G33K Out, episode 31

G33K Out: Geek Girls Part 1 — Supriya Limaye

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Episode 31: Geek Girls Part 1 — Supriya Limaye

If you’ve read my “About the Blog” page or know the origin of this podcast, you know that the G33K Out podcast came about as an offshoot of my master’s thesis I completed back in 2014. I set out to cover the world of geek culture from every perspective.

But as I also wrote in my thesis, identifying as a woman in the geek / nerd world can sometimes have its negatives. Cries of ‘fake geek girl’ were rampant when geek media first started becoming mainstream, and issues like Gamergate and the attacks on Anita Sarkeesian showed that if you identified as a woman and wanted to cover geek culture, you pretty much had to expect doxing, rape threats, and trolling beyond the pale.

So, since I had also started getting into audio (and podcasts) in 2014, I decided I wanted to start a series of interviews with women in the community to discuss what it was like.

I did three interviews back in 2014. Unfortunately, life hit me pretty hard then, and I never got around to editing those podcasts.

Thankfully, life started to smooth out a bit earlier this year, and now that I started focusing on the G33K Out podcast more, I realized I still wanted to do this series. So I emailed my three interview subjects from 2014: I asked if they were still willing to be used for this project, and whether they wanted to re-do the interview since it’s been a few years. One wanted a complete redo, one wanted to do one where we used some of the audio from 2014 but did an ‘updated’ segment as well, and one was fine using the audio from 2014.

That third interview was with Supriya Limaye.

Supriya and I met, as mentioned in the interview, thanks to a Facebook Sherlock fan group for those in Southern California. At the time, she worked for Geek and Sundry, although now she works for DeviantArt. Originally from the Silicon Valley area, she moved to Los Angeles to look for work. We talk Harry Potter, Reddit, and other topics.

Supriya Limaye, showing off her 'book' table.
Supriya Limaye, showing off her ‘book’ table. Photo by Angie Fiedler Sutton.

Basic show notes:

And now, it’s time to geek out.

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