geek girl con

At the end of a long week, kick back with a couple of links, fresh off the Internet.

• Jos Truitt over at Feministing, looking at the recent events in Topeka, Kansas, reminds us how the police really don't care about sexual violence.
• Think Progress shakes it's head at a Fox News doctor suggesting that a transgender youth needs psychological evaluation.
• Racialicious asks "why do so many TV fans hate black woman characters?"
• Colorlines talks with Sundance fave director Dee Dee about her experiences of coming out.
• Jarrah at Gender Focus recaps the Geek Girl Con panel featuring the Harlem Globetrotters Dream Team of Anita Sarkeesian, Leah Wilson, Kristy Guevara Flanagan, and our own Kjerstin Johnson and Kelsey Wallace
• Tiger Beatdown goes ahead and calls out the call-out culture.
• Transgriot gives TMZ a lesson on style (and it has nothing to do with clothes).

Let us know what you think in the comments.

Kelsey and I traveled up to Seattle last weekend for two days of geekery at the first-ever Geek Girl Con! We went to panels on women in video games, race and gender in geekdom, women in horror fans, and way more. We were also honored to be on the panel "Media Literacy, Criticism and Production" along with some other really rad women. For this episode of Bitch Radio, here's a good chunk of our panel for you to listen to. Along with me and Kelsey, you'll hear from Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, director of the forthcoming The History of the World as Told by Wonder Woman (we saw clips, it's gonna be amazing!), Anita Sarkeesian, the woman behind Feminist Frequency (you may know her from Mad World and Tropes vs. Women), Leah Wilson, editor of Smart Pop Books, and moderated by Maile Martinez, programming director at Seattle's venerable Reel Grrls! Thanks to everyone who came out to hear us, you were a wonderful audience! Oh, and here's the link to that Strong Female Characters post by s.e. smith I mentioned!