fortis
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Hi, long time lurker, recent poster.
Just thought I'd throw this up here to let the larger community know. I've just copy pasted from what I put up on facebook. Some of you may know Delaney King from either the worlds of computer game character design or miniatures painting. In particular some of the older posts about what she experienced at one of her first nerd outlets being the oldhammer facebook group are pretty reprehensible and remind us just how badly we do as a nerd culture in including women and trans people in our community, which at the end of the day is a group of mostly men who have experienced exclusion and ridicule at some point in our lives (I've yet to meet a nerd who hasn't). Read, think, discuss, share:
Delaney King is a Trans Woman who is also a well respected miniature painter, sculptor and works in computer graphics making some truly amazing models and designs (from quite a few big titles including Dragonage: Origins, Civ 4, LOTR Online). She has worked on developing computer model design coursework in this country in an attempt to raise the profile of Australian computer game design and appeared on industry panels at conferences.
This year she began transitioning, which together with it came a wave of transphobia from the nerd and geek community which is unacceptable in this era. She is now resettled in Melbourne after moving from Canberra for work and split from her partner and <1 year old child who remain in Canberra.
She now finds herself struggling to stay afloat as described in her post. If this White Ribbon day has you thinking about disadvantage and institutional discrimination then spare a thought or a few pennies for Delaney who is asking for donations to help her get on her feet in a new city. Share out to the wider nerd network if you can.
Delaney has chronicled her beginning stages of transitioning, separating with her partner and relocating to a new city together with some of the transphobia she has encountered. Her blog over the last year has been an interesting read if this is something you haven't known within your circles.
http://kingsminis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/1 ... -feet.html
Just thought I'd throw this up here to let the larger community know. I've just copy pasted from what I put up on facebook. Some of you may know Delaney King from either the worlds of computer game character design or miniatures painting. In particular some of the older posts about what she experienced at one of her first nerd outlets being the oldhammer facebook group are pretty reprehensible and remind us just how badly we do as a nerd culture in including women and trans people in our community, which at the end of the day is a group of mostly men who have experienced exclusion and ridicule at some point in our lives (I've yet to meet a nerd who hasn't). Read, think, discuss, share:
Delaney King is a Trans Woman who is also a well respected miniature painter, sculptor and works in computer graphics making some truly amazing models and designs (from quite a few big titles including Dragonage: Origins, Civ 4, LOTR Online). She has worked on developing computer model design coursework in this country in an attempt to raise the profile of Australian computer game design and appeared on industry panels at conferences.
This year she began transitioning, which together with it came a wave of transphobia from the nerd and geek community which is unacceptable in this era. She is now resettled in Melbourne after moving from Canberra for work and split from her partner and <1 year old child who remain in Canberra.
She now finds herself struggling to stay afloat as described in her post. If this White Ribbon day has you thinking about disadvantage and institutional discrimination then spare a thought or a few pennies for Delaney who is asking for donations to help her get on her feet in a new city. Share out to the wider nerd network if you can.
Delaney has chronicled her beginning stages of transitioning, separating with her partner and relocating to a new city together with some of the transphobia she has encountered. Her blog over the last year has been an interesting read if this is something you haven't known within your circles.
http://kingsminis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/1 ... -feet.html
