A Prisoner of the Abject

Sarah Kerrigan's Transformations throughout StarCraft. I want to preface this blog post with two things. 1. I'm only looking at Kerrigan through the games, not any of the surrounding media. 2. I'm probably wrong about all of this, so don't get too upset about anything I say. I've borrowed the title of this post from... Continue Reading →

Retention is only part of the puzzle

In Gamasutra there's an excellent article by the Pixelles describing the seven primary reasons why women leave the games industry. In it, the Pixelles make the case for what we can do to retain women in the industry, and I agree with all of it. I do believe - and I'm sure the Pixelles are... Continue Reading →

Queer readings of Video Games

This isn't actually something I've done, but ever since I read up on gender studies in literature and came across the idea of queer readings or the queering of a text, it's something I'd like to do someday. I think there's a cornucopia of homoerotic games out there, just waiting to be discovered by someone... Continue Reading →

A Fragile State

Links have now been added, see bottom of post. Honestly, I didn’t know what to name this blog post, so a fragile state it is. What I’m talking about is of course my own experiences in the gaming industry, both past and present, and a hypothesis I’ve formed around the idea of creativity, who gets... Continue Reading →

Post GamerGate

This is a new decade (well, technically, it's not really a new decade until 2021, but who's counting) and there are a bunch of retrospectives out there. This is... maybe not so much a retrospective as a reflection. If existing in the gaming culture has taught me one thing it's that we tend to forget... Continue Reading →

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