Happy fall, y’all! We’ve added a new recommendation to our list of nonfiction feminist media: Sara Ahmed’s newest book, Living a Feminist Life. Anita can’t put it down, and my copy is here beside me […]
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Officer K and the Real Girl: Cultural Dehumanization in Blade Runner 2049
The original Blade Runner is a film without heroes, but to me, the most sympathetic characters have always been the four rogue replicants that Rick Deckard hunts down and kills over the course of the […]
Geek Girls, Assemble!
The FemFreq team had a great weekend in Seattle at GeekGirlCon 2017, and we’ve got the pictures to prove it! We had a dynamite time getting to talk to long-standing FemFreq supporters, and meeting […]
FREQ #17: Ann Leckie Imagines A World Without Gender
Our latest issue of the FREQ newsletter features an interview with the fascinating Ann Leckie, who wrote her critically-acclaimed and best-selling debut novel, Ancillary Justice, when she was a stay-at-home mom well into her […]
UK Conference Inducts Anita Into European Women in Games Hall of Fame
Anita delivered the keynote address at the 2017 Women in Games Conference at the East London Arts and Music Academy on September 6th. Women in Games is a non-profit, games industry diversity organization, and their […]
Facing the Darkness Within: The Importance of Acting in Observer and Hellblade
Acting matters, but some acting matters more than others. The 2013 film Locke, for instance, takes place entirely in a single car, being driven by a single man, played by Tom Hardy. His performance absolutely […]
We’ve Got to Stop Depending Upon Disgust
Disgust is everywhere these days – have you noticed? Without question, a number of despicable things have occurred in the past few weeks. To name a few: a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, complete with […]
Party vs. Video Games: Celebrating Tropes
You didn’t think we’d let the wrap of Tropes vs. Women in Video Games pass without a proper celebration, did you? This past Saturday – five years after Anita launched the Tropes Kickstarter – we […]
Tacoma Review: Found in Space
Perhaps more than anything else, Tacoma is proof that a decent story, brilliantly told (which Tacoma is) is far better than a brilliant story, decently told. The follow-up to their debut masterpiece, Gone Home, Tacoma […]
Pyre Review: The Fires of Freedom
Games almost always want us to feel like a great deal is at stake. Our hero’s life, or the outcome of a war, or maybe the fate of the universe. But few games succeed at […]
Masculinity, Rage, and Racism: Some Thoughts on War for the Planet of the Apes
War for the Planet of the Apes may be the least subtle film I have ever seen. Of course, not every film has to be subtle, but at a certain point, enduring a movie that […]
Contained in Our Moments: Ignorance and Love in Nier: Automata and The Witcher 3
PLEASE NOTE: This piece discusses the ending of Nier: Automata in extreme detail. I finally finished The Witcher 3, that beast of a game. I have plenty of gripes with it. It egregiously sensationalizes […]