Note: I will be using the term "woman" a lot in this post, in part because articles and research tend to use a gender binary. I do however recognise that the biases women face are biases all marginalised groups face in equal or greater measure. Stop me if you've heard this before: "Yeah, he's an... Continue Reading →
Ugh, Emotions: Part IV
CW: harassment, gaslighting, suicidal thoughts By necessity and signed paperwork, I’m keeping it vague. It's also in the past. I'm posting it because I have this idea that we need to show that negative behaviour doesn't have to be sexual. I also want to point out that my experiences may well have been a one... Continue Reading →
Ugh, Emotions: Part III
This post is a bit of an interlude where I talk about the difficulties marginalised groups have in getting hired, it’s also about being a victim, but refusing to be victimised. And it’s a "glorious" CV because I just know that some of you readers have started wondering if I’m really that good at my... Continue Reading →
Ugh, Emotions: Part I
CW: Harassment, exclusion. This is a difficult set of posts for me to write, because they admit to my own complicity in a culture I desperately want to change. To understand gaming, the games industry and the gaming culture it’s necessary to understand some of the backstory of the nerd culture. We’ve been considered underdogs... Continue Reading →
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept
The title for this post was something Lt. General Dave Morrison of the Australian army said in a speech to the Australian troops after allegations of sexual misconduct among the Australian troops. It’s oddly fitting for what I am about to write about. This post has been sitting around in my notebook for quite some... Continue Reading →
Critique needs to come from a place of knowledge
I think the thing that was most outrageous to me during GamerGate - in some ways regardless of what people actually thought about the GamerGate "movement" was the unwillingness or inability to even try to find out the facts. The same videos were regurgitated on the GamerGate side, none of them with a shred of... Continue Reading →