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I’m Not Giving Up The Ebert Debate: Why It Matters to Diversity in Games that Video Games are Art

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Lewis Prothero, a Trump-resembling character from V for Vendetta, speaks on a television channel from the film called BTN.

Representation is a Minefield — The Queer Safety Aesthetic

Fictional Violence, Aesthetic Genre, and…

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Abby stands behind Ellie on the beach during their final fight. Both have short hair and are covered in blood.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Worksheets and Dinosaurs: Putting the Violent Actions of The Last of Us Part II’s Player…

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On Hot Takes, Privacy Norms, Identity, and Why I Stopped Blogging

Almost a year ago I wrote a Medium blog post which I tweeted about to my following of, at the time, about 2,000 Twitter followers, entitled Night in the Woods: A Rebirth of Graphical Adventure Games, and Trumpian…

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Hollywood and Film vs. AAA and Indie Games: Who Is Losing Least in LGBT+ Representation?

A lot has been said recently about how so-called “AAA” video games are moving into the same cultural space that major Hollywood studio releases occupy — they are becoming places…

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Are Lesbian Characters Taking Over Video Games? Some Perspective on the History of LGBT+ Representation in Games

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Left-Wing Critical Theory, Entertainment, and Myth: “Star Wars is Fascist, Porn is Fascist” Taken Seriously

On Monday, December 18, 2017, as the Trump Administration banned a major wing of the United States federal government from using the words…

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THE LAST JEDI by Rian Johnson, Abridged (mega spoilers)

STAR WARS, EPISODE VIII: THE LAST JEDI

By Rian Johnson, JK Rowling, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, and Bootleg Girl

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Bootlegging the Matrix

This is a repost from the now defunct dotcom website I ran and could no longer afford to run, but people often ask for links to it, as it’s been extensively discussed in the transgender community.

Bootlegging the Matrix: In Which Bootleg Girl…

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A Congenial Response to “The Matrix: Really that Good” by Bob Chipman (aka MovieBob)

I must admit that being a fairly nonvisual person, I’ve never really engaged with videocasts or the YouTube community, but MovieBob is truly a master of the format. In a strange…

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Ellie’s Pop Culture Disc Horse
Ellie’s Pop Culture Disc Horse
Ellie Lockhart, rogue Ph.D. and famous Netflix-accredited noticer of the transgender themes in “The Matrix,” applies her analytical talents to a wide range of pop culture, video games, and fandom related discourses.
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