BadRep Towers is home to quite a few people – we are a close-knit team, and we can still fit round a large table in the pub, but we’ve expanded to roughly double the size we were when we started. (We absorb awesome people. Like a really energetic sponge. But not like the Borg. That would be a PR fail for feminism.)<\/p>\n
HERE IS THE ROLL CALL ANYWAY<\/p>\n
TEAM BADREP, ASSEMBLE!<\/p>\n
Miranda started BadRep up in the summer of 2010 after taking refuge from the heatwave in the local pub, running into some future team members and excitedly blurting about blogs at them from somewhere under her fringe. Happily, everyone she pestered was interested. She is fond of boxing, Joan Jett, spending too much of her salary on music, and the overuse of her caps lock key.<\/p>\n
The First Mate of the Bad Ship Reputation, Sarah J is a shameless introvert cursed with an interest in people. Aged nine, she took on a school bully and was awarded a medal (a 10p piece sellotaped to a bit of string) by her classmates. She\u2019s never looked back in the fight for what\u2019s right, and now works in charity communications making the world a better place one email at a time. She\u2019s on a lifelong quest for genderjustice, and enjoys writing about robots, the uncanny, indiepop, comics, cities, forests, and fairytales.<\/p>\n
Hannah is a writer\/performance poet who runs the Whippersnapper Press<\/strong><\/a>, a web-publishing site for
short, innovative and funny creative writing. She seeks out
interesting, left-leaning, smartass company like a heat-seeking
missile and dips her toes into various ponds, including comedy,
activism, and being a zombie. Her turn-ons include moss, handicrafts
and bohemian clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
Eb Snare is a full time writer who also writes freelance, makes
and sells her own jewellery, drinks, smokes and listens almost
exclusively to 80s electropop music. She completed her Masters
in 2011, with a dissertation on fashion blogging as a
contemporary labour form that included some sweet diagrams. Her
blog, The Magic Square Foundation<\/strong><\/a>, covers fashion,
culture and general life, or you can talk to her on Twitter:
@ebsnare<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Hodge is a tea-drinking Cure fan with tangled hair and a
penchant for long words, who may also have been a
damn fine cat<\/a> in a previous life. Among other fine
accomplishments, she wrote and illustrated The Alphabet of Feminism<\/strong><\/a>, bringing a
touch of lexical class to our motley ranks.<\/p>\n
Jem is an academic who works on theatre and
performance. A longtime BadRep reader, he’s
very excited to be on the other side of the line,
and the references to gin and tea in the other
team bios make him feel very at home. Four years
working on
The Duchess of Malfi<\/strong> has given him a
taste for writing about other things, so he
blogs on culture, politics and gender at Quite Irregular<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Markgraf is a strange, twisted little chap
who lives on a diet of roleplaying games
and celluloid. He collects
esoterically-named perfumes, loose-leaf
teas and trousers, and enjoys long walks
on the beach and watching the sunset, as
long as the beach contains at least three
Leviathans and the sunset EXPLODES.<\/p>\n
MiaVee is not well-versed in the art of
pithy, humorous biography. Mid twenties,
half Welsh, half Italian, all Yorkshire
and currently dwelling in the NW London
outlands, the Mia can be identified by
the constant stream of ABBA music that
follows her everywhere. Subjects dear to
Mia’s heart are mental illness,
queerness, videogames, body positivity,
SCIENCE (both Aperture and regular),
fangirling and keeping all the lovely
little birdies in her back garden fed.
She is at least fifteen years too old to
love My Little Pony as much as she does.
When not videogaming she enters a
trance-like state in order to absorb
horror and comedy entertainment by
osmosis. Her favourite colour is
glitter.<\/p>\n
Rai is our main gaming correspondent
\u2013 running our Gamer
Diary<\/a> feature among other kickass
stuff \u2013 and at the tender age of
24 has been gaming for 16 years and
writing for 11 \u2013 perfect combo!
Rai spends considerable time
undertaking culinary experiments,
wishing for the ability to paint and
trying to raise awareness of mental
health issues. When not at BadRep, Rai
talks to the internet over at The Talking
Automaton<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Not to be confused with Rai
(above), Rei is a small but
strident university student who
is from London but primarily
based in Cambridgeshire, except
for when she lives in Japan. She
is reluctantly obsessed with
romance novels, and is starting
to think that it is they who are
addicted to her – for more
on that, check out her series Hopeless
Reimantic<\/strong><\/a>. She
also likes general reading,
general writing, martial arts
and acting in pantomimes. In
her spare time, she tries to
come up with things to do in
her spare time. She is often
spotted hanging around the
tea-and-coffee-making
facilities, looking
impatient.<\/p>\n
Rhian is a
neo-bluestocking escapee
of the south Welsh
valleys. When not scraping
a living selling books in
Soho, she writes on music,
history, politics and the
places where they
intersect. Her own blog
can be found at
Velvet
Coalmine.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Sarah C is a theatre
practitioner and
events manager with
a background in
english literature,
feminist theory,
corporate marketing
and IT. If that
hasn’t put you
off, she’s
also northern and a
comic-reading,
dice-rolling nerd.
She wishes this bio
sounded less like a
lonely hearts
column, but either
way she is very fond
of gin. She is also
the coordinating
captain of our Found
Feminism<\/strong><\/a>
feature.<\/p>\n
Stephen is a
white
mid-thirties
cis male, and
is therefore
the natural
choice to blog
about
feminism.<\/p>\n
He hopes
you’ll
be
gentle.<\/p>\n
Vik is a
perpetually
exasperated
charity
worker (and
petrolhead),
saving the
world (and
building
engines) one
blog post at
a
time.<\/p>\n
Dave
describes
himself as
a
feminist,
sysadmin,
freelance
photographer,
Rubyist,
caffeine
monster,
CFS\/ME
sufferer,
and
unapologetic
pervert.
He also
happens to
enjoy
pressing
buttons on
keyboards
to make
words come
out.
Sometimes,
people
like to
read those
words.
When that
happens,
it makes
him
happy.<\/p>\n
He blogs
about
nerdery,
caffeine,
politics,
and both
kinky and
vanilla
sex-positivism,
on
blog.dave.io<\/a><\/strong>.
He also
Tumbls
(is that
a verb
now?) at
tumblr.dave.io<\/a><\/strong>.
You
can
yell
at him
on
Twitter
or
App.net,
as
@syn<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n
These
guys
don’t
post
regularly
at
the
mo,
but
they’ve
made
a
big
contribution.<\/p>\n
Jenni
lived
with
Miranda
a
year
or
so
ago.
This
was
useful,
because
Miranda
was
able
to
steal
all
her
comics
on
a
regular
basis.
(A
more
difficult
task
was
getting
them
back
once
stolen.)
One
of
the
original
six
people
from
the
early
days
of
BadRep
Towers,
Jen
edits
science
fiction
and
fantasy
novels
for
a
living,
and
may
lay
claim
to
the
title
“she
who
first
prodded
Miranda
into
reading
more
feminist
blogs
in
the
first
place”.<\/p>\n
Rob
is
obsessed
with
books,
research,
and
learning
new
things.
He
usually
inflicts
his
latest
learning
on
anyone
who’ll
stand
still
long
enough
to
listen.
Among
other
things,
he
is
chiefly
responsible
for
the
Unsung
Heroes<\/strong><\/a>
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EB Snare<\/h3>\n
Hodge\/Kirsty<\/h3>\n
Jem Bloomfield<\/h3>\n
Markgraf<\/h3>\n
MiaVee<\/h3>\n
Rai<\/h3>\n
Rei Hab<\/h3>\n
Rhian E Jones<\/h3>\n
Sarah Cook<\/h3>\n
Stephen
B<\/h3>\n
Viktoriya<\/h3>\n
Dave<\/h3>\n
Alumni<\/h2>\n
Jenni<\/h3>\n
Rob
Mulligan<\/h3>\n