Category Archives: Words from our Ed

Geek Girl on the Street joins the Geek Girls Network

Hello all! Exciting news: Geek Girl on the Street has joined forces with the Geek Girls Network (run by the fabulous Kristin Rielly.) As of today, GGotS is beginning the process of rolling our content into the GGN’s data feed. … Continue reading

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Shows You Should See: Superheroes Icons & Origins at Pittsburgh’s ToonSeum

By Kate Kotler In all of the United States, there are only three museums dedicated to showcasing and preserving cartoon and comic artwork: In New York there is the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art – in San Francisco we … Continue reading

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Welcome our n00b contributors to Geek Girl on the Street!

This site is lucky enough to have a bunch of dedicated and enthusiastic writers, photographers and videographers working on making it the very best it can be.  In the past few weeks we’ve been lucky enough to add some new … Continue reading

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We’ll be back Feburary 1, 2011

Hey Geek Girls!  The site is undergoing a lot of transition right now and we’ll be relaunching Geek Girl on the Street February 1, 2011 with a new Managing Editor, a new interface and some other shiny things.  Thanks for … Continue reading

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Support Katie! Chicago geek girl gets bullied for carrying Star Wars water bottle!!!

A quick post: In addition to running this site and FilmCatcher.com, I also write for the ChicagoNow blog network.  Today I was alerted to a post about a first grader in Evanston, Il. (who is the daughter of another ChicagoNow … Continue reading

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GGotS Rant: Learning to love your body

By Kate Kotler I’ve been thinking a lot about the topic of “body image” recently.  I started ruminating on this topic a few weeks ago when some loser of a troll surfed over to my personal website and left me … Continue reading

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The What Would Wonder Woman Do pins are HERE!

That’s right folks!  The WWWD? buttons by Snarky Mc F*Buttons have arrived to the Geek Girl on the Street headquarters.  And, are they cool? YES they are super-duper cool! Lucky you if you’re one of the 15 people who’ve already … Continue reading

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Big News Friday: Announcing the GGotS podcast with Dale Radio star, Dale Seever

What’s up Geek Girls and FanBoyz?  I’m truly excited to announce today that Geek Girl on the Street has partnered with entertainer, Dale Seever to launch a monthly GGotS podcast! Dale is is the host of the whiskey-fueled podcast, Dale … Continue reading

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Buy a “What Would Wonder Woman Do?” button, support the Chicago CAWC!

In celebration of the fifth annual Wonder Woman Day, GGotS has partnered with our pal Christopher Palmer of Snarky McF-buttons/Buttons to the People (the guy who made the AWESOME “Got Geek?” buttons many of you devoted readers sport.)  Chris has … Continue reading

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We’ll be back in full forces next week!

Hey Geeky peeps! We’ve been a little lax on posting last week and this week.  With Editor Kate trying to get a handle on her super new and cool DIY Diva blog over on Chicago Now and Contributing Editor Candice … Continue reading

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