Queerness in Video Games

January 3, 2019 9:04 AM

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)

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