It’s been nothing if not an interesting year. Here’s a selection from my blog over the past year to keep you entertained while you’re chilling out/avoiding your family on Boxing Day.
I did a few variations on the theme of colliding worlds – the intersection between feminism and digital rights. Ultimately, the message here is that we should all care about digital rights, and that we need a more diverse digital rights community.
When Worlds Collide: My original talk from ORGCon, aimed at the digital rights community.
Colliding Worlds: My talk at the Virtual Gender conference, aimed at a feminist audience.
I also spent a lot of time this year campaigning against internet censorship in the UK.
Porn Blocking – A Survivor’s Perspective: In which I talk about how none of David Cameron’s censorship measures would have prevented the abuse I experienced. (Trigger warning for discussion of child sexual abuse.)
Censored: In which I show how Cameron’s censorship measures would censor me speaking out against censorship.
Truthloader, where I appeared on a panel with Gail Dines, Peter Bradwell, Vivienne Pattison, Leigh Porter, and Jerry Barnett.
Open Letter to David Cameron on Web Filtering, co-signed by Brooke Magnanti, Laurie Penny, Zoe Margolis, Charles Stross, Jane Fae, Holly Combe, Jane Czyselska, and me.
I talked a lot about bisexuality, including spending a week curating the @TWkLGBTQ account on Twitter.
Index post for the @TWkLGBTQ week, which leads to posts on labels, coming out, stereotypes, bisexual role models in fiction and real life, and much more.
I also made a Biphobia Bingo card. It has generated some interesting insights in the last few months.
I was generally unimpressed with pop culture in various ways.
I wrote a series of posts introducing key feminist concepts in the context of pop culture. There is more to come in this, but for now, start here.
I got angry at Joss Whedon.
And I ventured, briefly, into writing fiction.
I talked, here an there, about immigration. Have you noticed how RomaniansandBulgarians appears to have become one word in the English language?
I explained how to talk to foreigners.
I created the Immigration Drinking Game – it comes with a serious health warning.
And I urged people to sign the Let Me Vote European Citizen’s Initiative. (Something which you still have a couple of weeks to do, incidentally.)
I wrote a few pieces for ORGZine including a review of Beeban Kidron’s documentary InRealLife, and a comment on Amazon’s latest attempt to cash in on fanfiction.
I also wrote a handy 5-step guide to being a great ally.
And last but not least, I remembered Maggie.
Here’s to 2014. May it let our voices be heard.