aye!!! we up! finally here! i've missed you alyssa!

“Brute force” (DOGE’s primary method)is a common way to gain access and take control of systems in computer science. Everything in tech feeds toxic masculinity: the terminology, methodologies, and epistemic frameworks. You know who saw this shit coming? Safiya Noble, Kishonna Gray, and Judy Wacjman

Hey folks, Kishonna Gray & I are editing a book series on Black Media Studies. We are looking across the spectrum of Black Media. If your work intersects with media and digital technology, come check us out. lsupress.org/black-media-...

"Within a landscape of technological and cultural innovation, Blackness is implicated in the building and maintenance of gaming culture because Blackness has always been on the cutting edge of technological creation and innovation." Professor Kishonna L. Gray on Black game studies. #gamestudies

Oh we not done. Great news for impactful academic Professor Kishonna Gray, @biancabelairwwe.bsky.social made history, @miaginae.bsky.social with the W and a first from Trinidad Hermida.

Awesome profiles of leading folks in making games safer and more equitable spaces coming out today: Dr. Rachel Kowert: https://bit.ly/3C6UMLt Dr. Kishonna Gray: https://kotaku.com/kishonna-gray-video-games-racism-consultant-pokemon-go-1850477275

Kishonna Gray's 2012 piece really got folks going about intersectionality and disinhibition effects (Kishonna L. Gray. 2012. Intersecting oppressions and online communities. Information, Communication & Society, 15:3, 411-428, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.642401)

En Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (2020), Kishonna Gray utiliza el enfoque de la interseccionalidad para analizar videojuegos y comunidades digitales que a menudo pueden resultar espacios de discriminación y exclusión para las personas racializadas.

In games, she suggests, “we can imagine the world to be different, we can create these different worlds, and [they] can be the model for what the world could look like.” https://kotaku.com/kishonna-gray-video-games-racism-consultant-pokemon-go-1850477275

I've literally written research on it and am friends with scholars who've studied GG professionally as well; I've depended on their work (I'm thinking of people like Adrienne Massanari, Kishonna Gray, and others). No argument from me that it should be analysed.

TODAY at 3pm! Ann Arbor book launch event with Kishonna Gray and @hibby.bsky.social. www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/e...

I'm at the wonderful #CTC2024 conference. Last night I heard the fantastic Kishonna Gray speak about race, youth, gaming, and virtual and IRL spaces. I learned a lot 🤩

Many thanks to Kishonna Gray for giving a wonderful talk on voice moderation in gaming at the ISP today!

“Brute force” (DOGE’s primary method)is a common way to gain access and take control of systems in computer science. Everything in tech feeds toxic masculinity: the terminology, methodologies, and epistemic frameworks. You know who saw this shit coming? Safiya Noble, Kishonna Gray, and Judy Wacjman

I think I'm about ready to send this revision in. Look at the gorgeous sentence I came up with once I moved Kishonna Gray out of my footnotes & into text. And my conclusion is a lot more fleshed out than when half of it sat in my head as implicit (thanks to the eds for pushing me to lengthen it)!

Kishonna L. Gray unpacks the digital patterns of antiblackness in games which continue to oppress and imperil Black lives in real life. (Open access PDF) ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-v...

The beginning of #WokeGaming is 🔥x1000. Look at those awesome opening sentences!! Just the first sentence and the first clause are 🙇‍♀️. ChatGPT cannot write like that!

GAMES. ARE. FOR. EVERYONE. Kudos to Dr. Gray for her hard work to make that statement a reality. kotaku.com/kishonna-...

Dr. Kishonna Gray & I are thrilled to share that our co-authored article “Not a Detour from Rigor”: Teaching as Care, Organizing, and Collective World-Making will be published in Pedagogy in 2025. We’re deeply honored that the editors invited us to lead Volume 26.1 as the commentary for the issue.

Btw there are tools that can help, at least when it comes to citations Gender Balance Assessment Tool by Jane L. Sumner: jlsumner.shinyapps.io/syllabustool/ #GrayTest by Kishonna Gray: Do I cite at least 2 women and 2 scholars of color AND discuss their work in the text?

When did you first experience Southern Gothic in Media? 🤩We spoke with the amazing Dr. Kishonna Gray about why she loves the genre & how #SouthernGothic themes are present in everyday lives of Black folks in the South! 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mD4... #SouthofMidnight #bggc

This is what a conference chair (on the right) very happy with a keynote presenter (on the left) looks like. Brilliant work by Kishonna Gray! #nordicdigra25 #gamestudies

It’s also insane that this use of the hostage mechanic was (is?) still present, and that there is no way to report. I attended a talk by Kishonna Gray recently where she stressed that the priorities of platforms are revealed by what can and cannot be reported, and this seems like a damning example.