Pixar, girls, and awesome girl-movie titles
Excellent open letter to Pixar from Linda Holmes, asking for a movie featuring a girl who is not a princess....
Archive for Gender
Computer-player gender?
When you're playing an abstract computer game against one or more computerized opponents (chess, say, or checkers, or Dicewar--any game...
Dollhouse (spoilers for episodes 1 and 2)
Back in February, Kam and I watched the first two episodes of Dollhouse. I wrote up my thoughts about them,...
Ada Lovelace Day
Just saw that today is Ada Lovelace Day, "an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in...
In praise of anonymity
A long discussion of anonymity and pseudonymity.
Transamerica
Finally got around to watching Transamerica, which I've had out from Netflix for months. I kept thinking I might see...
Transgender veteran wins sex discrimination lawsuit
Excellent news from last week: Today a federal judge ruled that the Library of Congress illegally discriminated against a Special...
Femme2008 queer Femme conference this weekend in Chicago
Mary Anne is attending an interesting-sounding conference this weekend: Femme2008, a queer Femme conference run by the Femme Collective. It...
Author gender among Hugo nominees and winners
I'm still planning a post about author gender issues in general, but for now I just want to mention one...
More on female characters in fiction
A couple of weeks ago, I read a particularly long run of submissions with particularly unfortunate anti-woman aspects. All sorts...
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...
A few notes on women in fiction
tacityhydra just mentioned the Mo Movie Measure in passing; I was going to post this comment in response to that...