Queerness in Video Games
January 3, 2019 9:04 AM   Subscribe

Game Studies, Issue 18/03. "The place where queerness meets games is a site of radical potential. This introduction, and this issue, ask how we can push queer game studies beyond desires for inclusion and representation and instead embrace a queer tradition of rejecting the status quo."
posted by seanmpuckett (5 comments total) 27 users marked this as a favorite
 
This is really cool, haven't had time to read yet, but favouriting for later. Thanks for sharing this.
posted by Fizz at 9:58 AM on January 3, 2019


this is very much in my wheelhouse. Thsnks OP for creating he post.
posted by Faintdreams at 11:15 AM on January 3, 2019


It's amazing how so many of the most interesting voices writing and designing games right now are queer and/or trans.
posted by JHarris at 2:18 PM on January 3, 2019 [2 favorites]


E.g. One of the dozen articles is "Time and Reparative Game Design: Queerness, Disability, and Affect
"This paper intermixes theories of queer time with crip time to detail possible approaches to a queer, accessible art practice that takes seriously social inequalities yet moves towards healing. "

Wow. Deep-diving.

'Crip time' ?
"Queer time intersects with crip time, the relationship of labour, capitalism, and disability. In Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer argues for an intersectional and coalition-based politic, utilizing notions of queer time to conceive of crip time, and their differences and similarities...."
posted by Twang at 2:57 PM on January 3, 2019


Oh, very cool.
posted by cortex at 10:13 PM on January 3, 2019


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