Nerdlesque and Body Positive Cosplay: Stripping Down Sexual Paradigms in Geek Culture
By Emma Louise Backe The lights on the stage dim, a lone spotlight hovering over a dark figure clad in…
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2015 in Review: Geek Girls and Gender
By Emma Louise Backe For several years, TGA founder Marie-Pierre has been conducting research on the fraudulent phenomenon of “fake…
A Geek’s Guide to Washington D.C.’s AwesomeCon
By Emma Louise Backe Awesome Con is in Washington, D.C. this weekend and I can’t wait to see the Metro…
Geeking Out with Louise Krasniewicz
By Emma Louise Backe Louise Krasniewicz teaches anthropology classes on zombies, steampunk, science fiction and comic books. As a self-proclaimed…
Freaks & Geeks: A Cultural History of the Term “Geek”
By Emma Louise Backe As a blog interested in the anthropological study of geek culture, we are also concerned with…
The Geek Anthropologist 