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Notes From A Queer Engineer: My Top Five Beautiful Things in Science
At its core, science is a willingness to believe that the universe is knowable. That if we ask the right questions and follow the evidence, we can get to the bottom of how things are, and why.
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Evolution’s Rainbow: Joan RoughGarden Explores Queer Sex in Animals
Evolution’s Rainbow is both a catalogue of diversity across the natural world in sex, gender, and sexuality, and also an “indictment” of all academic fields for suppressing or ignoring the diversity that we see.
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Queered Science: NOGLSTP’s Rochelle Diamond Forged A Path For All of Us
If any of you have ever experienced homophobia in the workplace or queer-related adversity in your personal life and moved on (ahem, way too many of us), then you need to know Rochelle Diamond’s life story.
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“Yes, I Know What A Gigabyte Is”: Let’s Talk About Sexism In The Tech Industry
Following the “Titstare” fiasco at Disrupt, we’re having a greater conversation about sexism in the tech industry. And women who work in tech won’t be the only humans to benefit from the disruption of brogrammer culture.
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DC Hires an Openly Gay Writer for Batwoman to Appease Audiences
Its certainly been one hell of a week for DC’s PR team. (Emphasis on hell.)
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Drawn to Comics: Princess Princess Makes All Your Queer Fairy Tale Fantasies Come True
For a long, long time I’ve loved princess movies, but I always wished there were more princesses like me. Well, with Princess Princess, I’ve finally found some.
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Four Ways to Learn a New Language With Your Tech
So many ways to get your language learning on! Enjoy, queermos. Et bonne chance!
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Quist Brings Global LGBTQ History to Your Smartphone
Sarah Prager created Quist to make navigating our past a little bit easier.
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Magical Girls, Heroines and Anime Amazons: Field Notes from Otakon 2013
The East Coast’s largest anime convention had everything an anime fan could want, including some interesting conversations about representation of women in anime.
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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.
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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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Facebook Will Be Publicly Traded, and Some Think Users Deserve to Benefit
Technology theorists raise questions about who should be paying whom.
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Kate Leth Draws Comics, Knows What We Want: The Autostraddle Interview
Queer comic artist Kate Leth (of Kate or Die! fame) talks about drawing, women, drawing women, and why filthy comics are the most fun. Also, she made a sexy drawing just for you!
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Batwoman #4: Smart, Feminist and Very Very Lesbosexy
Batwoman #4 passes the Bechdel test! And it includes a ton of tastefully done lesbian sex! What is happening to mainstream comics, you guys?
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BlogHer 2011: Transcript From That Panel About How You’ve Driven Me Crazy
It’s statistically likely that you missed this amazing life-changing panel. We can help you with that.
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Google Instant Debuts, Instantly Excludes Lesbians
Ever try to search for lesbian-friendly content on Google and come up short? Us too, and the new Google Instant excludes lesbians altogether. Lesbians queer sex hot sexy lesbians sexy sex.
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My Top 8 Retro Nintendo Games for Android: Geekender Edition!
I’m still reeling, drunk on the freedom of Google’s Android OS. If you’re a gamer and you’ve got an Android device (or you’re considering one!), take heed of these 8 reasons to ditch the iPhone. Snesoid and Nesoid on the Android Market open up a whole world of retro-gaming, a world which I thoroughly explored this weekend for, er, research purposes. And because the Geekender is ostensibly for things I do on the weekend.
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CES 2010 Highlights: Microsoft’s Wiimote, Laptops Get Zanier and 3D Everything
CES offered some new tech for every kind of technophile! New phones, new screens, new ways to game and more! In other news, gaming is good for you (duh) and thank god we finally understand why the fruit fly has such a spiny sex organ!
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Three Perspectives on Avatar (One for Each Dimension!)
Everybody has some feelings about James Cameron’s Avatar. From total 3D motion-sickness revulsion to fanboyish obsession, everyone’s got something to say. Here, three of our very own tech team members give you the scoop on the 3D box-office hit from where they’re standing.
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Google Wave Review & How To or “Team Auto Gets Into Wave, Panics and Breaks It”
Team Autostraddle almost makes Google Wave explode. Everyone feels very skeptical and expresses their feelings while we attempt to show you how to use Google Wave.