Queerness in Play

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Queerness in Play examines the many ways queerness of all kindsfrom queer as LGBT to other, less well-covered aspects of the queer spectrumintersects with games and the social contexts of play. The current unprecedented visibility of queer creators and content comes at a high tide of resistance to the inclusion of those outside a long-imagined cisgender, heterosexual, white male norm. By critically engaging the ways gamesas a culture, an industry, and a mediumhelp reproduce limiting binary formations of gender and sexuality, Queerness in Play contributes to the growing body of scholarship promoting more inclusive understandings of identity, sexuality, and games.

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Todd Harper is Visiting Professor in the Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore, USA. He previously served as Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Game Lab. He is the author of The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice (Routledge, 2013). His work has been published in Games and Culture, Convergence, and the Journal of Communication. Meghan Blythe Adams is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Their work has been published in such venues as First Person Scholar and Loading.: Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association. They serve as Essays Co-Editor and Editorial Board member for First Person Scholar. Nicholas Taylor is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University, USA. His work has recently appeared in Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology, Convergence, Feminist Media Studies, Games and Culture, and Journal of Computer-mediated Communication. He is also the co-director of Circuit Studio, a collaborative research studio and makerspace at North Carolina State University.

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