I have done several panels in the past few years and this is by far the most asked question. Just to clarify, I am inexperienced, but I am a developer working for a AAA company. I think this puts me an interesting position when talking about this t…
The following is a statistical analysis of the League of Legends Champion's character design from a gendered perspective. In this analysis data was collected directly from the champion profiles listed on leagueoflegends.com/champions. Data is valid…
Image Credit: opensourceway. Open source is rapidly becoming one of the most influential communities of our time, but I have been noticing more recently that many open source projects are lacking in female founders, contributors, and supporters. So…
This past Friday (March 14th) I was invited to speak on a Women within Games panel at the University of Alberta's "Can you DiG it?" Humanities Computing Conference. In this post I want to quickly summarize the panel and discuss some of the issues t…
In order to make this argument it is crucial to define what I am referring to as 4th wave feminism. From what I have noticed through most online sources and communities, the defining characteristics seem to be, first, the use of an online me…
