Tag: spelfeminism

F.A.T.A.L. and norms

A purple bag with dice spilling out of it.

Some time ago, I made the enormous mistake of downloading F.A.T.A.L. as a PDF. To be honest I was curious about this, according to many, abominable role-playing game. A role-playing game that the creators themselves call the most difficult, detailed, realistic and historically/ mythically accurate role-playing game available. F.A.T.A.L. has been named the worst role-playing... Continue Reading →

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Why can’t I play?

Inspired both by a thread at a role-playing forum and by an event that took place at work yesterday (which I unfortunately can't repeat here), I thought I'd pose some questions regarding game development and why the ever present average white heterosexual male gamer is so terrified to share screen time and text space with... Continue Reading →

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#1reasonwhy

an image showing two controllers, and superimposed the icon of feminism, a closed fist in a symbol for woman.

Yesterday, my twitter exploded with the hashtag #1reasonwhy. The origins was Luke Crane asking why there were so few women in game development. As any one of you know who have followed my blog for a while, this is a topic that is very close to my heart. I've tried to get more women into... Continue Reading →

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Implicit and Explicit sexism

I've done some reading lately in order to continue my blog series Wham, bam, thank you ma'am and the one thing I notice is the incredible difference between overt and covert sexism, and how much easier it is to handle the explicit sexism compared to the sexism that happen almost when you aren't looking. The... Continue Reading →

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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Work It Harder Make It Better Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger More Than Ever Hour After Our Work Is Never Over - Daft Punk, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger There’s this thing. It’s called feminism, and it has to do with the radical notion that women are people. I’m a feminist and I’m working in... Continue Reading →

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Del 2: Wham, bam, thank you ma’am

Det här är del två i min bloggserie "Wham, bam, thank you ma'am" och den här gången handlar det om handlingsutrymme. Vi är nämligen mer än bara siffror, vi människor. Vi måste få agera också, och sätten vi får agera på färgar vår upplevelse av något. Om du till exempel bara fick vara en viss... Continue Reading →

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