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…
Posts Tagged 'Gender issues'
Review /3: Gendering Science Fiction Films by Susan A. George
1950s B-films like The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Attack of the 50-Foot Woman (1958), or Invasion of the…
SuperMOOC Update: Gender Through Comics Books
On April 16th, I announced on this blog that I was taking part in a SuperMOOC, a Massively Open Online Course, titled Gender Through Comic books. You can read my initial thoughts here.
At the time, my intention was to blog about the course each week. Then I realized it was over.
What I wish I could unlearn from Star Trek TNG / 1: Women are equal to men. In theory.
Since my blog’s creation last September, I have written about my (anthropological) perceptions of science-fiction on a few occasions.
In From Science-Fiction to Anthropology: there and back again, I described in detail the curiosity Star Trek and other sci-fi franchises have sparked in me for otherness and extreme alterity. This, I believe, is one of various elements that led me study anthropology, which in turn, brought me to be much more critical of the themes science-fiction explores.
The Geek Anthropologist 