Results for: representation
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DC Announces Wonder Woman Movie & Possible Female Director; Marvel Announces Five Female-Led Comics
We’ve got a Wonder Woman movie with a woman director! We’ve got not one, but two POC superhero movies! We’ve got Spider-Gwen, Gamora and Mockingbird! We’ve even got Squirrel Girl!
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Emojli Is Here, Probably We Should All Download It
I received a text from my fiancée with just the word “EMOJLI.” The caps were hers, not mine. But they do reflect how I felt. Maybe the caps are also mine, then. Maybe they are also everyone’s.
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Webcomic “Becoming Me” Shows What it’s Like to be a Young Trans Woman Around Town
“Becoming Me” is a wonderful new webcomic featuring the adventures of a young Chilean trans woman named Mia. If you’re looking for more trans fiction in your life, this is a great place to find it.
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Where Are the Superheroines of STEM on the Silver Screen? A Wishlist of Amazing Women
Despite Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking getting top billing and the prominent role and smarts of Joan Clarke (played by Kiera Knightly), these STEM movies are dude heavy. As are STEM fields.
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Taking a Look At the Eisner Winners and Wonder Woman’s New Movie Costume!
The 2014 Eisner Awards were announced at Comic-Con! Let’s take a look at the winners. Also, let’s check out that new Wonder Woman movie costume!
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Women In STEM On Women In STEM
It’s going to take a lot of creative solutions to get us where we need to be.
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Without a Safety Net: Talking Women-Owned Tech Startups with Section II’s Allie Esslinger
“Start-up culture is odd. There’s a lot that I struggle with — it’s not something particularly designed for anyone who isn’t already privileged. It’s hard to go into it without a safety net. There’s a certain element of romanticizing struggle that is hard to internalize as a woman, a queer woman, and/or a woman of color. “
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Bout of Nostalgia: Chrono Trigger Makes Us All Heroes
“Male, female, what’s the difference? Power is beautiful and I have the power.”
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Drawn to Comics: Lumberjanes #4 has Hipster Yetis, Friendship High-Fives and Archery
The Lumberjanes are back! This time they have to deal with mysterious forest apes, campers from the near-by boy’s camp and a whole lot more. We also exclusively have the complete, official playlist from this issue!
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Check Out the First Three Issues of Ms. Marvel Right Now!
If you only read one mainstream comic starring a young Muslim Woman of Color, make sure it’s “Ms. Marvel!”
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Drawn to Comics: Celebrating the Eisner-Nominated Women of 2014
The nominees for the Eisner Awards were recently announced, recognizing the best in the comic book industry. Here are all the women who were nominated.
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Literally Queer Your Tech With The Lesbians Who Tech Summit
This is the first ever summit for queer women in tech. It’s from February 27th-March 2nd in San Francisco. And! There’s a discount code for Autostraddle readers.
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Queered Science: Jeremy Yoder, Allison Mattheis and Surveying Queers in STEM
Jeremy Yoder and Allison Matthies gathered data in a nationwide survey of sexual diversity in science, technology, engineering and math professions called Queer in Stem and answered some questions about their results.
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Star Trek N00b, Episode 2: The Man Trap (Oh My!)
“Okay, I had a fangirl moment once George Takei appeared on screen.”
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Queer Your Tech: Why I’m Addicted to Fallen London!
Fallen London! is a text based game that centers around a protagonist (you) who winds up in Neath, which is basically London except one mile under the earth’s surface, in a world where death is semi-permanent, devils are accessible and corpses sometimes have tea with you.
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Queer Your Maps: Google Map Maker Launches In the UK, Maps Bletchley Park
I like the idea of user-generated cartography because it’s giving us, the people on the ground, a greater hand in the accurate representation of our environment.