Thanks to our partnership with Smith College, WBI is pleased to share that we have five interns this summer! Have you ever wondered how many minifig heads are female? And of those, how many are yellow? How many women of colour have been represented in minfig form? How many different… Continue reading
At the Holiday Ornament building meet-up in December we decided that we wanted to have some kind of group build presence at Bricks Cascade. The next thing we knew, Nyssa Rogers sent Alice an email with the Duck Build instructions attached. Our solution had been found! Immediately the word was… Continue reading
Another Bricks Cascade Women’s Brick Initiative workshop is in the bag! 25+attendees explored micro building, adding lights, creating new charms and talking all kinds of photography. Once again the three hours passed quickly as we shared information and made new connections. Before we broke into smaller groups Alice shared a… Continue reading
Periodically Richard Jones at The Rambling Brick takes an in-depth look at gender balance in LEGO City. We love his analysis so much we use Richards work in our WBI presentations! So when Richard reached out this week and told me he had updated his research in anticipation of International… Continue reading
Bricks Cascade is right around the corner and we are super excited to be debuting this years workshop theme – Lighting. Last year we introduced you to us and our areas of expertise. This year we are going to get down and dirty and learn a new skill – how… Continue reading
We’re super happy to show off our new, redesigned logos! These new logos, while similar to our earlier logo, differ slightly ago reflect our clarified mission. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do! We are preparing cool merchandise graced with these logos. Come find us at Bricks… Continue reading
The WBI would like to invite you to join us in a collaborative build for Bricks Cascade in Portland, Oregon, Feb 28th – March 1st. This is our first collaborative build and we want to make a splash! The Build One of the first and best known products released by… Continue reading
Last weekend all of us from the board of The Women’s Brick Initiative had a retreat. Alice, Shelly, Joyti, Megan, and myself discussed our plans for the coming year and our overall strategy for the future on how we can better support women in the LEGO community and provide a… Continue reading
Its time to wrap-up our first building competition: Better Together. When we announced our first contest back in early November our main goal was to engage our growing audience of women and allies and to give away some LEGO. We accomplished both of these goals. Honorable Mentions We received a… Continue reading
Recently we had our first in-person LUG meeting and it was awesome! Alice invited all the local members of the WBI to her house to make holiday ornaments out of LEGO bricks. Hanging out in a casual, relaxed atmosphere was a nice change of pace from the hub-bub of conventions.… Continue reading