I'm Laura Kate Dale, and I'm available for freelance work! Reach out if you're interested in Accessibility Consulting, LGBT / Disability Representation Consultation, Sensitivity Reading, Video Game Mock Review Analysis, Freelance Game Reviews, and Freelance Event Coverage (Interviews / Previews).

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Reviewed Titanium Court for Wand! I talked about how it gave me a headache, the joy of match three games (I'm an abashed player of those games), and its parallels to Alice in Wonderland report.wand.com/reviews/tita...

Queer writing is so important, goodness. I actually don't where I'd be without it? Like, I'd be a completely different person. I've had more years alive reading queer lit and thinking than without. Protect progressive libraries - both online and irl. 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

For this Lesbian Visibility Week I'd like to say that queer women just write sexy scenes so much better, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I'm rescuing a few more of my old pictures that I noticed were not deleted on Twitter and lol, I looked like this 9 years ago.

Everyday should be take yourself out to walk day - tanyagotchi

Addiction is a real, psychological, lived experience, so props to whomever this is who is doing the work.

If you host a website, never ever work with WPTango. We were charged around $3000 with no explanation and when asked for refunds we were given the run around, and now they're canceling our services lol Yay indie media - totally great and fun thing to do

Genuinely so excited for what's to come!

An AI dares to dream that she is human. You’ve been hired to put her in her place. We’re sunset visitor 斜陽過客, the creators of 1000xRESIST, and this is our next game: Prove You’re Human. Published by our friends at @blacktabbygames.com. s.team/a/4533950

Hey #gamedesign folks in the greater Toronto area! I'm planning to run an event at @torontogamesweek.com in June, showcasing "alt control" games (ones with unusual interfaces) If you are or know someone working on such a game or interested in playing them, please fill in / pass along this survey:

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans rights are human rights. Trans folks have saved my life.

Picked up a lot of game goodies from the most recent Steam sale because I was too injured & sick to play a lot of games last year. What goodies did you pick up? :)

⏰ Reminder: Speaker apps for the Game Devs of Color Expo close on April 18 (11:59pm ET)! 💬 We're looking for talks, microtalks, panels, & dev interviews 💰 All speakers are paid + eligible for Game Dev Grants. If you’ve been thinking about applying... this is your sign! 👋🏾 #gamedev

Less than 1 day that Solace State is on sale at 45% off! I also reactivated the demo if anyone wants to check that out first! Your support would mean the world to me because this past year of chronic health issues and physio have cost me so much in opportunities and actual costs. Thank you! 💜

Less than 1 day that Solace State is on sale at 45% off! I also reactivated the demo if anyone wants to check that out first! Your support would mean the world to me because this past year of chronic health issues and physio have cost me so much in opportunities and actual costs. Thank you! 💜

If you need a QA/Test Lead for your team with 9 years of experience in the industry, including live service and single player AAA titles, please hit me up. I have worked on titles like Destiny 2 and Fortnite, and would love to be your test team's best advocate and process improver. somnifery.com

Happy to Announce that Sunken Stones is now out on Android! Try before you buy! play.google.com/store/apps/d...

As I'm coming up on 1 year of struggle on a new site of chronic pain in my body, I thought there's something interesting about how I've been watching a lot of faceless content creators in games like Minecraft, and very little Hollywood and zero Kpop. I feel less judgmental about my appearance...

I've been thinking about this a whole bunch in terms of game design and how to not over-affirm players.

Trans folks desperately trying to warn everyone that the so-called gender critical movement was coming for reproductive rights for years, I'd been detailing links between them and US anti-abortion groups only for it to be ignored and it burned me out, but look, it's exactly what we all warned about:

Only *63 hours left* to play our steam demo & back All Will Rise - our game of card-based social combat, revenge on billionaires + dead river gods. We don’t think there’s anything like it out there! We need your support to make something new & gloriously weird 🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

100% this. I also really appreciate the term non-consensual AI. Like, all of us posted to the internet prior to Gen-AI scraping it and we didn't consent to its use. Also, there's increased unequal power dynamics around data rights and data privacy norms that corporations have over individuals.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER didn't have to demean & fetishize Black women activists to show how broken revolutionaries are. So few representations of women activists & it CHOSE to punch down. BTW, I made Solace State cause I NEEDED to learn from Asian & American activist sources & polsci research.

Hey today's International Women's Day. As someone who depends on VAW therapy to work through my trauma from gendered violence, I hope that more folks offer non-judgmental space and grace to women who are processing through harm, from those suffering in silence to those working with support systems.

As much as I am currently on my Professional Yaoi Project, I definitely want to release more Yuri, so I love me more GL, Yuri, Baihe going mainstream. I just need to get my yaoi-to-dating-women pipeline out first, lol.

Hahaha needed this brevity

A government which does not want trans people to exist, and is legally allowed to force detransition in prisons, has created incentive for itself to put more trans people in prisons.

Trump's extrajudicial assassination of Soleimani without US Congress is one of those mindboggling international relations moments that made me not believe at first that he could run for re-election. But it's obvious. Time & time again, US institutions are putrid with racism.

165 death toll according to the Guardian. The US leadership who ordered this are utterly, irreconcilably inhumane.

Thinking about 1000xRESIST today again. 💜

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

when i say the NYTimes deserves neither your money nor your respect, i also mean NYTimes cooking, NYTimes puzzles, crosswords, connections, and wordle, the wirecutter, the athletic, and all their podcasts. the nytimes continues to platform a person who made trans people's lives worse

So dystopic that it practically circles around to unbelievably dark satire. (The satire is The Purge MC.)

🌴DEMO ANNOUNCEMENT🌴 Surprise! I am thrilled to announce that the demo for Ourlands, my cozy island builder, just went live! Take a break from, well, everything, and go craft your perfect slice of paradise. Enjoy! s.team/a/2074470

We need your help! Dirty Rectangles is putting together an informal list of every game made in Toronto from 2020 to 2026 as well as the general location of its development in the city for the purposes of a fun exhibition during Toronto Games Week. Know a game? Tell us! dirty-rectangles.com/toronto

Can't believe I woke up to this anime hair. 😁✨📈

Please admire my dad's very gothic present to me.

Coping with so much pain today. Cried after a flare up.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

There is a PlowTO Map. 🤭 I'm a child lol.

oh no I have been blushing through lesbian youtube all snowy weekend long but it is weekday and I need to concentrate, please help.

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

Canada's federal gov has a new program to bring researchers to Canada & my uni is starting an internal nomination process for chairs. If you are a full or associate prof working on AI/democracy/community engagement/environmental justice and you may be interested in moving to Canada, dm me

I'm at this stage of my deskbound worklife rn:

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.