As part of the harassment of Feminist Frequency‘s Anita Sarkeesian, a guy from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario made a “game” where players could punch her. The Internet found the game’s designer and people talked to him on Twitter. Storify has more as does Gameranx. And She Was Disclaiming […]
Feminist Frequency‘s Anita Sarkeesian set up a Kickstarter for her project, “Women vs. Video Game Tropes” and received a hateful response. Rock Paper Shotgun, The Escapist and Think Progress have more. The Mary-Sue theorizes on what can be done. Jezebel and Slate have pieces on how depressingly common […]
Writers Joe Lansdale and Andrew Vachss have a conversation about their books Edge of Dark Water and That’s How I Roll, the power of books, the importance of libraries and librarians, publishing as a fixed fight and a helluva lot more. Part one and part two.
Dr. NerdLove finds once again that he must put aside the charming daily business of helping nerds find love and return again to “Nerds and Male Privilege” in the context of a recent egregious example of sexual harassment in gaming.
Game writer Jennifer Hepler said some things in an interview 5 years ago that she’s being harassed over now. Susana Polo writes about what she thinks Hepler’s story is all about: “This intimidation in regards to inclusion (of easier play modes, setting aside the inclusion of characters who […]
Liv Strömquist’s heartbreaking comic about Whitney Houston and domestic abuse.
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