The Justice, Ecology, Law and Place (JELP) community invites applications to its 4th Grad Student Workshop! The workshop allows students whose work broadly relate to JELP to network and get feedback in a friendly atmosphere. Deadline Dec 17, 2025, see link for more. www.linkedin.com/posts/pierre...

Tampere Game Research Lab Spring Seminar is on the horizon again. This will be out 22nd annual game studies work in progress seminar. The theme is different each year, this time it is Events and Communities. Check out the CFP.

CGSA has become one of my favourite academic spaces. Super interesting research. Great folks. Student friendly. Hybrid. Montreal! Submit a proposal!

I am once again reminding you that this conference is great and that you should submit work here - we have some of the most robust hybrid support in the biz, so that anyone, anywhere can join in the festivities! #gamestudies #cfp

Excited to be wrapping up my time in Norway and Finland with this lunchtime talk at the @coegamecult.bsky.social! I'll be talking about these two games, but also how they fit into my broader work on representing sex in indie games and platform governance and censorship.

If you follow me you probably: a) care about porn 🌽 b) care about public health 💉 c) all of the above 😷🤜🍩💦 Check all the boxes by donating to PASS! Help ensure the health & safety of folks in the adult industry by contributing to our work: givebutter.com/PASSP2P25/pa...

Enjoying games and vertical gains in Bergen!

The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...

The GAMERella Game Jam is NEXT WEEK! While the in-person event is sold out already, there are still some online spots available for those who can't make it in person but still want to make something amazing together.

We are hiring a tenure-track assistant professor at the College of Law, @usask.ca. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise in: (1) law and technology, (2) business (especially corporate law), and (3) Indigenous law and Indigenous legal theory. usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

Come work with me!

 We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute. 

A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

A reminder of our open call for postdoctoral researchers focusing on cultural game studies, closing on Friday this week, 31 October at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2 (Finland time): tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

Does anyone have tips on folks in Canada who offer 1) law reform workshops (thinking along the lines of this one that NAWL offers nawl.ca/workshops/) and 2) ATIP workshops.

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Strangers on the 'Net campaign so far! 🌈💖 Can you help us keep the momentum going? Please share the campaign with people you think might love it and vote in our latest poll about what you'd like to see in our next updates! gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Does anyone have tips on folks in Canada who offer 1) law reform workshops (thinking along the lines of this one that NAWL offers nawl.ca/workshops/) and 2) ATIP workshops.

GAME JAM OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT We have our 2025 theme... ✨️ i made this for you ✨️

Dear #AdultGame devs: For the upcoming episode of our podcast "Random Encounters", we're looking for developers who'd like to share their perspectives on depictions of sexualised violence in interactive fiction. We'd need your answers, either in writing or as voice recordings, until October 31.

A+! Great job! No notes! "The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included 'multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations' in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions." www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Amidst the Steam & itch.io deplatforming, I've managed to miss the fact that S-209, "An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material" has been making its way through the Senate (where it was introduced). You can read and follow the meetings here: www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en...

Amidst the Steam & itch.io deplatforming, I've managed to miss the fact that S-209, "An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material" has been making its way through the Senate (where it was introduced). You can read and follow the meetings here: www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en...

Yesterday: 3-hour walk in summer weather. Today: Cajoled (barely) into peeing outside in the snow.

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

📣✨Call for Papers!📣✨ CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026. This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”. Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...

Apply for this wonderful conference!

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:

Call for Contributions: Abolitionist Imagination--Arts Praxis, Process, and Pedagogy in Action for special issue of Crime, Media, Culture [Deadline: Dec 15, 2025] More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-con...

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...