Ideas Festival Debate and Office For Women

For those of you who are interested in spending your weekend thinking about women’s body sizes and whether the future of media, virtualization and more can influence body shape, you might want to check out the Ideas Festival Debate. I’ve listed the...

Ideas Festival 2009 Brisbane – Guest Speaker

Well, the details are up on the QLD Office for Women website about the Ideas Festival in Brisbane. I’m going to be talking there as part of a panel discussion on a topic entitled ‘Beyond Size 0: Is Anything Real?’. It’ll be looking at the...

Virtualization and Avatar Use

That’s me… well, a virtual representation of me. I was recently discussing with a friend the use of avatars in online worlds and how you’re in many cases only allowed to slide the weight slider so far. You can be extremely skinny, but generally not...