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Women in modern games: WoW Cataclysm has some pretty cool women in it. Let’s...

We’ve filled a lot of linkspams with discussion of negative reviews of World of Warcraft from the feminist perspective. While I still think “I KILL THINGS WITH MY LADYBITS” may be the best description...

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Everyone gets a linkspam! (27th January, 2011)

Programming suggestions for WisCon, the feminist scifi convention, close tomorrow, Friday, 28 January. Anyone can submit an idea; just create a login. A recent IBM infomercial highlights the role of...

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Quick Hit: Dickwolves shirt removed from store

In our linkspam, you may have seen the post “Why I’m Not Speaking at PAX East 2011.” If you haven’t, here’s an excerpt: A couple of months ago, I got asked to be on a panel at PAX East 2011. I’d...

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BGG (Black Girl Gamer)–LFG, PST!

Cori Roberts is founder of Gameinatrix.com and remaining founding member of Gamer Girls Radio, and has been involved in gaming media for over 8 years. She’s currently obsessed with the MMO Fallen...

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Quick hit: Shepard ain’t white: Playing with race and gender in Mass Effect

I’m going to admit, I haven’t played Mass Effect 2, but I’ve definitely been hearing good things about playing the main character as a woman. There’s lots of good reasons your leading lady may be...

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Quick Hit: Sexism In Games Bingo

Tired of hearing the same arguments regarding sexism in games? Here’s a sexism in games bingo card by @fireholly99. Trigger Warning: Includes mention of violence against women. Additional Warning: This...

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Back to the linkspam (16 January 2013)

Harassment in nerd spaces, and encouraging honesty: “I hope this story encourages more people to talk seriously about experiences they’ve had at conventions, at gaming meet-ups, at comic book stores,...

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My Little Linkspam: URLs are magic (22 January 2013)

Gender in Twitter: Styles, stances, and social networks: “By clustering Twitter feeds, we find a range of styles and interests that reflects the multifaceted interaction between gender and language.”...

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I prefer the fanon linkspam (12 April 2013)

Gender Bias Found in How Scholars Review Scientific Studies: A scientist’s gender can have a big impact on how other researchers perceive his or her work, according to a new study. My Game Development...

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Syntax error: unexpected linkspam (16 April 2013)

Science needs more women: “The bottom line is that many excellent female researchers across Australia do not encounter a set of sequential career rungs to be climbed, but rather need to navigate a...

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The left hand of linkspam (19 April 2013)

Diversity Messes With Your Culture, And That’s a Good Thing: “Culture fit matters only insofar as it translates as “values fit.” If “culture fit” is code for “looks like us and talks like us,” it’s a...

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They Might Be Linkspam (23 April 2013)

Disney store introduces ‘Avengers’ T Shirts that tell boys to be heroes and girls to need a hero, and then removes the sexist shirts in response to #NotBuyingIt petition. Jane McGonigal, Designer of...

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Standard linkspam procedure (7 May 2013)

The 30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech: “We were truly blown away by the number of young, successful women in the tech industry. These women hold a variety of roles in the industry: founder,...

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The war on linkspam (28 June 2013)

Petition to Put Ada Lovelace on the £10 Note: “[O]ther than the Queen, there will be no women featuring on our English bank notes… We would like to propose Ada Lovelace – Founder of Scientific...

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When a link and a spam love each other very much (26 March 2014)

A couple of quick announcements to start us off: applications to attend AdaCamp Portland (June 21–22, ally skills track June 23) are open the call for submissions to another issue of Model View Culture...

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Linkspam considered harmful (7 May 2014)

Tech company management responds to incidents, round many of… many: Follow up to the investigation results | defunkt at GitHub (April 28): “Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent...

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Why We’re Not Talking About GamerGate

Content warning: stalking, harassment, threats, violence–GamerGate, basically. Geek Feminism’s lack of a statement about the GamerGate hate campaign has felt conspicuous to me. We’re a community...

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