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Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol

The [..] threat [..] is in the loyalist, Protestant part of east Belfast where vigilantes rove the [streets] to confront foreign-looking men. Or, as their Facebook page puts it: “Concerned parents … working together, patrolling Belfast streets, for the safety and protection of our children and vulnerable people.”
An Orwellian claim. Almost half of those arrested for race hate disorder in Belfast last summer had previously been reported to police for domestic abuse.

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the best infosec-related long reads.
This week's selection covers
--A twisted tale of how two men tortured someone for his crypto account passwords,
--Russia's cyber sector supports Putin's Ukraine war,
--A brain-reading implant requires a password,
--Social media algorithms didn't cause America's woes,
--The internet is really bad for children,
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 8/9/25
A twisted tale of how two men tortured someone for his crypto account passwords, Russia's cyber sector supports Putin's Ukraine war, A brain-reading implant requires a password, Social media algorithms didn't cause America's woes, The internet is really bad for children, more

A large number of armed Customs and Border Patrol agents responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying at least three rounds of tear gas over the area,
even with children and seniors in the area.
At least four protesters were detained.
“When you’re using these tactics, you are asking people to be hospitalized,”
said Oscar Sanchez, a member of a rapid response network that tracks immigration enforcement activity.
He said h…

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who protested the tactics of immigration agents.

Phase 2 of the #GazaGenocide:
Israel occupies >53%.
Friday, killed a family travelling in a vehicle: 7 children, 2 men, 2 women.
Invisible kill line like the "temporary" 1948 Green Line.
50 million tonnes of rubble, mixed with human remains and unexploded munitions.
Continued blockade of aid and human passage.
Since the Trump plan signed, more than 50…

Fase 2 del genocidio israelí: ocupación del 53% de Gaza, asesinatos, segregación y línea amarilla
En una semana de tregua Israel ha matado a 59 personas, varios niños y niñas, mantiene bloqueado el paso de Rafah, y consolida su ocupación en más de la mitad de la Franja, con la señalización de una línea de separación

When men drink, women and children pay the price #health

When men drink, women and children pay the price
Men’s heavy drinking is fueling a hidden crisis affecting millions of women and children worldwide. The harms, from violence to financial instability, are especially severe where gender inequality is high. Experts warn that alcohol policies must include gender-responsive strategies to protect vulnerable families. They call for reforms combining regulation, prevention, and community action.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15171489/two-men-arrested-hackers-stole-pictures-addresses-8000-children-nursery.html
Two men are arrested after hackers stole pictures, names and addresses of …

Two men are arrested after hackers stole pictures, names and addresses of 8,000 children from nursery chain database
Met Police officers confirmed they had taken a 17-year-old and 22-year-old into custody where they remain for questioning.

Two men are snuggling in the back of the presidential limousine. One is a convicted felon and the other is under an international arrest warrant for unlawful deportation and transfer of children to a foreign country. Guess which is which?

Last Sunday I also went to the Ellis Hollow Fair which had a huge crowd
#photo #photography #ellishollow

I'm tired of hearing about the bodies of those Israeli hostages who died and haven't been returned. It is a devastated war zone and no doubt many died in the bombing. Hardly surprising if they can't all be found now. I'd like to see the same concern for the remains of all those Palestinian children, women and men who were killed by Israel and who lie under tons of rubble. Their families won't be able to retrieve their remains.
It's a tragedy for all but let's…

I just re-watched The Amazing Maurice with my children (who loved it, yays!) and I have two comments:
1. I would be VERY happy with a Narrativia-led adaptation of the Wee Free Men
2. The Rat King is (algo-driven) social media.
#GNUTerryPratchett

Dan Jones is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains
after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid
led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building.
🔥Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight,
🆘 pulling men, women and children from their apartments,
some of them naked, residents and witnesses said.
❌Agents ap…

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.