This week, I was re-reading Donna Haraway’s “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perception,” and I had one of those revelatory moments that come only when you’ve read something a million times already, when you have absorbed and understood it and are free to […]
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Last week, a friend mentioned the recently released film The Girl With All the Gifts, and its associated book. I’d never heard of either, but it’s no surprise to anyone around here that I’m a huge zombie nerd, so the trailer immediately caught my attention, because it’s a human story […]
Warning: MGSV spoilers, discussions of sexual violence and war within. Metal Gear is and has always been a weird beast. Sometimes the good guys are bad guys are good guys on the side and sometimes they’re all clones and have maybe exchanged a body part or two. In this universe, […]
Though there have been some great strides in the presentation of empowered female characters in videogames, developers still have a long way to go. In a recent dialogue with Samantha Blackmon and Alisha Karabinus about female characters who fall short of their potential, we found ourselves asking why narratives and […]
[Spoiler warning: The following post covers some potentially triggering content and contains major plot spoilers for Life is Strange Episode 2: Out of Time and some slight conversation/situation based spoilers for Life is Strange Episode 3: Chaos Theory.] The warning signs were there from the start of the second episode: […]
The latest entry in the Mad Max franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road, employs its grim, post-apocalyptic world to comment on a good many contemporary concerns. There’s the obvious one, which was confirmed to be director George Miller’s inspiration for the series: the oil crisis and ongoing concerns over the sustainability of […]
While the rest of us were enjoying TableTop Day this weekend in the privacy of our own homes (or in public if we so chose), Anita Sarkeesian was at a Columbus, OH game parlor having her photograph taken without her permission and posted (and RT’ed) on Twitter. This is problematic […]
Episode 64: Quiet, Woman!: On Silent Women in Video Games and On Underpants (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) Alex, Sam, and Sarah come together to consider Metal Gear Solid’s mute sniper, agency, and silent women in video games and on underpants. We had a few technical […]
This week, I wanted to continue my exploration of The Last of Us, with a little dash of something I didn’t get to talk about: The Walking Dead’s 400 Days DLC. As I played through 400 Days, I found myself thinking a great deal about my choices and what impact they would […]