I'll pass it along.
Do you know the magazine 1up?

http://boards.1up.com/

Also try The Comics Journal
http://www.tcj.com/messboard/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi

If you're commissioning pieces, Michelle Tea went to the San Diego Comic Con last year when Rent Girl was new. Aside from the fight at the reading I set up, she had a great time.

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I'm already trying to cook something up for you. This is right up my alley!

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Awesome! Please feel free to query us with what you're thinking about.

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Since you guys made it into boingboing_net, I'd better get a jump on it! Should I send my query to the email address listed above?

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Sure, that would be great, thanks!

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Oh I'm definitely sending in something.

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hey, I resemble that anthology ;-) I'll certainly be thinking about how much of my geekly lifestyle would fit in a piece for you.

geekishly pedantic query: do you mean Word document?

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Yes, a Word document is great. Thanks.

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Are essays that wholly/partially appeared online before (as, say, part of a blog entry) fair game, or not?

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We'd certainly consider them.

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Anything by you, las!

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Er...

I'm having a bit of a dilemma here, because I could write a book about the above subject despite not being able to do basic arythmetic...

Conversely some of the "I'm Girly Geek & I'm Proud" brigade are just as narrow minded, unimaginative and uninformed as the sheep-like members of any other [coughspit] "subculture" (Goth Chicks & College Lesbians, anyone? ;).

So do articles from women whose main encroachment on the male domain is having more brains than is good for them count, or do we all have to be code writing Maths graduates?

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You're welcome to send us a piece, but we're definitely more looking for pieces from women in geeky fields, including math and science.

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While I am a tripod and as such might be laughed right out of this conversation, it's entirely true that the same is true of men. Of course, it's not true of either gender when their appearance conforms closely enough to the current cultural ideal, but I'm pretty sure neither one of us is talking about that. Believe me, smart guys who act like they aren't get more attention than those of us who are not afraid to be ourselves in the presence of the opposite sex. Nothing turns a[n average] woman off like technobabble :)

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Hi,

I'm a girl geek who draws comics AND does role-play. Ha ha! I'd be interested in submitting something to your book. I have an interesting view on geek gender relations, being someone who role plays online as both male and female characters.

In my experience, though the majority of geeks are male, females are definitely catching up in numbers, at least in the comics world.

I'm definitely thinking about submitting for this!

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I don't think I'm geek enough. :(

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oh, jules, my love, you are geek enough for me and I love you for it. *hugs* you can't help that you are our resident swedish geek :)

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*big geeky grin*

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Wow. not only am I a geek girl, I work at an engineering firm (granted, I am in HR, but I know more about nuclear power than is good for me) and I have serious geek love. This is great.

*runs off to write something witty, insightful and fun*

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Yep, I'm totally submitting something.

Being a one time published author in the genre (I had a short story published in an anthology several years ago), as well as an RPGer and long time Scifi genre buff in TV, movies and literature, I'd love to write about the social expectations of being a geek girl in a geek man's world, as well as a bit about the social divide between geek and non-geek, and how that divide is vastly different for women than it is for men.

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Hmmm... this could be fun. And I can at least do the introspective part.

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I'd love to write something, having grown up totally geek. I needed no conversion, I started geeky and was always bored by the mundane. (Playing house? BO-RING. I made up all my own games as a kid..)

Then again, since I'm in grad school in Chemistry right now, I'm not sure I'll have enough time. :/

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Definitely submitting something. Also I posted this to gamer_chicks (for rpgs, not computer games); I hope that was OK.

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Wow, I am completely on board for this. Assuming I don't completely pass out from exhaustion in the next few weeks I'm definitely submitting. Brilliant idea, I hope to be a part of it.

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Hah, just goes to show how tired I am, I used completely twice in a row. Good god *beats self on the head with a thesaurus* I swear I'm better when I've slept.

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Hi -- I have a journal entry I want to share with you. It's a rather harsh but etherial stream-of-conscious piece that I wrote shortly after returning from a very hi-tech conference over a year ago. It generated some fascinating discussion following it, from both men and women, lots of thoughts on gender stereotypes, gender roles, pain, fear, and shame.

I think it could possibly be fascinating to rework it into an essay for your book -- but I'm concerned it's not "geeky" enough. Although it began as "how does the only girl in a room full of men handle herself?" , the discussion is really more about "how do men and women interact with each other without fear or shame?" Very much about gender, but only somewhat about being a girl geek surrounded by men.

Anyway, your thoughts? Is it worth playing with? Are there copyright issues? Here's the link:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/renniekins/291365.html

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It's pretty powerful stuff, but I don't think it's enough about being a geek to work for our book. But if you want to come up with a different spin on the idea, or a different idea altogether, please send a query to sheissuchageek@gmail.com so both Annalee and I can look it over. Thanks so much!

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Okay thanks, I will work up a geekier idea and send it along. *smile*

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Am working on a piece for your publication (which seems very exciting, btw) and wanted to run the basic idea by you. I'm an ethnic minority in Texas, and I geek out via LARP, usually. I wanted to discuss modern expression of the Uhura stereotype in geekdom and fandom...do you think that clutters the issues that this collection addresses?

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Yes, please write something on that topic. We'd love to see it!

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Hi there- sounds like a great idea. Good luck with it.

I wonder: Would you be interested in an essay or some such writing exploring how geek girls relate- ie, for women who are used to functioning in predominantly male hobbies/fields, what are the unusual challenges of becoming close with other women such as themselves?

It's something I've done some thinking/talking about with folks like perkyshai and I think it would bear some further examination. Let me know if it interests you, I could use an intellectual project.

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This sounds fantastic, and definitely a topic we were very eager to address in the book. If you can write this soon, we would love to see it!

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I tried mailing the article a couple of times on the above mentioned address.
But it always gives a delivery failure notification.

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Okay, that's really weird. Other people have been sending articles without any problem. Are you sure you're sending to sheissuchageek@gmail.com and not some other spelling? If it still doesn't work, I can suggest other addresses.

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Thanks I am through in the second attempt.

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