Hey, They Let Me Talk In Public!

So, I’m a panelist at Norwescon, a local SF/F convention.  I do this every year, and I quite like it.  This year in addition to my usual “don’t be a giant toolbox to women and you might get laid” panels, and panels on Victorian Sex (last year this turned into an hour and a half long...

You know when I said I wasn’t always the poster child for HAES/Body Acceptance

My Body Acceptance is at kind of an ebb right now. I’ve been feeling meh and unattractive and unlovely for awhile now.  I know part of it is that we’ve been running full tilt since June and we were preparing to move.  Part of it is work stress.  Part of it is that we spent a lot of June and...

Women and Weights

Yes, I know.  There are very important things going on right now.  Osama bin Laden is dead, but I just can’t rejoice over the death of anyone.  I guess I really am just too much of a hippy for my own good.  Am I sad to see him go?  No. But neither can I rejoice in the streets. And the Republicans...

Polimicks Podcast Part 2

All right, we’ve got Podcast one, Part 2 up with intro and outro music and everything.  I’m still figuring some of this stuff out, as I’ve never bothered with it in the Geek Girls Rule podcasts. Polimicks 001 Part B with music This is the remainder of our conversation about growing up and...

Welcome to All of Those Who Came to Norwescon!!!!

I hope at least some of you came here after hearing us talk!  The Body Acceptance is for Everyone panel went very well, I’m just sad we didn’t have more time.  I talked to the head of programming and I think we may break it up into a panel on Body Acceptance and a separate panel on HAES. So,...

It’s the Little Things that Count

I’ve talked about my former doctor here before.  The fact that she’d act disappointed when the numbers of my blood tests and blood pressure were awesome (because they are) because I could use that to derail her “THE DETHFATZ R KILLIN U!” lectures at me.  As a matter of fact, this is...