If there is one particularly awkward conversation in media critique, I would give the award to discussion surrounding the sexual interests of women, and tangentially, anyone attracted to men. Codified on the ‘obviously bad’ platform of media activism, the objectification and sexualization of women calls into question the pervasiveness of pandering to men’s interests by […]
Tag Archives: Media
Trying to Unpack Victimhood
I admit, this is just me venting. Writing to get money, slowly but surely trying to piece my life back together.
Our House
Get to know us as people, as comrades, and I think we can change things, together, with our powers combined.
More Than My Pain
I am more than my pain. I am more than my pain. I am more than my pain.
Our 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.
On 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 interact with me.
The 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.
End the Video Supremacy of Games
What does it mean when critics and creators can’t afford to keep up with the tech race?
Take Me Personally, Babe
I’m going to write about my personal experience writing about personal experience.
Take 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 don’t often value critical analysis.
Pay 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 sixty dollar hits that many of my peers get for free.
Something tells me you’re offended that I’m offended.
The latest iteration, in response to being offensive, is often a cry out against sensitivity and censorship, that offended parties want a dictatorship with thought police.
The 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.
The 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 professional who is transgender is to be convincing.
Why 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.