Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Feminist Blog
This weekend I found myself engrossed in the open beta for Overwatch, the latest game from Blizzard that has been hyped non-stop across the Internet since its unveiling at BlizzCon 2014. Overwatch is being sold vaguely as a “multiplayer first-person shooter,” but the game’s emphasis on team objectives and cooperative play means it’s more like… Read More
I’m so excited to be back! I super missed you all! I’ve been wanting to do another Fangirling post for a while now, and I decided that I should write one about Angel Dynamite. If you don’t know who she is, (Where have you been?!) She is a DJ, martial artist, and all around bad… Read More
Interstellar (2014) is one of those films that doesn’t suggest in the trailers that it’s going to be as complicated as it is. I still don’t understand what happened or how it all worked, but that’s usually a given with Christopher Nolan films – I’ve watched Inception (2010) many times but still don’t really get that. In… Read More
I once read a quote about the shared history of women. The quote stated that women had no common history because we have always been split into men’s families, men’s countries, men’s religions, and so on. Whether you agree or not, women as a unit are frequently defined not by our inherent commonalities but by… Read More
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 58,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 21 sold-out performances for that many… Read More
Did you know that for every $1 a man donates in the arts, a woman donates $3? And yet, paid professional artists are NOT three times as likely to be women. ARTemis is going to make that change. Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with Melissa Heisler, co-founder of ARTemis, via a long and productive Skype session to learn… Read More
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