Results for: meet up
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Taking Over the World One Controller at a Time: The Good News About Queer Games
Like playing video games? How about the queer, genderqueer and trans people who make them? Here’s how your queer worldview is carving out more real estate in the world of gaming.
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New Comic Series You’ll Love: Autostraddle’s Own Intern Grace Co-Creates “Lumberjanes”
Our very own Forever Intern Grace Ellis, along with Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters and Brooke Allen, have combined forces for the comic book “Lumberjanes,” about five girls at camp having fun and fighting monsters.
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Badass Lady Astronaut Candidates: Meet NASA’s Class of 2013
Selected from a pool of over 6,100 candidates, NASA picked some incredibly impressive individuals. In this totally biased writer’s opinion, the women especially are killing it.
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Supergirls Like Us: Batgirl’s Alysia Yeoh Is Trans
“It’s important not just to have characters that challenge ideas about gender and sex, but to also have them in realistic settings.”
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From Sailor Moon to Yaoi Fangirls: Gender and Sexuality at Otakon 2012
How is sexism perpetuated in anime and manga? What is the role of women in geek culture? Just some of the interesting topics covered by my visit to the East Coast’s largest anime convention.
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Gays No Longer Curable via iPhone!
Being gay is “one of many conditions that beset fallen humanity,” and Exodus International wants to help you!, through prayer and the Internet.
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Padmapper: Apartment Hunt Like A Pro #tipsandtricks
Meet Padmapper, an absolutely essential (free!) apartment hunting tool. Not apartment hunting right now? Bookmark this shit. It will change your life. You’ll never look at Craigslist (the same way) again.
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Google Introduces Ngram Viewer, Time Travel for Bookworms and Word Nerds
Boy does Google have a treat in store for you word nerds, bookworms and history buffs! Meet the Google Ngram Viewer, a way to search hundreds of years of the written word, or at least 4% of published books from 1500-2008. Not only that, but you can chart words and trends against each other instantly. Be right back, I’ve gotta play with this for 100+ hours.
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Microsoft’s Unsettling New Kin Ad a Pro-Kidnapping PSA?
The more I think about Microsoft’s newest Kin ad, the more sketched out I get: the video depicts a young woman, sponsored by Microsoft, heading out on a road trip to meet all of the sketchy weirdos she talks to online IN PERSON. And it’s fun, edgy and appealing, just like an Urban Outfitters catalog. So think about how creepy this vid is, then buy a bunch of great games that came out yesterday to feel better.
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Lesbian Batwoman Wins GLAAD, Felicia Day’s Interstellar Gayness
Gay Batwoman takes home a GLAAD award, Felicia day tells us her type (maybe?) and the new Tron and Prince of Persia trailers. Also, this viral Battlestar Galactica/Beastie Boys mash-up may be the best thing that’s ever happened to me.