Cody Mejeur
@cmejeur.bsky.social
Assistant professor, UB Media Study. Researching and making queer/trans games, narratives, and communities. Director, Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio. Catch me 2025 at SCMS, CGSA, and more!
Was great getting to talk about this fantastic game with Shannon, and starstruck to be quoted next to the fantastic Kishonna Gray! Thanks for writing this piece Shannon! And everyone check it and Consume Me out
the NYT story on Jenny Jiao Hsia’s game Consume Me is up! “Consume Me nods back to the confessional style of YouTube videos from the early 2000s, and also contains skill-based gameplay in its six-hour run time, adapting scenes from Jiao Hsia’s life in inventive ways.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/a...
She Counted Calories as a Teen, Then Created a Game About It
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September 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Was great getting to talk about this fantastic game with Shannon, and starstruck to be quoted next to the fantastic Kishonna Gray! Thanks for writing this piece Shannon! And everyone check it and Consume Me out
Was great getting to chat with Rudolf about Historiographies of Game Studies--check out the episode!
Here we go again!
A new #Gamestudies #podcast episode is live & and
I had wonderful guests!
Historiographies of Game Studies. What It Has Been, What It Could Be (ed. Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen)
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Please listen, like and share!
A new #Gamestudies #podcast episode is live & and
I had wonderful guests!
Historiographies of Game Studies. What It Has Been, What It Could Be (ed. Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen)
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Please listen, like and share!
Alisha Karabinus et al. eds., "Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (Punctum Books, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Was great getting to chat with Rudolf about Historiographies of Game Studies--check out the episode!
@sparklebliss.bsky.social , @emmavphd.bsky.social , Alisha, and I were recently on the New Books Network podcast to talk about Historiographies of Game Studies! Check it out! And huge thanks to Rudolf Thomas Inderst for having us on!
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Alisha Karabinus et al. eds., "Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (Punctum Books, 2025) - New Books Network
Alisha Karabinus (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Studies at Grand Valley State University.
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September 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
@sparklebliss.bsky.social , @emmavphd.bsky.social , Alisha, and I were recently on the New Books Network podcast to talk about Historiographies of Game Studies! Check it out! And huge thanks to Rudolf Thomas Inderst for having us on!
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Loved working on this chapter! It’s on trans realism in games, drawing a lot of inspiration from @caelkeegan.bsky.social’s and micha cárdenas’ works. Excited to see it out, and thanks to fantastic editors Katherine and Margarita!
Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉
The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms
Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early
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September 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Loved working on this chapter! It’s on trans realism in games, drawing a lot of inspiration from @caelkeegan.bsky.social’s and micha cárdenas’ works. Excited to see it out, and thanks to fantastic editors Katherine and Margarita!
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Congratulations @emmavphd.bsky.social, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, and @onlyalishak.bsky.social! And thanks to @punctumbooks.bsky.social for publishing! 👾
Find "Historiographies of Game Studies" on JSTOR here: bit.ly/3JDOha2
Find "Historiographies of Game Studies" on JSTOR here: bit.ly/3JDOha2
Seeing the book you spent five years working on for sale on Amazon: 🙂
Seeing the book you spent five years working on ready for people to read and cite on JSTOR: 😀😁😃😍😇😭🥰
Seeing the book you spent five years working on ready for people to read and cite on JSTOR: 😀😁😃😍😇😭🥰
September 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Congratulations @emmavphd.bsky.social, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, and @onlyalishak.bsky.social! And thanks to @punctumbooks.bsky.social for publishing! 👾
Find "Historiographies of Game Studies" on JSTOR here: bit.ly/3JDOha2
Find "Historiographies of Game Studies" on JSTOR here: bit.ly/3JDOha2
Came in from mowing the yard to find my editor copies arrived! She’s here, and she’s CHONKY. So much great game studies content past, present, and future in this collection. Get your free open access ebook or order a physical copy at @punctumbooks.bsky.social website!
August 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Came in from mowing the yard to find my editor copies arrived! She’s here, and she’s CHONKY. So much great game studies content past, present, and future in this collection. Get your free open access ebook or order a physical copy at @punctumbooks.bsky.social website!
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Congrats, Emma, Alisha Karabinus, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, and @cmejeur.bsky.social! Fantastic collection with a TOC that makes me salivate to keep reading. What I've already read is wonderful. It's going to do heavy lifting in the intro course for my new Game & Media Studies program!
The book is out now! Free to download! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
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August 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Congrats, Emma, Alisha Karabinus, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, and @cmejeur.bsky.social! Fantastic collection with a TOC that makes me salivate to keep reading. What I've already read is wonderful. It's going to do heavy lifting in the intro course for my new Game & Media Studies program!
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After 5 years of hard work by @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, @onlyalishak.bsky.social, myself, our contributors, and the lovely people at @punctumbooks.bsky.social Historiographies of Game Studies is out NOW! You can read all 780 pages for FREE. 🔓
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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
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August 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
After 5 years of hard work by @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, @onlyalishak.bsky.social, myself, our contributors, and the lovely people at @punctumbooks.bsky.social Historiographies of Game Studies is out NOW! You can read all 780 pages for FREE. 🔓
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
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I have a chapter in this FANTASTIC collection edited by @cmejeur.bsky.social @sparklebliss.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social and Alisha Karabinus!
It’s *OPEN ACCESS* so you can read it for free!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
#gamestudies #historyofgames #gamescholarship
It’s *OPEN ACCESS* so you can read it for free!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
#gamestudies #historyofgames #gamescholarship
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
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July 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I have a chapter in this FANTASTIC collection edited by @cmejeur.bsky.social @sparklebliss.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social and Alisha Karabinus!
It’s *OPEN ACCESS* so you can read it for free!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
#gamestudies #historyofgames #gamescholarship
It’s *OPEN ACCESS* so you can read it for free!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
#gamestudies #historyofgames #gamescholarship
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PUBLISHED #OpenAccess!
HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES: What It Has Been, What it Could Be
780 pages of disciplinary self-care, otherwise known as intellectual history. Come for the pixels, stay for the resolutions.
#VideoGames #MediaStudies
@cmejeur.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social
HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES: What It Has Been, What it Could Be
780 pages of disciplinary self-care, otherwise known as intellectual history. Come for the pixels, stay for the resolutions.
#VideoGames #MediaStudies
@cmejeur.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
PUBLISHED #OpenAccess!
HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES: What It Has Been, What it Could Be
780 pages of disciplinary self-care, otherwise known as intellectual history. Come for the pixels, stay for the resolutions.
#VideoGames #MediaStudies
@cmejeur.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social
HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES: What It Has Been, What it Could Be
780 pages of disciplinary self-care, otherwise known as intellectual history. Come for the pixels, stay for the resolutions.
#VideoGames #MediaStudies
@cmejeur.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social
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My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies.
Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
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July 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies.
Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
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dear game studies community: we made you something.
with love,
so many people
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with love,
so many people
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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
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July 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
dear game studies community: we made you something.
with love,
so many people
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
with love,
so many people
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be, Edited by Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen... punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
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July 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be, Edited by Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen... punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Historiographies of Game Studies is now published open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social ! This massive collection examines why game studies is the way it is, and how it might change and grow in the future. Congrats to all contributors, and please share!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books
punctumbooks.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Historiographies of Game Studies is now published open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social ! This massive collection examines why game studies is the way it is, and how it might change and grow in the future. Congrats to all contributors, and please share!
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...
Honestly I’m surprised/not that NYT published this drivel, chock full of transphobic stereotypes, conservative fear mongering, TERF rhetoric, cherry picking, and every other logical fallacy you can imagine. Andrew Sullivan is an embarrassment to our community and our elders.
This is what the Paper of Record™ chose to publish for the 10th anniversary of Obergefell
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June 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Honestly I’m surprised/not that NYT published this drivel, chock full of transphobic stereotypes, conservative fear mongering, TERF rhetoric, cherry picking, and every other logical fallacy you can imagine. Andrew Sullivan is an embarrassment to our community and our elders.
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Some long planned updates/projects are coming to the LGBTQ Game Archive. Follow on BlueSky for those updates, and take a look at the new design and logo refresh: lgbtqgamearchive.com
LGBTQ Video Game Archive
A curated/researched collection of information of LGBTQ content in digital games from 1980s-present
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June 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Some long planned updates/projects are coming to the LGBTQ Game Archive. Follow on BlueSky for those updates, and take a look at the new design and logo refresh: lgbtqgamearchive.com
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We are live on kickstarter, and I am a nervous wreck. Tell your friends (about the kickstarter, the emotional state is not very important).
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Halcyon Daze: The Final Voyages of the Galactic Starcruiser
A feature-length documentary about the closure of Disney's Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser and the fandom it left behind
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March 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We are live on kickstarter, and I am a nervous wreck. Tell your friends (about the kickstarter, the emotional state is not very important).
www.kickstarter.com/projects/car...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/car...
Does anyone know why the Center for Solutions to Online Violence has gone dark recently? It was such a valuable resource that I used in some of my seminars each semester, but as of a week or two ago it's not accessible. Not sure if it's just another dark sign of the times or something else...
February 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Does anyone know why the Center for Solutions to Online Violence has gone dark recently? It was such a valuable resource that I used in some of my seminars each semester, but as of a week or two ago it's not accessible. Not sure if it's just another dark sign of the times or something else...
A couple of my publications have come out recently! On intersectional visualizations of the LGBTQ Video Game Archive with Xavier Ho, and another on trans realism in video games. Citations in attached posts, shoot me a message if you'd like copies!
January 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
A couple of my publications have come out recently! On intersectional visualizations of the LGBTQ Video Game Archive with Xavier Ho, and another on trans realism in video games. Citations in attached posts, shoot me a message if you'd like copies!
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I'm not happy that Musk gave two Nazi salutes at Trump's inauguration, but there's grim satisfaction in the undeniable evidence that this is a fascist movement and a fascist government, something that was already a bald fact but took a bunch of extra words to prove.
January 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'm not happy that Musk gave two Nazi salutes at Trump's inauguration, but there's grim satisfaction in the undeniable evidence that this is a fascist movement and a fascist government, something that was already a bald fact but took a bunch of extra words to prove.
Looks like I will be going to SCMS 2025 in Chicago! Looking forward to reconnecting with folks there. My SCMS acceptance/rejection advice every year tho is: it’s a notoriously fickle conference that is a crapshoot to get into, and a rejection is not a reflection on the value of your work!
November 25, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Looks like I will be going to SCMS 2025 in Chicago! Looking forward to reconnecting with folks there. My SCMS acceptance/rejection advice every year tho is: it’s a notoriously fickle conference that is a crapshoot to get into, and a rejection is not a reflection on the value of your work!
Just got to the moment in Dragon Age Veilguard where my character, who is trans, had a conversation with 2 other trans people and the second I realized what was happening I started bawling. I never thought I’d see this in a AAA game. Whatever the transphobes say, thank you, dragon age team.
November 16, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Just got to the moment in Dragon Age Veilguard where my character, who is trans, had a conversation with 2 other trans people and the second I realized what was happening I started bawling. I never thought I’d see this in a AAA game. Whatever the transphobes say, thank you, dragon age team.
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One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react.
We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous
We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous
November 14, 2024 at 1:59 AM
One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react.
We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous
We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous
My article, "Burning Closets and Nights in the Woods," on queer pastorals, anti-pastorals, and ecological alliances in video games, is now published! It's in an amazing special issue edited by Cameron Clark and Ellen McCallum.
Check it out here: www.regeneration-journal.org/issue/1299/i...
Check it out here: www.regeneration-journal.org/issue/1299/i...
Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture |
Issue: Issue: 0(1) Introducting Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture (2024)
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September 19, 2024 at 9:25 PM
My article, "Burning Closets and Nights in the Woods," on queer pastorals, anti-pastorals, and ecological alliances in video games, is now published! It's in an amazing special issue edited by Cameron Clark and Ellen McCallum.
Check it out here: www.regeneration-journal.org/issue/1299/i...
Check it out here: www.regeneration-journal.org/issue/1299/i...
Really excited to share an episode of Gayming Podcast that I'm in! This episode celebrates 35 years since CM Ralph published Caper in the Castro, a foundational queer game. Huge thanks to Robin and Miabyte for hosting, and to Adrienne Shaw who recommended me for it!
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History of Queer Games - Gayming Podcast for DIGIPRIDE 2024
Listen to this episode from Gayming Podcast on Spotify. On this episode of the Gayming Podcast, host Mia is joined by guest host Robin and special guest Assistant Professor Cody Mejeur to talk about t...
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May 28, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Really excited to share an episode of Gayming Podcast that I'm in! This episode celebrates 35 years since CM Ralph published Caper in the Castro, a foundational queer game. Huge thanks to Robin and Miabyte for hosting, and to Adrienne Shaw who recommended me for it!
open.spotify.com/episode/27xR...
open.spotify.com/episode/27xR...