Cyber dykes R Us ⁄ VNS Matrix

The Australian cyberfeminist group VNS Matrix celebrates “all the chicks with attitude who are getting their hands dirty with digital technology.”

VNS Matrix’s game, All New Gen, features a heroine on a quest to sabotage the databanks of Big Daddy Mainframe. In the process, she must combat such adversaries as Circuit Boy (“a dangerous technobimbo”) while restoring levels of life-giving “slime” by bonding with “DNA sluts.”

Despite the dyke aesthetic of All New Gen with its shaven-headed cyberwomen, VNS Matrix is neither wholly lesbian nor anti-male: “We do like men,” they insist. “Some of us even have sex with them.”