Complicating the Gaming Discourse

When it comes to issues of intersectionality in gaming, often the response is to only address the bare minimum in order to survive as a game, developer, or platform, then continue on. Unfortunately, when marginalized voices do speak, they often go unheard, or ignored. Given that the dominant faction of gaming communities in places like Twitch, […]

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The Feminization of the Support Role in Online Gaming

In team games where support play is essential, the stigmatism towards actually playing support raises issues of socialized anti-feminine thought in our society, as a major psychological link exists between the expectation of physical and emotional support and nurturing as a fundamental aspect of socialized femininity and the feminization of the support role in multiplayer online […]

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