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There’s So Much Transphobia In Gaming. Where Did It Come From?
17“There is transphobia in society, and so there is transphobia in games,” Dr Mitchell McEwan, Lecturer in Computer Games at Macquarie University, told me. It’s a statement that shouldn’t come as a shock, especially to readers of this site. We see it in sports, we see it in schools and we see it in politics,…
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One In Three Men Prefer Playing Games As A Female Character, Study Finds
Female characters are few and far between in gaming, but a new study has revealed one-third of men prefer playing games as women.
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Comics Writer Sina Grace Talks The Lack Of Support He Received From Marvel While Writing Iceman
In 2017, writer and artist Sina Grace had a historically significant run on Iceman, a book we covered as it came out, in which the powerful mutant struggled as much with superheroic shenanigans as he did with the lived experience of life as a gay man, work for which he was nominated for a GLAAD…
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Artist Jen Bartel On Turning Fan Art Into A Comics Career And Paying It Forward
Artist Jen Bartel may have started out drawing Sailor Moon, X-Men and Ghostbusters fan art, but now she’s creating covers for some of today’s biggest comic books. Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Josie and the Pussycats and Marvel’s Jessica Jones, just to name a few.