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Queer Your Tech With Fun: Mac Trackpad Shortcuts For the Win

Basically, trackpad shortcuts aren’t just super duper time savers when you’re using a Mac. They’re also an opportunity for me to talk about one-finger, two-finger, three-finger and four-finger gestures with an audience who will get the joke.

Lana Turing November 17, 2012 18 Comments
Geekery

Queer Your Tech with Fun: Make a F***ing To-Do List

You need a to-do list. Yes. You do.

Lana Turing November 10, 2012 20 Comments
Geekery

Queer Your Tech with Fun: Word Processors That Aren’t Made by Microsoft

Let’s transgress the Microsoft system. Say it with me now: there are more options than Microsoft Word.

Lana Turing November 3, 2012 55 Comments
Geekery

Queer Your Tech With Fun: Smart Phones, Pen Pals and Liquor

This week in the world of tech, we’re going to talk about two of our favorite things: apps for your awesome Autostraddle Air Mail Pen Pals, and apps for liquor.

Lana Turing October 29, 2012 11 Comments
Geekery

You Can Use Technology to Navigate the Anti-Gay Hate

I just want to read my daily news with someone that’s as flabbergasted as I am.

Kristen October 17, 2012 25 Comments
Geekery

WoWzer: Have We Got A Guild For You

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled pandas, and we will give you . . . a World of Warcraft Autoguild: Horde edition.

Tami September 27, 2012 43 Comments
Geekery

Your Gay Guide to iOS 6: Passbook, Panorama and VIP Inbox, Oh My!

Because like half of these new features will be useful for the next A-Camp.

taylor September 20, 2012 30 Comments
Geekery

Geek Things You Should Know About

Gettin’ geeky with it.

Ryan Yates September 13, 2012 28 Comments
Geekery

Sleep Cycle Makes Rising and Shining A Feasible Possibility

Laura’s Team Pick: The sun is up, the sky is blue, it’s beautiful and so are you.

Laura September 12, 2012 30 Comments
Geekery

What If? Takes Thought Experiments To The Next Level

Laura’s Team Pick: What if xkcd got just a little nerdier?

Laura September 10, 2012 14 Comments
Geekery

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 September 10, 2012 87 Comments
Geekery

Video Game Roundup: Five New iPhone And iPad Games For Your Gaming Pleasure

I love being able to play games while waiting on line at the DMV.

Whitney Pow September 8, 2012 17 Comments
Geekery

Reach Othrs on Your Phone: Why I Have a Screen of Gay Lady Dating Apps

Mobile dating apps are blowing up for gay men and straight people, but what is on the market for queer ladies?

Kristen August 27, 2012 43 Comments
Geekery

Anna Anthropy: Queering Video Games One Pixel at a Time

“Anthropy proves to us that video games can tell our stories as queer and trans* women. They can vent our frustrations in ways other people can experience. They can help us to communicate the things we go through in an unprecedented, interactive way.”

Whitney Pow August 25, 2012 27 Comments
Geekery

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.

Rose August 17, 2012 37 Comments
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Where the F*ck Should I Go To Eat? and Other Combinations of Food and Cursing

Ali’s Team Pick: Do you like food? Do you like cursing? So do I! And so does this web designer, and he’s telling you where to f*cking eat your f*cking dinner.

A.E. Osworth August 10, 2012 20 Comments
Geekery

Dr. Ben Barres Knows That Misogyny in the Sciences Is Real

The problem is that not everyone knows women aren’t biologically limited to washing dishes. Dr. Ben Barres studies brains, is trans, and shares his unique perspective on this un-news.

A.E. Osworth August 7, 2012 44 Comments
Geekery

Rooster Teeth Expo Hosts Panel of Lady Weirdos from YouTube

“I want girls to be awkward and funny and weird and think about being a girl in a different way than shopping and putting on makeup.” -Grace Helbig

Brittani July 27, 2012 8 Comments
Geekery

All The Small Things: Comic-Con Dug Into Some Progressive Politics, Other Cool Shit

At the San Diego ComicCon’s smaller events, your free swag is knowledge.

Ash July 23, 2012 19 Comments
Geekery

Maker Camp: Sounds Awesome, Bestows Relevancy To Google+

Hey campers! We just found a way to fill your time until A-Camp rolls around.

Vanessa July 17, 2012 12 Comments
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