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The Unicorn Files Magazine, featuring many amazing geeky ladies, is now available to buy in print!
(We are selling it at cost, so be sure to get a copy and spread the geekiness!)
http://www.blurb.com/b/8064406-the-unicorn-files
The Unicorn Files magazine is now available to purchase!
We hope you enjoy getting to know geeky women from the Pacific Northwest and feel inspired to let your own geek flag fly! <3
p.s. Looking into options to provide the PDF for free online. So stay tuned for that as well...
We were fortunate enough to photograph kellysue for our geek girl project. If you want to see these images in print, as well as other photos of awesomely geeky ladies, then please consider donating to The Unicorn Files Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/730599694/the-unicorn-files-a-geek-girl-photo-book
The Unicorn Files: Debunking the Myth of the Female Geek is a photo and story book that highlights female geeks in the community.
Only a few days left to donate to make this geek girl book a reality!
Remember Tali, an awesome geeky lady we featured?
Well she just wrote a post on Uncanny Pop about The Unicorn Files Kickstarter on her blog. Check it out!
Photo via Kickstarter/The Unicorn Files Interested in geek girl culture? The Unicorn Files might be for you. In a Kickstarter launched today, Seattle-area
Geek Wire featured our Kickstarter! Have you donated yet? Please help bring this dream into a reality! :D
The Unicorn Files: Debunking the Myth of the Female Geek is a photo and story book that highlights female geeks in the community.
EXCITING NEWS! We have launched our Kickstarter today in hopes of raising the funds to self-publish a book. Please check it out, share, and donate what you can to help make this dream a reality!
Share Your Story!
Have a story you want to share? We want to hear from you! We’re looking for essays/personal stories/poems/etc. from fellow geeky ladies to incorporate into The Unicorn Files project. Interested? Email Terra (terra[at]haveyounerd[dot]com) for more information. Can’t wait to hear from you!
This is a personal piece I wrote for Seattle Weekly about sexism and misogyny in the geek community in relations to parenthood and raising a son. I have received a LOT of hate mail from the piece, but I stand by what I said.
I was fortunate enough to interview Jackson Katz, Jennifer Stuller, and a few amazing parents for this piece. They provided great words of wisdom and insight.
Please take a look and feel free to add your own thoughts.
(Funny enough, Nate-the Unicorn Files photographer-was assigned to take the photos for the piece!)
p.s. The ultrasound is a flipped image ;)
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Had to reblog this cosplay. Simply beautiful! <3
Featured Geek: Tina Beychok
[On being a female geek in a male dominated world] “Now that I am the Old Fat Broad of geekdom, I can get away with so much more in terms of calling out bad behavior than I could when I first started out in geekdom. I can be far more blunt and direct than I could before. I can be more confrontational. I don't have to play nice with the boys if the game they are playing is actively harmful.”
As a science and research geek, Tina is fortunate enough to work in STEM and as an academic editor, marrying her personally passions with her professional life. Besides science, Tina geeks out over movies, Electro Swing music, cosplay, knitting, makeup, belly dancing and swordplay. She loves Firefly, Dr.Who, Sherlock, and anything by Bryan Fuller. Tina has been an active member of the geek community for a long time, but recently founded the Backup Ribbon Project, which distributes “Backup” ribbons at geeky events to signify those who are willing to step forward to help other geeks who are being harassed. (Check them out if you would like to get involved!) She proudly notes that the Backup Ribbon Project has the “Wil Wheaton Okie-Dokie Stamp of Approval.” Tina hopes that in the future the geek community will “accept that yes, we are now a mainstream thing and learn to love and embrace that rather than fight it. We are now the cool kids and that, mes amies, is more than just kinda cool.”
Featured Geek: Allison
[On being a female geek in a male dominated world] “I think I've gotten lucky and have gotten into geek culture just as it is bringing this issue to the forefront. I think combined with the power of the internet, businesses and companies can't ignore the voice of fair representation for women. I see and read a lot of darker sides of this issue, but I try to be optimistic. I hope that the progress is made, where young girls can grow up thinking it is just as cool to wear a lab coat, as it is to wear a tiara. I think there are a lot of strong female voices, groups, and organizations out there who are having fun and developing wonderful communities.”
Allison is a newer member to the geek community. Although she played chess and the NES as a child, it wasn’t until her friends introduced her to The Avengers movie that she fully embraced her geekdom within. Ever since, she’s been going full-speed to learn and do as much as possible in the geek realm. After The Avengers, Allison watched all the individual Marvel movies, and recently just bought her first comic books. To increase her exposure to geek culture, her friends started a “nerd night” to introduce Allison to various geeky movies and TV shows (they are currently marathoning Doctor Who), as well as a board game night. In addition, Allison has started attending local nerdy conventions, like PAX and ECCC. When she’s not working as a Quality Control Technician, Allison works as a freelance graphic designer, and recently joined the GeekGirlCon staff as a designer. In her spare time, she enjoys playing chess, attending concerts, and hitting the ballpark (she’s a big Mariners fan).
Featured Geek: Sarah Ballard
[On being a female geek in a male dominated world] “I think I feel like many women in science culture. On some days I feel buried under a mountain of microaggression, self-doubt, and anger. On other days I feel like I uncovered something new about the universe *and* I get to make the path easier for other women. That feels like the clouds have parted and a warm beam of sunshine is illuminating me for a moment.”
As a professional astronomer, Sarah files herself under the umbrella of science geek. She has been involved in some pretty amazing research, like detecting Kepler-19c, an “invisible” planet. However, though she is very passionate about her work, she doesn’t like to think about space in her freetime. Instead she likens herself to the geekiness of Lisa Simpson, having interests in "music, science, justice, animals, shapes, and feelings." When she is not working on kickass space exploration, Sarah enjoys playing the guitar, doing yoga, reading fiction, cooking, and “getting mad about things on the Internet.” Sarah is also very passionate about mentoring and helping others. In fact, she runs a workshop on “the Impostor Syndrome” for scientists, and even created “impostor thought” bingo cards to help others navigate science culture. Overtime, Sarah hopes to change astronomy culture for the better.
Featured Geek: Erika Peterman
[On being a female geek in a male dominated world] “My friend Vanessa and I created Girls-Gone-Geek.com almost five years ago in part because we wanted to prove fandom is diverse — that it doesn't belong to one group of people. I've identified as a geek since I was a kid, so I don't really think about it unless someone expresses surprise that I'm into comics and such. However, I do feel a responsibility to speak up about hostility toward female fans or sexist representations of women in comics.”
Erika is a writer and editor with a passion for comics. She describes herself as that person who is at the comic shop every week “like clockwork.” Although you can find her geeking out on comics, Star Wars, and cosplay, her true love is Wonder Woman. Erika has been a Wonder Woman fan since childhood, adding that if she had the money, her house would be packed with Wonder Woman collectibles and art. She even keeps a framed portrait of Wonder Woman by George Perez in her office as inspiration. Erika also enjoys going to conventions, and hopes that one day she’ll be able to attend geekgirlcon*. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, discovering new music, and is starting to get “serious about writing fiction,” but she adds that her “greatest and most challenging adventure so far is raising two kids, ages 9 and 14.”
*Great choice, Erika! Hope to see you there next year. :)
Check out this picture of The Unicorn Files panel at geekgirlcon! Thank you to everyone who joined us. We had a great time and hope you did too!
And please make sure to contact Terra if you're interested in being a featured geek!
Pictured on Panel: Tammy, Shubz, Meg (volunteer models), Nate (photographer), and Terra (founder).
We also showed a few sneak peeks from the project (images taken by Nate that we haven't released). Here is one of the behind the scene images showing Terra and volunteer model kiricallaghan.
Featured Geek: Jarrah Hodge
[On being a female geek in a male dominated world] “I feel like it's worst online. At Star Trek conventions in particular, the gender balance is pretty equal and everyone is mostly really welcoming and respectful. But in online spaces like the official Star Trek Facebook page and some other forums, trolls dominate and make me and others avoid participating. We need better moderation on these sites to at least ban the most egregious jokes about rape and violence against women, and sexist, racist and homophobic slurs.”
Jarrah is a communications professional by day and feminist Trekkie blogger by night. She is obsessed with “learning anything and everything about women in Star Trek - the roles they filled behind the screen, their importance in Trek fandom, and their representation on-screen” and sharing that information with others. She hopes that her work on feminism and Star Trek lead to positive changes within the geek culture, such as less sexism/racism/and homophobia in online fan spaces. Besides Star Trek, Jarrah's other fandoms include Doctor Who, Fringe, and Orphan Black. In her spare time, she enjoys reading graphic novels and comics (right now she is reading Saga, Lazarus, She-Hulk, and Ms. Marvel) in addition to blogging about feminism.
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