Browsing Submissions (6 total)

The Female Avatar is a look at the construction of virtual female bodies within the realm of Second Life:

I was contemplating some of the issues with “gender inclusive” game design and sort of ran a muck with thoughts. Below is part of what came of it.

For an industry concerned with trying to appeal to women, You’d think they would first find…

Many of the submissions for the Hack Gender project are essentially anonymous: they are attributed to handles, to screennames, to identities that have been constructed in LiveJournal or Twitter but that maintain a degree of separation from the…

This post is intended to be used for the Hack Gender project currently taking place this week. It’s a fantastic endeavor to understand Gender in a digital world. This is something I wrote some time ago, and still feel to this day. As an avid…

"My Gender Is" is an automated tool that culls public Tweets, Facebook Status Updates and recently added search results for the prompt "my gender is" and presents some of the many responses. The scale of the text is used to represent recency, and the…

There was once a girl who lived in a small village by the sea. She was in many ways like all the other girls in the village, except for her desire to fly. One day, when she was sitting on the cliffs watching the stars and the lights in the sky, her…