Women’s History Month – She Did It!, Women in Deep Freeze, Femme Powered Films
Happy Women’s History Month! Geek Girl Riot is celebrating by shouting out our favorite femmes…and calling out what needs to change.
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Happy Women’s History Month! Geek Girl Riot is celebrating by shouting out our favorite femmes…and calling out what needs to change.
Geek Girl Riot is throwing some love-confetti on YA this week, with a new book roundup and a wishlist of what adaptations we want to see next. Plus, a brand new edition of She Did It!
We chat to the queen of YA, Nicola Yoon, then proclaim She Did It! about the legendary Mary Shelley & Jane Yolen. We also talk Ralph Breaks the Internet’s mega princess bonanza.
Welcome to the fourth edition of She Did It!—a Geek Girl Riot segment + monthly column reminding us that everything boys can do, girls probably did first. Today, we’re talking Domee Shi and Alice Guy-Blaché.
YA author Nicola Yoon joins us for her very own Whachudoin’?, then we bring back our She Did It! segment to highlight Mary Shelley and Jane Yolen. Plus, a report all about Escape Velocity, and a review of Bilal.
Welcome to the third edition of She Did It!—a new Geek Girl Riot segment + monthly column reminding us that everything boys can do, girls probably did first. Today, we’re talking Mary Shelley and Jane Yolen.
She Did It!, a superpowered team up of Geek Girl Riot and La Femme Collective, is here to shine a light on awesome ladies who didn’t always get the credit they deserved. First up: mathematician and NASA “supercomputer”, Katherine G. Johnson.
Four years ago, Sean “Diddy” Combs took his hip-hop swagger across the nation in an effort to get young people to vote, with the bold slogan “Vote or Die.” Now, on the eve of Super Tuesday’s primary contests, the entertainer has just a simple message: Go vote. “If we want to stop the war, if we want to get the economy better, I think that young people need to understand they have to take matters into their own hands,” Combs, 38, told Some political analysts believe the youth vote could be a key factor in this year’s presidential election. On… Read more »
Running on a bum right knee and after just two months of training, hip-hop entrepreneur Sean “P. Diddy” Combs completed the grueling New York City Marathon, raising $2 million for children – double what he had planned. “Never in my life have I ever experienced anything as crazy as this,” Combs said Sunday at a news conference. “It was a beautiful experience.” Combs’ official race time was 4:14:54. It was his first marathon. The producer-rapper said he had raised $2 million since announcing in September that he would run. The money will be divided among two children’s charities and New… Read more »
Following the release of “Pill To Swallow,” Softcult is back with “Naive.” The shimmering shoegaze track is raw, touching on the moment when the rose-colored glasses fall off. Softcult notes of the song, “It’s about coming to the painful realization that the person, idea, or reality we trusted and believed in never really existed in the first place. This song is about the moment the scales fall from our eyes after we realize we’ve been romanticizing someone or the idea of someone. After this moment, we’re no longer able to see them or the world as innocently as we did… Read more »
