Bonnie Ruberg is a freelance writer who specializes in sex, gender, video games, and tech culture. Though she has a degree in fiction from Bard College, these days she’s more of a journalist. She currently reports, blogs, translates, reviews, and columns (can she say that?) for publications like The Village Voice, The Economist, and Playboy. Don’t let the italics scare you though: she’s still a pretty goofy person. She’s also a dork. In fact, that’s how she makes a living.
Got that stalker itch? Check out Bonnie’s work-related photos here, her personal photos here, and her Twitter feed here. If you just want to cut to tales of her online sex life, she recommends going here. If tales of her online sex life make you want to have online sex with someone yourself, she recommends going here. If mentioning online sex makes you ponder internet culture, she recommends you go here. If pondering internet culture makes you hungry for cake — and why shouldn’t it? — she recommends you go here. Jeezie creezie, she never realized how many websites she had!
On the real-life front, Bonnie recently moved to San Francisco, where she proudly works from her living room and occasionally wanders out into her awesome new city to shake her fist at the weather gods. Why, oh why, must it always be foggy? Why, oh why, do seasons not exist on the West Coast? She spent the 2007/2008 school year teaching English to teenage hooligans in the south of France, where she made friends from across the world and succeeded in acquiring the tiniest bit of a tan. She’s originally from Philadelphia, though she went to school in New York, and she lived in Dublin at some point during these last twenty-three years, too. It’s all a bit of a blur.
In her spare time, Bonnie dreams about going back to school so she can spend more of her day — yes, more — sitting around and talking about the role of sex and gender in art. She hasn’t read a real book (Harry Potter en français so doesn’t count) in way too long, nor has she written fiction since… well, since she realized how much more she gets paid to write non-fiction. Both of those things make her sad, but then she remembers she resides in a town surrounded by water. Sorry, she forgot to mention: she really likes water. And Halloween. And blue candy. And caves. And she’s also getting married next June. And she has red hair. And… now she’s just procrastinating.
Bonnie Ruberg is a sex, technology, and video games writer with a hankering for cultural investigation. She can be reached at her first name AT heroine-sheik DOT com. Read more about her