Monday, July 16, 2012
The Ladies / Nerd Here Is Your GeekGirlCon 2012 Schedule
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:21 PM
The debut of Geek Girl Con was a great success last year, with both days selling out just about immediately. This year's Geek Girl Con takes place on August 11th and 12th, and the schedules for both days have just been released. Go check them out: Saturday is here and Sunday is here.
Highlights include "Making Science Fun (with NASA)!," "Self-Driving Cars," "Why Men Write Women Poorly, and How to Get a Clue," "Women in Westeros: Is Game of Thrones Sexist?," a panel on building robots, "Learn to Solder!," and the "Batgirls, One Year Later" panel with writer Gail Simone and the fan who dressed as Batgirl during last year's San Diego Comic Con and led a charge against DC Comics to show more gender parity in their comics and their staff.
The thing I especially like about Geek Girl Con is that it's wide-ranging in its nerdiness. Everything from comics to film to real-life science and crafting projects are prominent on the schedule. Go check out the schedules and start planning your Geek Girl Con right now.
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I am slightly concerned about too many well-intentioned boys like myself showing up and making it a little fem-focused, but I'm sure it'll turn out okay. Seriously, though, it's a good con for a lot of reasons.
(And for the record, yes, Game of Thrones is somewhat sexist in places, surprisingly progressive and insightful in others, but overall not as bad as it could have been and better than a lot of the competition. If you want a profile of sexism in fantasy just as a point of comparison, pick up R. Scott Bakker's "Prince of Nothing" books. Or better yet, fucking don't. Ugh.)
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