{"id":338,"date":"2012-08-12T20:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T03:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-08-12T20:57:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T03:57:01","slug":"geek-girl-con-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/geek-girl-con-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Girl Con 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you contain a group of strangers in a conference room on a Sunday afternoon?<a href=\"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/geekgirlcon_2012_340x340_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-342\" title=\"geekgirlcon_2012_340x340_2\" src=\"http:\/\/annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/geekgirlcon_2012_340x340_2-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/geekgirlcon_2012_340x340_2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/geekgirlcon_2012_340x340_2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/geekgirlcon_2012_340x340_2.png 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An alien cyborg who comes to Earth to collect dandelions\u00a0she will need to\u00a0save her royal parents were are being held for ransom by a drug cartel.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to &#8220;How to Build a Superheroine,&#8221; a workshop I particpated in with the talented Eilis Flynn and Gail Simone at this year&#8217;s Geek Girl Con.<\/p>\n<p>The Con was created to celebrate the female geek. Whether you were into comics and role playing games, or computers\u00a0and science, fans of <em>Firefly<\/em> were welcomed to stand next to those of <em>Dr. Who <\/em>and<em> Games of Thrones. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>GGC12 was by no means a &#8220;down with men&#8221; event, but a forum for women with like-minded interest to come together in the sisterhood of geekness.\u00a0The message that I was struck most with was that\u00a0as a society, we not only have to create the opportunities for women in the fields of science and technology, but also encourage\u00a0them to explore their interests in these studies, especially our children.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks go\u00a0to the staff of Geek Girl Con for putting on a fantastic show, and I look forward to attending next year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you contain a group of strangers in a conference room on a Sunday afternoon? An alien cyborg who comes to Earth to collect dandelions\u00a0she will need to\u00a0save her royal parents were are being held for ransom by a drug cartel. Welcome to &#8220;How to Build a Superheroine,&#8221; a workshop I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39eCR-5s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaalexander.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}