How to help fix the "American novelists" problem on Wikipedia
The “American novelists” category on Wikipedia is apparently theoretically supposed to be just a list of subcategories, but it currently... (More...)
The “American novelists” category on Wikipedia is apparently theoretically supposed to be just a list of subcategories, but it currently... (More...)
I've updated my Hugo fiction-author gender page with the new nominees. I'm surprised and pleased to see that, for the... (More...)
I've been meaning for a long time to write something coherent about some of the stuff I've been reading about... (More...)
I've encountered three new and interesting superhero comics featuring female protagonists in the past two months. I hope to post... (More...)
I think it's interesting that so much spam is phrased in terms of heterosexual men making themselves better lovers. A... (More...)
I get spam now and then from the IGN Games website. I think I tried to unsubscribe at some point... (More...)
New Yorker article: “A Woman’s Place: Can Sheryl Sandberg upend Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture?” Video-game event bans women under... (More...)
While we were buying stories to be published in 2010, I noticed an interesting small trend: several stories featuring female... (More...)
First, a bit of background for those who don't know it: There's a popular series of science fiction video games... (More...)
This year's list of Hugo nominees was released in April (congratulations to all nominees!), but I didn't look at it... (More...)
I've seen a surprising number of opinion pieces and quotes in the past few weeks* that refer to California's new... (More...)
Today was the twelfth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance in hundreds of cities all over the world. A couple dozen... (More...)
Sometime in the past couple weeks, Kam was moving some boxes around. She looked at the dolly that she was... (More...)
Some political and quasi-political items: Interesting discussion of tensions within the Tea Party as they settle in to become part... (More...)
I really wasn't paying attention this year when the Hugo nominees were announced, and so I was completely oblivious to... (More...)
I'd been told that NCIS was mildly entertaining, and every so often I figure I ought to take a look... (More...)
Every so often I get it into my head to watch some of the classic Westerns that I've never seen,... (More...)
I've been thinking for a long time about some stuff I want to write about trying to be a good... (More...)
I read through all of the awesome women proclaiming their awesomeness thread yesterday (having previously only looked at a couple... (More...)
Karen H posted a great entry recently in which she invited women to post about their awesomeness. She writes: Too... (More...)
A week ago in her blog, Cheryl posted an excellent brief Gender 101 entry, covering a variety of topics: biological... (More...)
Cool new group blog: the Geek Feminism Blog, featuring Liz H, Sumana H, and a bunch of other interesting writers.... (More...)
(This is another one of those entries that will probably make no sense to people not involved in the speculative-fiction... (More...)
I wasn't going to post any more tonight, but this is way too good not to share: The idea of... (More...)
Excellent open letter to Pixar from Linda Holmes, asking for a movie featuring a girl who is not a princess.... (More...)
When you're playing an abstract computer game against one or more computerized opponents (chess, say, or checkers, or Dicewar--any game... (More...)
Back in February, Kam and I watched the first two episodes of Dollhouse. I wrote up my thoughts about them,... (More...)
Just saw that today is Ada Lovelace Day, "an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in... (More...)
A long discussion of anonymity and pseudonymity. (More...)
Finally got around to watching Transamerica, which I've had out from Netflix for months. I kept thinking I might see... (More...)
Excellent news from last week: Today a federal judge ruled that the Library of Congress illegally discriminated against a Special... (More...)
Mary Anne is attending an interesting-sounding conference this weekend: Femme2008, a queer Femme conference run by the Femme Collective. It... (More...)
I'm still planning a post about author gender issues in general, but for now I just want to mention one... (More...)
A couple of weeks ago, I read a particularly long run of submissions with particularly unfortunate anti-woman aspects. All sorts... (More...)
Naomi just asked what my name would've been if I'd been born a girl. Not only did I know the... (More...)
tacityhydra just mentioned the Mo Movie Measure in passing; I was going to post this comment in response to that... (More...)
Not gonna write up Saturday or Sunday tonight; suffice it to say that I've mostly had a good time this... (More...)
I was thinking about various issues around transsexuality a few months back, and a question occurred to me. This is... (More...)
As has been widely noted, on this year's Hugo ballot there's only one work by a woman among the twenty... (More...)
One of the high points of WorldCon for me was getting to chat more than I usually do with Sheila... (More...)
We at Strange Horizons have just about filled up our publishing schedule for 2006, and have started on 2007. Interestingly, even though still only about 33% to 40% of our submissions are by women, in 2006 two-thirds of the stories we're publishing are by women. (More...)
It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. So here's a... (More...)
Overheard while standing in line for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, a bit of dialogue between a young... (More...)
At WisCon, as I mentioned a few days ago, I was on a panel titled "Pushing the Envelope," about how... (More...)
I'm on a panel tomorrow early afternoon called "Pushing the Envelope," about how to get more cutting-edge/groundbreaking stuff about sexuality,... (More...)
For over three months now, I've been meaning to post a note about Liz Henry's excellent SH review of Touched... (More...)
Shira Tarrant is editing an anthology of essays titled Men Speak Out: ProFeminist Views on Gender, Sex and Power; below... (More...)
Back around the end of March, I bought Willie Nelson's recording of the catchy gay cowboy song "Cowboys Are Frequently... (More...)
A couple of weeks ago, there was a totally fabulous talk at Google: Dr. Cornelia Brunner of the Center for... (More...)
I've developed what I think is a fairly accurate (but entirely useless to most of the world) algorithm for a computer to automatically guess the gender of an author who submits to SH... (More...)
I've posted a couple of times in the past year about Joey Comeau's short novel Lockpick Pornography--first when I first... (More...)
The other day, I finally got around to reading Cory Doctorow's story "Anda's Game," published in Salon about a year... (More...)
Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders are editing an anthology of essays titled She's Such a Geek; below is a copy... (More...)
Much of the following is not worksafe. In some cases, not even my description of it is worksafe. Interesting entry... (More...)
These items have no theme (well, okay, maybe "gender and genre"?); just wanting to close some browser windows. I think... (More...)
Geoff's Gender Guesser attempts to determine whether a given name is more likely a male name or a female name,... (More...)
I was having dinner with a group of friends a couple months ago when I realized that, in a reversal... (More...)
A conversation with Karen M. the other night somehow came 'round to the Transcendentalists, which reminded me of one of... (More...)
Jean pointed to The Gender Genie, where you enter some text and it applies the Koppel-Argamon algorithm (or perhaps that... (More...)
Interesting item in Nature: "Computer program detects author gender." Claim is that "[the] simple scan of key words and syntax... (More...)