The Governess Did It!: Women Writing Mysteries

I “discovered” Sue Grafton a couple months ago when I started listening to audiobooks in my car. I inherited a love of mystery novels from my grandma and recognized Grafton’s books from my grandma’s bookshelves long ago. After zipping through two novels, I was 100% in love with Kinsey Millhone and started to wonder about… Read More

Maybe She’s Born With it, Maybe it’s Mary Kay

This past weekend, I was privy to the experience that is a Mary Kay event. I came away with some weird, confused, but positive feelings. I’m still asking, why did I go? Here’s how it all started… My fiance and I are planning for our wedding, but it’s not for another year and half. However,… Read More

The Well Written Female Characters of Gotham

If you haven’t watched Fox TV’s Gotham yet stop reading this post and read my spoiler-free introduction -unless you are one of those people who likes to know what will happen at the end of a series before you even start watching it. ***SPOILERS AHEAD*** As with many things, Gotham has its fans and its haters. Most of… Read More

Daredevil and Disability Politics

This guest post is by Elsa S. Henry of Blind Lady Versus. Daredevil is a superhero with super powers. Well, in the series he’s a vigilante with superpowers. But nonetheless, those superpowers do not make him less blind. He is still a man without sight, and because of that the way he operates in the world should… Read More

100 Days Of Being Geek Chic & Healthy: Challenge Accepted

I discovered this delightful project in the Female Geek Bloggers G+ Community a few weeks ago, and I encourage any other bloggers out there to participate. Ariel, founder of the blog Nerdy Birdie, launched “100 Days of Being Geek Chic & Healthy” to prompt positive discourse in the online geekosystem. According to her site: I… Read More