If you don’t know the name Grace Hopper, spend 16 minutes with the QUEEN OF CODE from the Signals channel at 538. Populate your scenes of computer science with Grace Hoppers. And Hedy Lamarrs. And the women they have inspired like Brittany Wenger.
How “Strong Female Characters” Still End Up Weak And Powerless
Comments on and links toTerrible Minds blog on real agency for female characters, and Ada Hoffman’s excellent Twitter series about agency in plot, not character.
Confess This: Envy and Loathing Get You Nothing.
In which Karin Kallmaker answers Jowita Bydlowska’s (“Confessions of a Failed Romance Writer”) breathtaking disrespect of romance writers and readers. There is cursing.
Dear Dairy – reblog from KG MacGregor
My example is from Love by the Numbers:
“She loved her beautiful back hair.” I caught that in the last proof before the book went to press.
Why There Should Not Be Special Rules for Lesfic Book Reviews
Authors in lesbian fiction are not able to withstand customary, ongoing criticism like writers in other genres?