or Geeks in the House: We’re at the Party, Now What Do We Do?

I feel that GeekGirlCon overall was an astounding success! I mean a FIRST YEAR CON sold out every day?! As a part time con-runner myself I understand what a feat that is. Those ladies worked their butts off all year and they completely deserve the outpour of support the blogosphere has bestowed on them. Here is me knighting you as protectors of the marginalized geeks!  (Imagine it in your heads, it’s awesome like at the end of Episode IV and you get gorgeous flowers from Pike Place Market at the end of the ceremony.)

I wish I could have spent more time there over the weekend but I ended up with the perfect dose of fem nerd community and Seattle indoctrination. (My plane left early on Sunday so I missed out on that day, I’m still proud to have bought a 2 day pass and supported this endeavor!)

I apologize if I was a bit of a downer on Twitter when hashtagging it (that’s right I verbized that word). All in all I think it was a success and hope it’s the beginning of a great thing.  Gail Simone said on Twitter that she felt like it was a sort of Woodstock, the start of a wonderful and powerful movement.  I think it totally could be.  Here’s the but, in the shadow of Occupy WallStreet I was hoping for more of a call to arms. I understand that has to get worked up to, but I really hope the general consensus of “this is the start of something great” follows through next year. Because I’m totally going back and dragging people with me. Addendum (because I originally drafted this on my plane ride home Sunday): after reading a lot of the blog recaps of the weekend I think this seed was planted and is definitely taking root in everyone’s mind who attended. May it bloom and grow!

More of my thoughts after the break, including the issues I think will bring us into the second wave of geekdom…

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(This is to accompany this. Since apparently text-cuts don’t work in photo posts! Uhg, tumblr, why?!)

For a larger version of this image, go here.

About halfway through drawing this, I realized what I had created was effectively a Bingo Card, but perhaps a slightly more emotive one. So I’ll explain a bit of what’s behind it.

I first got into comics through feminist criticism of comics. I’m a feminist. And I love comics. The two things for me are inseparable, and I make no apologies for it. Both are a part of who I am. I’m also a fan of superheroes and superhero comics.

When it comes to discussions about women in comics, sexism in superhero comics, and so forth, I’m always reading, sometimes linking, and commenting a bit here and there. If you pay attention for a while as a female (and possibly feminist) comics reader, and/or superhero fan, you start to hear the same things over and over again. It becomes predictable and repetitive pretty quickly.

Below I’ve expanded on what I’m talking about. It’s lengthy, so it’s behind a text cut.

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This is exactly what a lot of the people at GeekGirlCon this weekend are talking AROUND but not ABOUT!