Tag: academia
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Queering TTRPGs: A History of Queer Games
Read more: Queering TTRPGs: A History of Queer GamesForeword: This post functions primarily as a transcript for the audio-only presentation recording on the driftoff mobile sleep application. The recording (and subsequently, this transcript) aims to give general audiences…
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From Hierarchies to Networks: Rethinking Authorship in TTRPGs
Read more: From Hierarchies to Networks: Rethinking Authorship in TTRPGsAlternative understandings and types of authorship have been debated in academic literature across multiple disciplines for some time.1 In terms of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs), one of the most broadly…
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Queerness as Creative Destruction: Breaking and Remaking the Self
Read more: Queerness as Creative Destruction: Breaking and Remaking the SelfIn conservative politics worldwide, queerness is cast as a monstrous ‘phantasm’ (according to Judith Butler), capable of doing great harm and destruction. While this is untrue, what if queerness was…
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Queer TTRPG Studies: A Manifesto
Read more: Queer TTRPG Studies: A ManifestoQueer TTRPG Studies is an academic movement that heavily draws from intersectional disciplines such as queer theory, feminist studies, crip theory, and critical race theory. It applies insight from these…