Årets spelare 2017

När jag började spela rollspel i mitten på 80-talet förväntade jag mig inte att det skulle bli en så integrerad del av min identitet. Jag förväntade mig heller inte att jag skulle bygga en karriär på min kärlek till spel. Inte heller förväntade jag mig att jag skulle bli så pass engagerad att jag ställde... Continue Reading →

Toxic Gaming Culture

I’m sure that some of you, maybe even most of you, have seen the continued faux pas from notable (and unfortunately Swedish) gaming personalities such as Markus Persson and Felix Kjellgren, a.k.a. Notch and PewDiePie lately. Notch more or less abandoning any pretenses at being anything but a bored and kind of lonely guy in... Continue Reading →

Achievement Unlocked!

I've been quoted in a Master's thesis. Or rather this blog has. Scoot on over to Frida Markendahl's Making (a) difference in games Feminist game creation and other interferences with the Swedish video game industry’s reproduction of gendered sameness and read my wise words. I sound really smart when she quotes me! I have a... Continue Reading →

Diversity Dungeons – Part 3

The Politics and Misconceptions of Gender One of the problems with Desborough's text is that it presupposes through implications. At the start of the chapter on gender, Desborough states that wanting to make games more inclusive when it comes to gender comes at a cost. It's as if Desborough is arguing that the lack of... Continue Reading →

Tilldelat utrymme

Jag blev helt fascinerad av en tråd som startades i rollspelsforumet rollspel.nu igår, svensk tid. Tråden är behjärtansvärd, det finns ett syfte med den som är berömvärt och ändå slås jag - som jag skriver i mitt svar (det enda svaret i skrivande stund) - av att för att få utrymme inom mansdominerade utrymmen så... Continue Reading →

Diversity Dungeons – Part 2

Ethnicity in RPGs This is the second part in my series dedicated to reading and rebutting the booklet Diversity Dungeons and in this blog post, I'll be looking at ethnicity. This is a somewhat skewed and queer reading of the text. I also want to point out that I am not a person of color.... Continue Reading →

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