Review / 2: Sexual Generations: “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Gender by Robin Roberts
While deep down an internet rabbit hole one day I came across a catalog listing for a book that sounded…
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Fantasy and the Female Body
By Emma Louise Backe Tamora Pierce has assumed a canonical place in fantasy literature, especially for younger readers. Pierce’s stories…
Scholarly Hipsters, Scholarly Geeks Part 3: The Baker Street Ethnographers
(Part 3 of a series on what it might look like to think of “geek” as a mode in which scholarly…
Beam Me Up, Sociology!
The first episode of Star Trek I remember watching was the Next Generation episode “The Best of Both Worlds, Part…
Bones, Betazoids and Battleaxes: Life and Times of an Anthrogeek
My mother was (and is) a fan of all things science fiction and fantasy. She named me Rayna after an…
The Geek Anthropologist 