayed home, with more ...

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What Is Geek Culture? Redux

July 30, 2014

Geek culture is a term that gets thrown around a lot. But what does it meeean? Interestingly, “what is geek culture?” is usually one of our top incoming searches. And, hey! My 2013 post What Is Geek Culture is still being read, and read a lot, so I thought I’d supplement it ...

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First Impressions! Sailor Moon: We Shriek A Bit

July 10, 2014

Kayleigh: MOON PRIDE, MOTHERFUCKERS. I’m so excited that Sailor Moon Crystal is finally here. Growing up, I was a huge fan of the original anime–those were the days when you had to wake up at 6:00 am every morning before school to tape it–and like a lot of 90s kids, Sailor Moon was ...

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Nerd Wedding Roundtable

March 4, 2014

The decline of marriage has been a hot topic in media lately, but one area of matrimony that is on the rise: nerd weddings. As more folks marry for love and mutual interests (historically, reasons lower on the list of marriage requirements), new traditions are being forged along the way.

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Buffy, Buffy Comics, adaptations & portraiture: roundtable!

March 3, 2014

We get previews and alerts and review pdfs in our inboxes, and we don’t go full-interest on every one. (This is behind the scenes stuff, hold tight.) We don’t discuss everything, either, not by a long way; usually we each take a hold of what looks interesting to us, and ...

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Hits=Dollars: The changing ethics of online journalism

February 13, 2014

We just did a roundtable based on The Sunday Times’ cherry-picked JKR quote, which was packaged to create Harry Potter controversy. I’m sure it generated a lot of ad revenue for them. And then there’s xoJane running IHTM: My White Yoga Privilege, and its followup. It looked ...

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GamerGate Rolls On — Does It Affect Your Personal Behaviour?

Roundtable: Growing Up Pop Culture

It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Apocalypse Fiction — WWAC Roundtable

Roundtable: Book Fans, Show Fans, Race, and Rape in Game of Thrones

WWAC Roundtable: A Post-SDCC14 Rundown

What Is Geek Culture? Redux

First Impressions! Sailor Moon: We Shriek A Bit

Nerd Wedding Roundtable

Buffy, Buffy Comics, adaptations & portraiture: roundtable!

Hits=Dollars: The changing ethics of online journalism

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