Cody Mejeur

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Was great getting to talk about this fantastic game with Shannon, and starstruck to be quoted next to the fantastic Kishonna Gray! Thanks for writing this piece Shannon! And everyone check it and Consume Me out

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Was great getting to chat with Rudolf about Historiographies of Game Studies--check out the episode!

@sparklebliss.bsky.social , @emmavphd.bsky.social , Alisha, and I were recently on the New Books Network podcast to talk about Historiographies of Game Studies! Check it out! And huge thanks to Rudolf Thomas Inderst for having us on!

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Loved working on this chapter! It’s on trans realism in games, drawing a lot of inspiration from @caelkeegan.bsky.social’s and micha cárdenas’ works. Excited to see it out, and thanks to fantastic editors Katherine and Margarita!

Congratulations @emmavphd.bsky.social, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, and @onlyalishak.bsky.social! And thanks to @punctumbooks.bsky.social for publishing! 👾

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I feel like there’s something super fitting about this company sharing its name with fabled dangerous seeing stones in lord of the rings that should be avoided because of their greed and hubris.

Came in from mowing the yard to find my editor copies arrived! She’s here, and she’s CHONKY. So much great game studies content past, present, and future in this collection. Get your free open access ebook or order a physical copy at @punctumbooks.bsky.social website!

Congrats, Emma, Alisha Karabinus, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, and @cmejeur.bsky.social! Fantastic collection with a TOC that makes me salivate to keep reading. What I've already read is wonderful. It's going to do heavy lifting in the intro course for my new Game & Media Studies program!

After 5 years of hard work by @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, @onlyalishak.bsky.social, myself, our contributors, and the lovely people at @punctumbooks.bsky.social Historiographies of Game Studies is out NOW! You can read all 780 pages for FREE. 🔓
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I have a chapter in this FANTASTIC collection edited by @cmejeur.bsky.social @sparklebliss.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social and Alisha Karabinus!

It’s *OPEN ACCESS* so you can read it for free!
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#gamestudies #historyofgames #gamescholarship

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess!

HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES: What It Has Been, What it Could Be

780 pages of disciplinary self-care, otherwise known as intellectual history. Come for the pixels, stay for the resolutions.

#VideoGames #MediaStudies

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My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies.

Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!

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dear game studies community: we made you something.

with love,
so many people

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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be, Edited by Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen... punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Historiographies of Game Studies is now published open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social ! This massive collection examines why game studies is the way it is, and how it might change and grow in the future. Congrats to all contributors, and please share!

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Honestly I’m surprised/not that NYT published this drivel, chock full of transphobic stereotypes, conservative fear mongering, TERF rhetoric, cherry picking, and every other logical fallacy you can imagine. Andrew Sullivan is an embarrassment to our community and our elders.

LGBTQ Video Game Archive A curated/researched collection of information of LGBTQ content in digital games from 1980s-present

Some long planned updates/projects are coming to the LGBTQ Game Archive. Follow on BlueSky for those updates, and take a look at the new design and logo refresh: lgbtqgamearchive.com

Halcyon Daze: The Final Voyages of the Galactic Starcruiser A feature-length documentary about the closure of Disney's Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser and the fandom it left behind

We are live on kickstarter, and I am a nervous wreck. Tell your friends (about the kickstarter, the emotional state is not very important).
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Does anyone know why the Center for Solutions to Online Violence has gone dark recently? It was such a valuable resource that I used in some of my seminars each semester, but as of a week or two ago it's not accessible. Not sure if it's just another dark sign of the times or something else...

and huge congrats to the editors and authors of these collections!

Mejeur, Cody, and Xavier Ho. “Drawing Queer Intersections Through Video Game Archives.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies, 355–68. Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2025.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms Abstract. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot ad

Mejeur, Cody. “Transing Holodeck Realism in Video Games.” In The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, edited by Katherine Bowers and Margarita Vaysman, 1st ed. Oxford University Press, 2025. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo....

A couple of my publications have come out recently! On intersectional visualizations of the LGBTQ Video Game Archive with Xavier Ho, and another on trans realism in video games. Citations in attached posts, shoot me a message if you'd like copies!

I'm not happy that Musk gave two Nazi salutes at Trump's inauguration, but there's grim satisfaction in the undeniable evidence that this is a fascist movement and a fascist government, something that was already a bald fact but took a bunch of extra words to prove.

Looks like I will be going to SCMS 2025 in Chicago! Looking forward to reconnecting with folks there. My SCMS acceptance/rejection advice every year tho is: it’s a notoriously fickle conference that is a crapshoot to get into, and a rejection is not a reflection on the value of your work!

Just got to the moment in Dragon Age Veilguard where my character, who is trans, had a conversation with 2 other trans people and the second I realized what was happening I started bawling. I never thought I’d see this in a AAA game. Whatever the transphobes say, thank you, dragon age team.

One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react.

We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous

My article, "Burning Closets and Nights in the Woods," on queer pastorals, anti-pastorals, and ecological alliances in video games, is now published! It's in an amazing special issue edited by Cameron Clark and Ellen McCallum.
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