Geek Girl Con Review Part 1: Satuday

This weekend I attended the Geek Girl con in Seattle.

http://www.geekgirlcon.com/
Free your inner Geek Girl! Come to GeekGirlCon in Seattle this October 8 & 9, 2011 at the Seattle Center Northwest Rooms and EMP Museum to laugh, learn, and connect. All geeks welcome.

These are the Panels I attended on Satuday:


Lessons Learned from the World of LOLcats, FAILS, and Other Blunders
 I had heard of LOLCats and Fail mostly from Facebook. This was an interesting back story of the company, and how the site got started. The presenter, Emily Huh, gave a witty, informative overview of the sites and shared some things that those who run the site have learned from the users. Overall, a very entertaining an lighthearted way for me to start out the con!

Very Special Dudes

 This panel was one of the best executed out of all the panels. The moderate deftly introduced and directed the panelists, and fielded audience questions. I felt that the panels had an interesting viewpoint as they were all male, and I'm sure that for gender equality, not just one gender, but both must be involved in the discussion.

History of the Universe as Told by Wonder Woman

 This presentation was mostly of the footage from the independent documentary, History of the Universe as Told by Wonder Woman, with director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan. There were five other panelists besides the director, however, as the film took up much of the presentation time, there was very little time at the end for discussion. The documentary looks like a promising take with insightful observations, and I look forward to seeing the final production.

Character Studies: Keep Girls in Popular Culture

 As the previous panel I attended (History of the Universe...) ran late, I was delayed in arriving for this panel. When I entered they were discussing Buffy the Vampire Slayer and continued on with many more interesting topics and ideas such as "Intellect makes geeks empowered and this is a better scenario than geeks simply begin gifted with powers".

“No, I am not a Booth Babe:” Sexism in the Video Game Industry

 The final panel I attended on Saturday was a more casual panel run by three panelists who preferred to have a discussion with the audience rather than a presentation. They were entertaining to listen to and attempted to exist alongside the audience rather than separate themselves from it.

This day was chock full of feminist discussions and included lot of topics, information and insights in relation to feminism and women in the world.

To be continued...