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• In Media Res
  Re: #My(Darling)Clementine: Keeping girlhood innocence from being ‘lost and gone forever’ in Telltale’s The Walking Dead games

  Playing innocent

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  Jessica Aldred Université de Montréal

  Saturday, November 15, 2014 — 10:15 pm

  Matt, your observations of the differences between Carl of the show and Carl of the comics are spot on and I'd love to see (or do) a cross-media comparison of both versions of Carl in relation to Clementine. (I'm especially interested in how eac ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism

  Playing Curtain

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  Jessica Aldred Université de Montréal

  Thursday, November 13, 2014 — 3:24 pm

  Diana, my apologies for a delayed response, but I wanted to take some time to play Curtain (which, along with Coming Out Simulator 2014, will be added to my Gender and Gaming syllabus for next term for the weeks on games and queer identity- so thank you f ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Crashing GamerGate

  Retrogaming feminism

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  Jessica Aldred Université de Montréal

  Monday, November 10, 2014 — 9:15 pm

  "She reifies gender essentialism in order to argue for the protection of the status quo, and she reframes calls for inclusivity and diversity as the hysterics of “gender activists” hell bent on the destruction of heterosexual male culture. It’s a ret ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games

  Post-racial utopias/post-apocalyptic dystopias

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  Jessica Aldred Université de Montréal

  Thursday, November 13, 2014 — 12:48 pm

  Many thanks, Kishonna, for this thought-provoking post, and many thanks, John, for such salient examples of the post-apocalyptic lengths triple-A games seem to feel compelled to go to in order to accommodate more complex depictions of blackness (the irony ...