Race, Sexuality, and Disability in Games By: Karen, Rachel, and Waylon
Race in Video Games -Popular video games often play on racial stereotypes -Often playing into the prison industrial complex and systemic poverty -Maintaining color lines and perpetuating white privilege
Young, Black (& Brown) and Don’t Give a Fuck Virtual Gangsters in the Era of State Violence- Leonard -”Ghettocentric” games -Games teach race, and racism -”increasing militarization of public space” -Video games contribute to our racial “common sense” -Games outline the dominant ideological preoccupations and presuppositions, articulating the social problems and moral panics projected on virtual reality and our own social, political, cultural, and racial fabrics
Grand Theft Auto -San Andreas -Public opinion of killing of civilians/gangsters vs killing of police officers in games -How civilians/police are treated in gameplay vs gangsters/criminals
Sexuality in Video Games “The Gay Button” - Adams ● The Sims ● Skyrim ● Mass Effect ● Dragon Age ● Fallout ● Fable
Positive queer representation Life is Strange The Last of Us Krem from Dragon Age: Inquisition Kung Jin from Mortal Kombat X Tracer from Overwatch
Homophobia in the gaming community
Disability & Video Games Representation in Video Games Iconic Disabled Video Game Characters The Problem with Disabled Video Game Characters Disability and Access to Video Games Video Games as Rehabilitation & Therapy
Popular Disabled Characters Lester Chest Taimi Sir Hammerlock Grand Theft Auto V Guild Wars 2 Borderlands 2 Unspecified “Wasting” Disease Degenerative Muscle Disease Multiple Amputee / Partial Blindness
Popular Disabled Characters Dr. Huey Emmerich Joker Woods Metal Gear Solid Mass Effect Call of Duty Spinal Bifida Brittle Bone Disease Restricted to Wheelchair
Caroline Becker Wolfenstein: The New Order Paralyzed “I learned how to fly.” ~Caroline Becker regarding the loss of her ability to walk…
…Always a Sidekick Bentley Sly Cooper Damaged Spinal Cord
Disability & Access to Video Games http://game-accessibility.com/documentation/physical-disability-games-controllers/ http://www.quadstick.com/
Video Games as Occupational Therapy Physical Therapy -Elderly & Disabled -Rehabilitation Behavioral Treatment -Autism
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