I talk about three games I played in 2014: The Last of Us/The Last of Us: Left Behind, Gone Home, and Fantasy Life.
Category: Culture
Speaking at Emerald City Comicon 2013
I will be speaking on a panel at Emerald City Comicon, which is taking place in Seattle from 1 – 3 March: Looking Past the Target Audience: Gender, Race, and Geek Identity Politics Sunday, March 3 Room: 2AB Start: 1:00 PM End: 1:55 PM This year, the geek community’s strained relationship with diversity came to a head. Conflicts over exclusion, and…
Speaking at GeekGirlCon 2012
I’ll be speaking on a panel at GeekGirlCon in Seattle, taking place from 11- 12 August: Saturday, 11 August 2012, 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM “Go Make Me A Sandwich”: Barriers to Women’s Participation in Online and Fan Spaces – RM301/302 How many times have you read “get back in the kitchen” or “go make me a sandwich” in comments on a YouTube…
Tropes vs. Women on the Internet: Having Opinions
One of the big pieces of news over the past few weeks has been the organized harassment campaign (trigger warning) against Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency. What she did wrong, according to the harassers, was to dare to put up a Kickstarter project to raise funds to create a series of web videos examining common stereotypcial female characters in videogames. She hasn’t…
Now Read This: Three Articles on Sexism and Games Culture
I read a lot of articles and blog posts about -isms (sexism, racism, etc.) and how they relate to videogames and the culture and community of gamers. Here are three articles I read over the past week that I found thoughtful, insightful, interesting, and which I think you should read, too. Each article discusses sexism at different levels. The first…