Video games could use more feminism and you have the power to help

I delivered this talk to the West High School Feminist Club on November 20th,

1. Thanks go to the following lovely people for giving me the opportunity and the support I needed to make this happen:

• Izzy Srivastava
• Elsa Dubil
• Claire Adler
• Bita Tristani-Firouzi
• Izabella Bourland

###Video Games###

• Coming Out Simulator 2014 by Nicky Case
• Depression Quest by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler
• Dys4ia by Anna Anthropy
• Gone Home by the Fullbright Company
• Portal and Portal 2 by Valve Corporation
• queers in love at the end of the world by Anna Anthropy
• Sacrilege by Cara Ellison
• Siren For Hire by Maddy Myers
• Spelunky by Derek Yu
• Why I Run by Martin Brochu

###Board Games###

• Consentacle by Naomi Clark

###Online Videos###

• Tropes vs Women in Video Games by Feminist Frequency
• Why Are You So Angry? by Innuendo Studios

###Articles###

• Carol Shaw (video game designer) on Wikipedia
• The Most Important Women in the History of Video Games by D.S. Cohen
• River Raid on Wikipedia
• S.EXE by Cara Ellison
• The queer masculinity of stealth games by Riley MacLeod
• Remembering Syberia, an adventure game about a woman finding herself by Katherine Cross

###Websites###

• Sortingh.at
• Twine

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