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  Re: Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

  Games Realism, broken down

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  Diana Pozo UC Santa Barbara

  Wednesday, November 12, 2014 — 4:00 am

  re-imagine it in a new way, possibly in the interest of your own personal growth. Not all source texts can ...
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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games

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  Kishonna Gray Eastern Kentucky University

  November 12, 2014

  15 comments

  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games whiteness video games racism blackness Curator's Note The purpose of this discussion is to examine how the normalization of Whiteness and masculinity within video games leads ...
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  Re: Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

  Realism is an aesthetic

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  Diana Pozo UC Santa Barbara

  Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 10:23 pm

  a useful concept for thinking about the possibilities "realism" provides, because through ...
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  Re: Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

  realistic representations

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  Amanda Phillips University of California, Davis

  Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 9:30 pm

  "Realism" can be a political necessity- when we mean that we want a broader depiction of life possibilities ... lives and queer possibilities rarely fall into what many would recognize as "real" identities, ...
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  Re: Crashing GamerGate

  my students watched

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  Kishonna Gray Eastern Kentucky University

  Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 4:36 pm

  I thought the CJ students would side with this woman but they all emphatically agreed that this woman had no ...
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  Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

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  Diana Pozo UC Santa Barbara

  November 11, 2014

  6 comments

  Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism video games video game studies trauma small games realism queerness and games conference queer lives queer games movement queer qgcon LGBTQ Indie Game Developers indie identity performance glitch aesthetic ...
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  Re: Crashing GamerGate

  #gamergate, moms, and intergenerational conflict

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  Diana Pozo UCSB Film and Media Studies

  Monday, November 10, 2014 — 10:07 pm

  controversy that highlights the presence of self-identified feminists on both sides. The malleability of ...
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  Crashing GamerGate

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  November 10, 2014

  12 comments

  GamerGate in order to trumpet “equity feminism” by simplifying positions on both sides of the controversy, ...
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  Re: Democracy Play: VOTE!!!

  In-game possibilities

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  Danielle Leek Grand Valley State University

  Saturday, November 8, 2014 — 5:58 pm

  Alan~your suggestions are entirely on-point, and speak to precisely the kind of possibilities that ... candidate messages and strategies? The possibilities really are endless. ...
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  Re: Democracy Play: VOTE!!!

  Danielle, thank you for this

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  Alan Chu University of Arizona

  Thursday, November 6, 2014 — 9:37 pm

  possibilities. ...

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