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Conference Talk - Individual
Start Date
17-7-2020 11:30 AM
End Date
17-7-2020 12:30 PM
Abstract
2020 has been a roller coaster of unpredictability and chaos. I wrote Play Like a Feminist in 2018 and 2019, and then in 2020, the rules, the constraints, and the foci of our world changed. In this presentation, I revisit the phrase “Play like a Feminist” to consider how we can realign our thinking and still find a usefulness in playful protest. By thinking about games as a call to action and a mode of radical play, we can harness play to create better futures.
How to Play Like a Feminist in 2020
2020 has been a roller coaster of unpredictability and chaos. I wrote Play Like a Feminist in 2018 and 2019, and then in 2020, the rules, the constraints, and the foci of our world changed. In this presentation, I revisit the phrase “Play like a Feminist” to consider how we can realign our thinking and still find a usefulness in playful protest. By thinking about games as a call to action and a mode of radical play, we can harness play to create better futures.
Bio
Shira Chess, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Entertainment & Media Studies at the University of Georgia, in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is author of Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and the forthcoming book Play Like a Feminist (MIT Press, 2020).