Thorns

I'm currently watching Making Space: Empowering Underrepresented Voices from the online gaming convention Freeplay 2020 which is a great discussion involving voices from all over the world, and I think is worth watching for anyone interested in empowering and understanding marginalised voices, even outside the games industry.

Like on the one hand Making Space is an Australian-based organisation that used to be for "women in games and tech" but has recently broadened it's scope, partly due to the hard work of a lot of trans people. On the other hand one of the speakers is a woman in South Africa who runs a African Women in Games group that doesn't explicitly include queer people in it's mission because homosexuality is illegal in many African countries, so they have to work around it carefully. Which is the sort of thing you don't normally hear about in these kinds of discussions!

Unfortunately there's no captions. There's a chat during live talks, people didn't post much for this panel asides from a few useful links and general support.

There's a bunch of other interesting looking talks, coming up and already done. One on Disability JUST started, I asked about captions but have not gotten a reply yet. There's slides with the basic info at least. EDIT: Someone told me they can't do captions for live video but are looking into adding them to older speeches.

A while ago I had a brief conversation with Shreen Ayob about her pdf "Pick Your Battles: a practical guide to social activism" and promised to give her further feedback...then didn't. (Sorry Shreen /o\)

Having been reminded about this promise I think I have to give up on the clear summary I was hoping to produce, so instead here are some rambling general thoughts. I'm making this a public post since she said she's after feedback leading up to the next edition and this way other people can have a look and comment.
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