What would your name have been?
Naomi just asked what my name would've been if I'd been born a girl. Not only did I know the... (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...)