I really enjoyed talking to Chris about the histories that shape the current deplatforming efforts affecting NSFW video games! Grateful for him taking this issue seriously. I wanted to share links to some of my colleagues’ work that I mention here:

Thanks to everyone who came to this today. It was such a joy to be in conversation and community with these brilliant people.

For your GRADUATE students! Submissions for the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize are due in ONE month on November 1, 2025. The winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in FMH. online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/aw...

The #DiGRA2026 conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures. The theme invites a critical and celebratory exploration of how digital games enable, mediate, or restrict pleasure across lines of identity, genre, platforms, politics and more. www.digraconference2026.com #DIGRA

Live now: Back new physical editions of Dog Eat Dog, The Mountain Witch, and my Princess with a Cursed Sword!

really interesting and probably pretty bad that they're going after high-risk payment processors directly now www.404media.co/florida-laws...

Nuit Blanche Eve starts tonight in Saskatoon! Featuring multimedia artworks by USask School for the Arts students. nuitblanchesaskatoon.ca/eve2025

I don't think it's overdramatic to say that we must consider whether we want "working artist" to be a viable prospect in the near future, and how to materially protect the field from corporations, execs, and managers all too happy to automate creative production with AI.

🎮 MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🎮 The next GAMERella Game Jam is happening November 15–16, 2025! This inclusive, beginner-friendly, and super accessible game jam is made for you! Join us for a weekend of creativity, collaboration, and cookies. ✨️ Sign-up is now open ✨️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/gamerella-...

"Every year, many games are disappearing, for various reasons. Every game that disappears from distribution is potentially lost to game preservation efforts. It is particularly worrying when games are potentially vanishing due to external pressure."

This summer, I was granted funding to study the social, cultural, legal and economic factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of pornographic video games (wild timing, I know). Thanks to that funding, I’m hiring three research assistants!

I'm happy to announce the launch of 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓? - an interactive resource that provides post-jam guidance to game jammers! I worked with @jimmunroe.net at GAIN to create this toolkit, which provides advice for jammers interested in commercial, artistic, or experimental development paths.

Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social Out Jan 2026!

🌊🙋‍♀️ long gone ➡️ Saskatchewan 🌾 www.tiktok.com/@chappellroa...

Job alert: We’re looking for a strong writer & communicator to join our team as a development manager! Grant writing is a central function of this role, alongside responsibilities in donor communications & engagement, & content strategy. Learn more and apply! job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

It is, indeed, a VERY BIG BOOK. 780 pages and FREE to download here: punctumbooks.com/titles/histo... #gaming #GameStudies

Happy to see this piece I wrote with @professorashley.bsky.social , Carl Therrien and @kenzitronic.bsky.social out now! Lots to be said, but for me the key point is that framing sex as risky & lacking expressive value & deplatforming sex is an insidious problem. theconversation.com/censoring-vi...

My department at Hunter College, which combines studio art & art history, has just posted a job listing for an assistant professor of ceramics. Please share widely, thanks! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

More and more find myself thinking about @reproutopia.bsky.social's conceptualization of enemy feminisms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcV3...

Look what arrived today! I can’t wait to dig into this collection 📚

Attending the 2025 Queerness and Games Conference? Join GWU Montréal members September 26-28 at our booth in the arcade and come along for our talk: GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU 🫵 www.qgcon.org/2025/

Help create the future of the games industry! On 8/20, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here: uvw-cwa.org/townhall-reg...

Payment processors shouldn't even have the right to discriminate what game can be bought and, by extension, what games are legitimate. Here's a good article that summarizes the situation, why it's a problem and its impact. theconversation.com/censoring-vi...

Happy to see this piece I wrote with @professorashley.bsky.social , Carl Therrien and @kenzitronic.bsky.social out now! Lots to be said, but for me the key point is that framing sex as risky & lacking expressive value & deplatforming sex is an insidious problem. theconversation.com/censoring-vi...

"As researchers, we are equally concerned with the ways these policies threaten the preservation of video games. Despite their long history, sex and pornography games are a neglected archive."

Open Call for Papers 2025🥰📢 Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by November 10, 2025, for a potential spot in our 2026 issue! More details below in this thread👇 #CallForPapers #GameStudies

Click the link below to see a list organized by the Canadian Game Studies Association of amazing researchers (including me 👋🏻)! We are all ready to chat with journalists about the current itch.io / Steam situation.

The Canadian Game Studies Association @cgsaacej.bsky.social is an org made up of game researchers, educators, and practitioners with expertise in a wide array of topics. We've published a list of experts related to Steam/itch to help journalists connect with members. gamestudies.ca/media-inquir...

The Canadian Game Studies Association @cgsaacej.bsky.social is an org made up of game researchers, educators, and practitioners with expertise in a wide array of topics. We've published a list of experts related to Steam/itch to help journalists connect with members. gamestudies.ca/media-inquir...

Curious about the Pixelles Make Games program? Stop by our virtual Info Session where you can learn more about making your first game with us, application tips, answer questions, get encouragement and chat with participants 📅 Tuesday, Aug 12, 6-8PM EST ✉️ RSVP: events.humanitix.com/info-session...

when it comes to porn panics, we're repeating the mistakes of the past every damn day www.404media.co/steam-itchio...

I spoke to @samleecole.bsky.social for @404media.co about the recent delisting of adult media on Steam and Itch and how through demonetization credit card companies unilaterally decide who lives and dies

CBC’s Day 6 talked to @ninamarie.bsky.social about Steam and itch. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

CBC’s Day 6 talked to @ninamarie.bsky.social about Steam and itch. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Australia bans YouTube? youtube.com/shorts/697cX...

All the punitive deplatformization & surveillance that gamers egged on against hot tub/"egirl"/OF streamers is a rehearsal for attacking that freedoms of expression that YOU love, sooner than later

Mastercard's statement illustrates the problem pretty well. Vague and overbroad rules, inconsistently applied, and no transparency or accountability about who exactly is responsible when censorship occurs.

Along with affected developers, I spoke to @jonore.bsky.social at CBC about the delisting of NSFW games on Steam and itch.

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A bundle of over 600 games, software, and zines from 271 queer artists across itch.io. itch.io/b/3062/queer...

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

Literally we were up to $2460 in potential matched donations and I promised $40 to make it a pleasingly round number. Support my finicky taste in figures / help fund travel grants for QGCon 2025 presenters and exhibitors here.

Sex testing is officially back in sports -- which is a huge bummer and also contradicts so much ethics, human rights law, and actual science. More on all that (and the history) on my podcast Tested: www.tested-podcast.com

Today is the first day of our week long #fundraiser and the matching donors' pledge has increased! Please help us reach our goal by sharing this post! . #boardgames #videogames #lgbtq #gaymer #gamestudies #mutualaid #queerstudies #genderstudies #gaming #indiedev #montreal #gamingcon #ttrpg

Do you want to directly support a bunch of queer adult game developers by giving them money? This bundle was made before the mass delisting and includes a ton of adult queer games. Directly materially supporting queer artists is one of the best ways to ensure that those artists survive this.

this is not to say that banning porn games isn't a stepping stone to banning non-sexual queer content: it definitely is. but it would be nice if we could actually hold solidarity with porn creators, instead of only caring when we think things we like might be affected.

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