An Open Letter to Kotaku’s Joel Johnson
I remember the post that made me unsubscribe from Kotaku, before the good stuff started to roll in. Another gallery of naked women covered in video game accessories. It wasn’t because that post was SO...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Feel Welcome at Kotaku
I'm part of the gaming community, but Kotaku doesn't see me as a gamer. No, instead I'm a multi-racial transgender who-knows-sexual possibly-feminist woman gamer.
View ArticleThe Type of Woman I Want Others to See: Why I Wore Heels to PAX East
There’s two sides to these mass gathering of gaming folk, one being that I can talk with anyone about my interests, but I must also appear professional at all times. An unfortunate part about being a...
View ArticleStand up for yourself – Concerned victim blaming
We need to talk about victim blaming. It comes in many forms and appears very often whenever minorities speak about experiencing discrimination.
View ArticleThe State of Diversity Criticism and “do your fuckin’ research”
The loudest social justice members, apparently, are histrionic, irrational, and polemic in their efforts to discuss diversity issues within this great art form.
View ArticlePay Up – You are What You’re Worth
The worth of my writing and advocacy is constantly augmented by my relationship to money. In order to keep up with critical conversation, I must constantly buy games. And not the cheaper ones, but the...
View ArticleTake us seriously, but please, none of that highbrow shit
The gaming community, or let’s say the ones with voices- popular developers, media, and maybe celebrities if we have those- have a cake eating problem. We want to be taken seriously as an artform but...
View ArticleTake Me Personally, Babe
I’m going to write about my personal experience writing about personal experience.
View ArticleIz Gamez Criticizm Art???
To start off, I am always going to answer ‘Is X Y?’ with ‘sure.’ Mostly, I see something like art as a lens or perspective; you can see something as art, and bring in what you understand of that to...
View ArticleThe Meritocracy of Video Games
Game design is political. Not just the field (that’s another minefield to go through), but the designs that makes up each game.
View ArticleOn Anger
This new year, I made a resolution to be critical without the negativity. I brought a lot of my negative feelings to social media, completely valid negative feelings, that set a tone for people to...
View ArticleOur Flappy Dystopia
I’m going to get right to it: any critique or reporting on games that doesn’t include an intersectional perspective on the presence capitalism in games is incomplete.
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