So yeah, this post is going to be about voice. Voice has always been a huge issue with me. Not necessarily with how a voice sounds, but with the absence of voice and what that absence of voice actually means. It’s because of this that The Little Mermaid is one of my most hated Disney [...]
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She Has No Voice So I Must Scream: On Voice and Agency in Video Games
April 15th, 2013 
dr. b. 
Posted in Games and Rhetoric, Uncategorized 
Tags: cultural critique, diversity, feminism, gender, race 
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Down the Rabbit Hole: #1reasonwhy Women Aren’t In the Games Industry
January 23rd, 2013 dr. b. Sometimes my brain works much like the horrible Bing search engine commercial where people jump from tangential topic to tangential topic based on keywords and loose connections. Today’s post comes from just such an idea jump that I experienced today. It started when a student in my Gender and Technology seminar mentioned Phyllis Schlafly and [...]
Posted in Games and Rhetoric, Uncategorized Tags: feminism, game developers, sexism, women in games 2 Comments »
A Break in the Clouds, Progress in the Industry *Trigger Warning*
December 3rd, 2012 Nicole Marie Holy shit. Somebody listened. And it wasn’t just an indie game developer with nothing to lose, it was a big name AAA developer. Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez published an article yesterday (Nov. 30) on how the writers for Dragon Age 3 actually removed a portion of the game because of a group of women’s input. Apparently [...]
Posted in Games and Rhetoric, Miscellany, Uncategorized Tags: feminism, rape, women in games Comments Off
Episode 43: It’s All About Me: Narrative Modding, Feminism, and Games
October 3rd, 2012 dr. b. Episode 43: It’s All About Me: Narrative Modding, Feminism, and Games (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk about narrative spaces outside of games and how they can be feminist tools. Yeah, and there were pandas…lots of pandas. Links of Note: Get Halo 4 armor if you [...]
Episode 41: What It Means to Be a Female Gamer
August 30th, 2012 dr. b. Episode 41: What It Means to Be a Female Gamer (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we talk about what it means (to each of us) to be a woman gamer. The episode where we share a bit of what being gamers and women simultaneously means to us [...]
NYMG Playthrough #1: Lollipop Chainsaw
August 21st, 2012 dr. b. A while back we thought out loud about how much fun it would be to do a group play-through of a section of a game and just chat about it while it happened. And then Nicole moved away and things got a bit more tricky. Well, we finally finagled something and so we are bringing [...]
Episode 39: How Much Is That Booth Babe in the Window: Booth Babes, Feminism, and Context
July 31st, 2012 dr. b. Episode 39: How Much Is That Booth Babe in the Window: Booth Babes, Feminism, and Context (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we talk about booth babes in the larger context of feminism and sexism in the games industry. Confessions of a sometimes booth babe Man Declares Love [...]
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Episode 37: Whoa, V*gina!: Lollipop Chainsaw, Tomb Raider, and the Need for Sarkeesian’s Cultural Critique
June 25th, 2012 dr. b. Episode 37: “Whoa V*gina: Lollipop Chainsaw, Tomb Raider, and the Need for Sarkeesian’s Cultural Critique” (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) This week we segue from last week’s episode to this week’s by talking about rape imagery in the new Tomb Raider trailer, our playing of Lollipop Chainsaw, and Anita Sarkeesian’s [...]
Don’t Put That in Your Mouth!; Or, Mass Effect 3 and Prostibots
June 6th, 2012 dr. b. I am a mediocre Mass Effect fangirl at best. I quit the first game because the controls and the damned planet scanning were just too friggin’ painful. I plowed into ME2, with its improved control scheme, with gusto that only died down a bit, and I powered through ME3 with a furor that I haven’t [...]
Posted in Miscellany, Uncategorized Tags: cultural critique, feminism, sexuality, women in games 2 Comments »
More on Harassment Around the Interwebs
April 28th, 2012 dr. b. We’ve talked about sexual harrassments and death threats in our community a lot around here at NYMG. Alex Layne has a couple of folks about death threats against women in the Open Source community and the fact 3 in 10 women are sexually assaulted at tech conferences. We covered the Jennifer Hepler sh*tstorm that broke [...]
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