By: Meg Humphrey What most people who know me through conventions and fan communities don’t know is that I’m actually quite shy. When I’m out of my element, I tend to feel pretty embarrassed for no reason and have a hard time striking up or keeping conversations. Even places I think I might be okay, […]
Tag Archives: Kickstarter
June 15
Featured Kickstarter: The Unicorn Files Photo Book
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By: TCO Warning, today’s Featured Kickstarter is totally self-promotion since it is my Kickstarter. 🙂 About a year and a half ago, I started “The Unicorn Files: Debunking the Myth of the Female Geek,” a project that highlights different geeky women in the community. And today, I’m launching a Kickstarter in the hopes of raising the funds […]
March 20
Featured Kickstarter: buddingSTEM, a Clothing Line for Geeky Girls
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By:TCO While shopping for gifts for my friend’s soon to be born daughter, I was annoyed at the array of princess outfits but lack of things I know my friend would actually like. (Namely I was looking for anything and everything pirate since she and her husband are essentially pirates…besides the whole stealing from people thing. […]
November 10
Featured Kickstarter: SpeakEasy – A Bold Pub Game
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By: TCO Though locals might not like to admit it, Seattle’s infamous reputation for being a socially cold city is very real. Sure people are nice here, but talk to any transplant and they’ll tell you that the “Seattle Freeze” exists. It’s just hard to meet people in this passive-aggressive city. Local game designers, Jerome and Eddie, are […]
July 23
Featured Kickstarter: Jess Archer Versus Web Series
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By: Terra Clarke Olsen Amy Taylor is a geek (self-proclaimed Whovian, Browncoat, Tolkien fanatic) on a mission. Although Amy works as a director on the weekly PBS movie review show called Just Seen It, she dreams of bringing her own original content to the masses. Enter the Jess Archer Versus Kickstarter. Jess Archer Versus is a would-be web series […]
June 13
Featured Kickstarter: Together
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By: Terra Clarke Olsen A few days ago, I stumbled on the Kickstarter Together: Amna and Saif, and immediately decided to back this game. It was too beautiful not to back. Plus, the protagonists are people of color (and one is a female!), something most current games extremely lack. But once I started to read about the game […]
March 19
Special Screening of Legends of the Knight
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By: Curtis [Note: My friend, Curtis, originally posted this on his podcast’s website, Clinically Inane. This is a great idea for a great cause, so I asked permission to reblog it. Please help spread the word about this event!] As some of you may or may not know, last year I supported a documentary via […]
March 14
Featured Kickstarter: Amy’s Mochi
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Featured Kickstarter: Amy’s Mochi By: Meg Humphrey Amy Eam is a Seattleite with a passion for mochi. “What’s mochi?” you might ask! Mochi is a Japanese treat made of glutinous rice that is pounded into a paste and then shaped (usually into balls). Although mochi by itself is more on the savory side (since it […]
February 19
Featured Kickstarter: Dead Pastel
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Featured Kickstarter: Dead Pastel By: Meg Humphrey I’ve always been into the combination of creepy and cute (or I’ve always mislabeled “creepy” things as “cute” but I think that’s splitting hairs). When two of my GeekGirlCon colleagues revealed their new clothing line, Dead Pastel, I was immediately excited! Dead Pastel is the love child of […]
January 24
Featured Kickstarter: Geeky Sprinkles
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Featured Kickstarter: Geeky Sprinkles By: Terra Clarke Olsen I love when two of my favorite worlds collide. In this instance, it happens to be three–geek life, baking, and fundraising! I recently backed the Kickstarter for Geeky Sprinkles, and of course, I have to help spread the word so this project can happen (and so I […]
November 27
Goldieblox: Making Engineering Girly
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Goldieblox: Making Engineering Girly By: LB Chambers At long last, the Kickstartered Goldieblox toys are available for purchase. Delivering in mid-December, these engineering toys are meant to encourage girls development of building and math skills. Their website touts the products as “toys for future inventors,” and each set includes a building set and storybook that […]
August 05
Nerdy Kickstarters!
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Nerdy Kickstarters! By: Terra Olsen Kickstarter has proven to be a great way to fund awesome ideas into reality. But there are soooo many different Kickstarters, it can be hard to pick which one(s) to support. So I decided to feature a few awesome and nerdy Kickstarters I think you should consider backing: Nerdy Candles: […]