The blog Not Your Mama’s Gamer, started by Samantha Blackmon and Alex Layne in 2011, was designed as a space that would bring scholarly endeavors in line with personal passion, a space that would combine feminist interrogation of games with the games community. Over the years, NYMGamer’s slate of writers has featured professors, writers, and professionals from a variety of industries, but the focus has always been the same: unpacking games from a feminist perspective, and having a good time while we’re at it.
In 2015, we began planning a careful shift to a peer-reviewed middle-state publication offering a dedicated space to feminist games studies. Our first issue debuted in April 2018, and while we will continue to offer blog content, along with our regular podcast, the journal aims to create space for peer-reviewed articles on feminist games scholarship, including textual engagement, criticism, theory, and research, as well as multimedia presentations, as well as critical book and game reviews.
For more, please see our editors and staff, and our call for submissions; for questions, please contact the staff.
Please note: we reserve the right to moderate every comment posted to the site. Our writers make it a point to engage with people who take the time to read and respond (and we thank you!), and while we enjoy robust debate, we will not publish abusive, empty language.