Reality Checks: Making DnD Safe for Women, Bystander Intervention, Deadliness of Cervical Cancer, and Knitting for the Resistance

Elizabeth — January 24, 2017

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All female DnD groups. I’m not sure which I expect to hear first about this from sexists: reverse sexism or fake gamer girls. (via LAweekly)
Guide to bystander intervention. (via afsc.org)
Cervical cancer is a lot deadlier than we thought, due to a calculation error. (via Ars Technica)
Knitting as dissent. (via University of Nebraska)

Featured image credit: Katrina Br*?#*[email protected] via flickr

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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