Censoring video games with sexual content suppresses the diversity of human desire
Targeting adult NSFW video games could have knock-on effects on queer creators and sexual education content.
"As researchers, we are equally concerned with the ways these policies threaten the preservation of video games. Despite their long history, sex and pornography games are a neglected archive."
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QGCon 2025 Volunteer Sign-Up
Hello Potential QGCon 2025 Volunteers!
The Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon) 2025 will be held on September 26-28, 2025, in Montreal, Quebec. There will be talks, workshops, panels, and of course...
If youโre a rad, queer person interested in weird games and you want to help us run QGCon 2025, APPLY TO VOLUNTEER BY AUGUST 20!
Applications are due by August 20th; we'll get back to you by August 25th. If you have questions feel free to ask!
Learn more & apply here: forms.gle/B1CgvuKGnTjC...
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TOMORROW our matching donor's #fundrasier begins! Any amount, and even just sharing this post helps!
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#gaming #gamedev #indiegames #gaymer #gamestudies #queerstudies #genderstudies #paywhatyoucan #montreal #analoggames #videogames #twitch #queer #gay #convention #matchingdonation #indiedev
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Yahoo! Huge congrats on reaching this massive milestone.
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Looks great! I'll see you there ๐
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Surely worth it for those scads of slop websites, contradictory and inaccurate search results, generic and boring texts, and wonky and just plain ugly images
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As the CGSA/ACรJ annual conference approaches, so too does our election season, and we are seeking nominations for new officers and representatives. Anyone interested in serving the Canadian game studies community, please check out our bylaws for info gamestudies.ca/governance/
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
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Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.
๐ Sociologist: nostalgia for the future and video games. Co-founder of @nostagain.bsky.social
๐ Public Scholar 2025-2026 at Concordia University
๐งณ Now visiting Tampere University
๐ Learn more about me at https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Official account for the #CityOfTO sharing #TOnews. Not monitored 24/7. Contact 311 Toronto to create a service request. Terms of use http://toronto.ca/socialmedia.
#STS @ York University, Canada: (1) Dept. of Science, Technology & Society; (2) Graduate Program in Science & Technology Studies; and (3) Institute for Technoscience & Society
https://www.yorku.ca/research/its/
Picture credit: Zoran Svilar
๐ EN/FR translator
๐ Interactive Fiction author
๐ Passionate about art (especially games!), the natural world, and ethics
๐ฎ https://zophobas-morio.itch.io/ ๐ค
studying Twitch and Games @ Concordia, Media Studies MA ๐
she/her ๐ฟ
student; illustrator; twitch moderator; video essay enthusiast ๐บ
background in media studies, art history, and asian studies ๐ธ
Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker ๐น๐พ
Writer, scholar, game maker. Researching feminist gameplay, queer play, and digital culture.
Digital Humanities MA @ University of Alberta
Instructor @ MacEwan University
Proud dev of https://bsky.app/profile/chickensinmyhead.bsky.social
MA Student in Communication and Culture, York University
Researching character creation and player engagement in digital games
Blog: www.thethirdmedium.com
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
Director, Feminist Collaboratory and Data Visualization Centre
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Media and Tech & Womenโs and Gender Studies
University of Alberta
Coffee, dogs, fall leavesโฆand rest
Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Assistant editor at the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Interested in gender, politics & popular culture.
Digital sociologist, cybernaut, Senior Lecturer (ANU Cybernetics), Associate Professor (ITU Technologies in Practice).
Researching public sector tech.
Recent writing: Digitalization in Practice: intersections, implications and interventions (DeGruyter)
Both difficult and impossible
Pฤkehฤ; she/her; A/Prof Communication
Senior Lecturer of Digital Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University
MMU UCU committee
I'm a political economist of the internet
www.danieljamesjoseph.net
cultural industries, policy, work, politics etc.
School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/markbanks/
BigFriendly.Guides is @rygilliam.bsky.social and @ripefly.bsky.social. We used to work at Polygon, and now we're writing guides on a site we run at bigfriendly.guide.
Join our Discord server to help direct our coverage! https://discord.gg/r2nPqXGs2K
MTYMX/LEICSUK
Paracetamol
https://www.cynthiarodriguez.org
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Communications, Trent University Durham GTA. Interested in public (service) media, podcasting, and cycling.
