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The Finale: “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here.”
The Finale: “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here.”
Quite honestly, I did not expect a 1-credit course in my final semester as an undergrad to make any sort of impact on me, but ironically…
Roann Yanes
Apr 28, 2019
Week 11: “All things being equal, and even when they are not, if the computer — or life — assigns…
Scalzi’s “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is” eloquently summarizes life’s inequities: “race and gender confer…
Roann Yanes
Apr 22, 2019
Week 10: “Boys will be boys, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
Not in the Kitchen Anymore reminded me why I never play with my microphone on when I play MMOs and why I go to great lengths to hide my…
Roann Yanes
Apr 14, 2019
Week 9: How did we get here?
I played Depression Quest, and I honestly cannot wrap my head around why this game is the center of controversy. If you can get over the…
Roann Yanes
Apr 7, 2019
Week 8: “Even a game with queer characters, queer plotlines, and queer approaches to game design…
Before this class, I never really questioned representation and diversity in video games. I, a woman of color, am still trying to see why…
Roann Yanes
Mar 31, 2019
In “Dressing Commander Shepard in Pink: Queer Playing in a Heteronormative Game Culture,” the…
Roann Yanes
Mar 24, 2019
Burrill’s “Watch Your Ass: The Structure of Masculinity in Video Games” (2004) genuinely baffled…
Roann Yanes
Mar 18, 2019
Week 5: “Acts of altruism are repeatedly presented in heavily gendered ways that are bound up in…
Anita Sarkeesian’s Damsel in Distress: Part 1 — Tropes vs. Women discusses how the Damsel-in-Distress trope disempowers female characters…
Roann Yanes
Feb 24, 2019
Week 4: “[V]ideo games glorify violence towards and objectif[y] women and perpetuat[e] a crass…
I know that it is only the fourth week of playing, but Kingdom Hearts has left me feeling hopeless and defeated after every gaming session…
Roann Yanes
Feb 17, 2019
Week 3: “Female sprites…[are]… trophies for the active, typically “male” sprites.”
Robert Mejia and Barbara LeSavoy discuss how in the Atari 2600 “gender and sexuality emerged from character interaction as opposed to…
Roann Yanes
Feb 10, 2019
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