Alliance for Girls in STEM

Diverse YA Lit Meme: 2/2 diverse authors

This is the gigantic nebula Gum 56, illuminated by the clusters of bright young stars that were born within it. European Southern Observatory published it with a really great title: “Cosmic Recycling“ because that’s pretty much what’s going on there. For millions of years stars have been created out of the gas in this nebula. Besides the newborn stars, there is enough material filled in the large region to create an even newer generation of stars. But the thing is this material forming these new stars includes the remains of the massive stars from an older generation that have already ended their lives and expelled their material into space. So it really is cosmic recycling.

Author Defends Sci-Fi as A “Purely Male Domain” in Cringingly Sexist Review of All-Women Anthology

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There isn’t much diversity in the tech industry and there is even less in the games industry. 

But these are good jobs. We do work that is creative and technical and cutting edge. We have good job security and good incomes. We have flexible hours. 

There are barriers to entry into the games industry to women and to other people who don’t fit the “computer geek” and/or “gamer” stereotype. In this post I’ll focus on barriers that women specifically may face, and some of the things we can do about them.