In the United States June is National LGBTQi+ Pride month. This month we celebrate our history and recommit to not only celebrating that history, but making strides forward in equality for all. It is because of this that we have chosen the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as our charity to […]
Gaming for Good
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Once again we are coming together as gamers and community members to play games and raise money for charity-gaming.org. Charity Gaming provides games to chronically ill children who are hospitalized. Being hospitalized is never any fun and it’s even less fun when you are a child who is hospitalized long […]
On Saturday, August 12, 2017 we are running our seventh Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen The Trevor Project as our charity and we are co-hosting with Girl Tribe Gaming so that we can do even more gaming and even more good. You could say that we have […]
Last Saturday, March 11th, my roommate, Nico, and I took part in the Gaming for Good 24 hour livestream. This time, we were raising money for the American Civil Liberties Union, and we met our initial goal (We’re still taking donations till March 31st, however, if you still want to […]
Our streams start in less than 7 hours and we all stoked to be playing games for such a great cause! As always we will be hosting one stream per shift on the NYMG Twitch channel, but you can check in to as many as you like using the handy […]
On Saturday, March 11, 2017 we are hosting our sixth Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as our charity. Since 1920 the ACLU has been fighting hate and bigotry in the United States. Since January the ACLU has been working diligently to […]
Today marks the 6th anniversary of Not Your Mama’s Gamer. Six years ago today we launched the site and broadcast with just me and Alex Layne. Over the course of six years, over a thousand posts, and almost 150 podcast episodes we have grown a lot. We now have a full staff […]
On Saturday, December 17, 2016 we are hosting our fifth Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as our charity. Since 1971 the SPLC has been fighting hate and bigotry in the United States. Since November 8th we have seen an enormous increase […]
On Saturday, October 8, 2016 we are hosting our fourth Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen Stop Soldier Suicide as our charity (link to donation portal below). Every day an average of 20+ veterans and 1 active duty soldier take their own lives. Because of the stigma […]
In this interview Kishonna talks with Kahlief Adams, host of Spawn on Me blog and podcast and creator of #Spawn4Good, about race, games, and activism. KG: Give us a little bit of your background. How did you get into gaming? What’s the first game you remember? KA: My name is Kahlief […]
I actually like to stream when I play games. I do it so that I can play games with friends and strangers even when I am playing a single player game or sitting at home in my game room all by myself. So doing streaming marathons to raise money for […]
Episode 121: Everything Is Awful: But For Now We Fight (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). The episode in which we talk about our lives and how we see them matching up with the questionable methods of disagreement on the internet. It reminds us all […]
NYMG is by no means new to streaming on Twitch and we’re certainly not new to talking about it. (Sarah’s mentioned her own plights as a woman streaming here and Alex comments on her love for the gaming community in Twitch here); I, however, I’m just getting my feet wet. […]
This weekend we ran our 24 hour streaming Mammothon to raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. On Saturday many of our staff members and our families played a lot of games and talked about them and to our audiences for what we consider a great cause. This streaming […]
As we started our sixth year here at Not Your Mama’s Gamer, we pledged anew to do the work of social change, to work harder to take that work offline, and to pursue our Gaming for Good Initiative more aggressively. And with our pledge it seems that the universe heard […]
“Twitch reveals itself to be a perfect witness of events happening over the video game industry and community” (Kautoue et. al.) As NYMG begins its new venture, Gaming for Good, I started thinking more about the importance Twitch and other streaming platforms in the new emerging social fabric of games. […]