Meet TBH Authors at Geek Girl Con

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Lake Desire

If you live in Seattle and/or are planning on attending Geek Girl Con this upcoming weekend, be sure to attend the Border House panel You Play Like a Girl: Video Games, Feminism, and The Border House on Sunday, Oct 9 from 4 to 5 PM in the Lopez room.  TBH authors Deirdra, Brinstar, Quinnae, and myself will be panelists.  Here’s the details:

The Border House bloggers address the trials and tribulations of starting a feminist blog for gamers. Topics include developing a unique and compelling angle, identifying and engaging your readership, exploring the ways video game culture can be more inclusive of women, and what’s wrong (and what’s right) with games and gameplay today.

I’ve never been to a fan convention before, so I especially thrilled to be participating in GGC.

About Lake Desire

Lake Desire, real name Ariel Wetzel, has been blogging about feminism and videogames since 2005 at her blog New Game Plus. She also writes at Feminist SF - The Blog! Lake Desire is an English graduate student at University of Washington, where she studies science fiction, feminism, and cyberculture. At her workplace, she participates in rank and file labor organizing and the anti-budget cuts struggle. She believes in direct democracy, queer liberation, and opposes white supremacy, patriarchy, and imperialism. She is white, queer, feminist, anarchist, and of course a cyborg. She may not sound like your typical gamer, but has been gaming since she was a toddler and never managed to quit.
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7 Responses to Meet TBH Authors at Geek Girl Con

  1. Rakaziel says:
    October 2, 2011 at 5:16 pm

    Sounds like a great event. Have fun!

  2. Glynis Mitchell says:
    October 3, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    Yesssss GGC. I was hoping to make it to that panel! I’m on the Women In Webseries panel on Saturday with a bunch of awesome lady creators. Ours got moved so I can totally check y’all out!

  3. Alex says:
    October 3, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    I sooooo wish I could go!! Have fun and please report back about the panel!

  4. Lake Desire says:
    October 3, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    If anyone has a chance to take pictures or record audio, feel free to send it to me at my user name on this site @ gmail.com and I’ll see if one of us can post a recap. :)

  5. jccalhoun says:
    October 3, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    what bad luck. I’m flying into Seattle that evening for the Internet Researchers conference. Wish I would have known about this in time to change my travel pans. Best of luck on the panel!

  6. Brinstar says:
    October 4, 2011 at 9:50 am

    In addition to our The Border House panel, I will also be on a panel about race and feminism at GeekGirlCon: http://www.geekgirlcon.com/con/saturday-programming/#feminism

    :)