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rape culture

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Hollaback! Philly Making Comic Book About Street Harassment

Rose’s Team Pick: Hollaback! is using comics to educate both men and women about how to respond to harassment. And you can help fund it!

Rose —

Mar 29, 2013

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queer your tech

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Queer Your Tech With Fun: Backing Up Your Ish, Part 1

Part one of backing it up: discussing what it is, why we need to do it, what the different kinds of back ups are, etc.

Lana Turing —

Dec 1, 2012

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science

food and drink

Harvard’s Science and Cooking Lecture Series Brings All The Girls To The Yard

Laura’s Team Pick: They can teach you, and there is no charge.

Laura —

Sep 19, 2012

gaming

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A Whole New World (of Warcraft)

Ladies and gentlebois, this is my coming out: I am a proud, gay, level 85 warlock. And I am here to recruit you.

Tami —

Sep 10, 2012

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team pick

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The Invention of the Book, and Also Douglas Adams

Carolyn’s Team Pick: Books, Douglas Adams, and killer animation? Yes please.

Ryan Yates —

Jun 1, 2012

Daily Fix

feminism

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My Little Pony: Lesbianism is Magic

The “brony” fandom is a lot more Sapphic than you’d think, at least as far as their fanfiction goes.

Rose —

May 30, 2012

Geekery

Lists/Top 10s

music

Thirteen 8-bit Chiptune Music Covers to Make Your Day Nerdier

Have you had your daily dose of video-game-music inspired covers of songs by Tegan and Sara and The Cure? Here you go.

Whitney Pow —

Mar 7, 2012

event

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On Booth Babes, CES, and Why This Female Tech Journo Thinks We Deserve A Better Apology

In which I respond to a BBC interview featuring yours truly on the matter of “booth babes” and call for a better apology from Gary Shapiro, all-around really influential technology…

taylor —

Jan 18, 2012

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team pick

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The EliptiGO: For People Not Cool Enough For Segways

In case it wasn’t initially clear: an ElliptiGO is a real working outdoor mobile elliptical bike.

Lizz —

Sep 2, 2011

Geekery

Nerd Culture

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Secret Hiding Places 101: Because None Of Us Are Really Over Harriet the Spy

Rachel’s Team Pick: Now no one can ever steal my candy!

Rachel —

Aug 22, 2011

Daily Fix

game review

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Minecraft Review: Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Again, Kind Of

Minecraft is all of your favorite things rolled into one affordable, compact package that gets hardlined right into your dopamine receptors and it stays there forever, I’m not joking.

taylor —

Nov 30, 2010

curated

gaming

geekery

Top 5 Gaming Podcasts To Light Your Fire, Stoke Your Escapist Inclinations

The lovely, talented and possibly ambidextrous guest contributor, Danielle, gives us the low-down on the best gaming podcasts so we can all go into tiny escapist cocoons and ride out…

guest —

Oct 2, 2010