Hiding fandom in the underwear drawer since 1977

I've been gnashing my fandom fen teeth lately because the excellent discussion in the Star Wars EU fandom about the poor development of compelling female characters then led to the deeply discouraging but usual, "what's it to you since Star Wars is all for guys, right?"  Credit to people like duncatra webmistress at Club Jade for mustering a better response that I could manage which you can read about  here.  As Nancipants, Eliz, and others have been saying so eloquently, why are we still discussing this in 2012?  Sigh. 

So when I followed the wonderful Mary Sue to a PBS Off Book production on fan art and fan fic I got really, really irritated as apparently only dudes create fan art and write fan fic as they are the only ones featured in the vid.  The Mary Sue post is here. Now, we learn in the comments to that entry that Lisa Romagnoli, an assistant producer for PBS' Off Book, is looking to rectify the mistake.  She writes:

Hi! I'm the assistant producer for PBS Off Book. Thank you for the post. We are so excited to be on The Mary Sue! The lack of women in the episode has gotten a lot of attention, and I just wanted to say that it was a completely unintentional omission. We are sorry! Because of all the feedback, we're planning an addendum episode to feature female fan artists, so if you have suggestions of female artists that are NYC-based, please send them our way!

In response to another comment Ms. Romagnoli provides her email address:  lisa@kornhaberbrown.com
So, have it New York-based artists and writers!

I'll just delete right now my ranty rant about how marginalization of women seems to be the flavor of the day. I'm really pleased that PBS is responding to this really stupendous omission and reaching out to the ones who really do generate most of the fan fic and art content and maintain the communities that keep these things alive and culturally relevant.