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Meanwhile, in the land of blogdom… Tiger Beatdown’s Garland Grey reports from SXSW!... Read more »

The Games We Play: Playing with Anna Collier

I wanted to make sure that my voice wasn’t the only one droning at you during this series, so I bestowed some fangirl love upon some prominent pro-gamers in exchange... Read more »

Douchebag Decree: FalseFlesh

Have you ever thought about Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, naked? Well, he might be thinking about you naked, and FalseFlesh wants to help him with his dreams. If... Read more »

No Kidding: On Being Childfree and Really Liking Kids

Since I’ve pretty much always known I didn’t want to have kids, this has come up for me a lot over the years—specifically when talking to people who also like kids but don’t want to have their own. In my personal and professional life, I’ve met daycare staffers and school... Read more »

The Games We Play: Pwn Anonymous, with Love

You can’t see me! Ha! The Age of the Internet has brought many advances in the way that we play games. It usually breaks down into three... Read more »

Adventures in Feministory: Gertrude Stein

Looking back on a literary icon. Read more »

The Games We Play: With All Due Respect

If you are a service member on deployment or stationed overseas you may find yourself limited in the ways that you are able to spend your free time. You could spend... Read more »

No Kidding: What About The Men? Pt. 2

What do you make of the idea that men have an inherent right to fatherhood? Read more »

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Everyone have a good International Women’s Day/Feminist Coming Out Day? Check out these compelling links from this week, and feel free to share your stories below! Andrea Grimes... Read more »

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Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. Read more »

What I Learned About Gender and Power from Sailor Moon

My life began in 1995 — the year I turned eight and became a divorced kid.    Read more »

Eat, Pray, Spend: Priv-Lit and the New, Enlightened American Dream

Even as reports on joblessness, economic recovery, and home foreclosures suggest that no one is immune to risk during this recession, the popularity of women’s wellness media has persisted and, indeed, grown stronger.  Read more »

Black Girls Hunger for Heroes, Too: A Black Feminist Conversation on Fantasy Fiction for Teens

What happens when two great black women fiction writers get together to talk about race in young adult literature? That's exactly what happens... Read more »