Super excited to have gotten tickets for this!!! (togetherforpalestine.org)

I'll be live in 45 minutes (2.45 BST) on twitch.tv/mayamada for the launch of #DoILookLikeAGamer campaign launch, to chat about Diversity in Games, Code Coven, and my path into games. Join along!!

So happy that I once again got to be a part a jury for the family BAFTA. I was surrounded by brilliant peers who put a lot of love and thought into judging this category - We had our job cut out for us, with such a great collection of games! Massive congratulations to Astrobot, well-deserved win!

Late announcement but super happy to say I'll be at Pocket Gamer Connects Monday & Tuesday, working the booth of one of our alumni games, White: Anastasis (wishlist today! store.steampowered.com/app/2892870/...) - So come say hi in the Big Indie Zone at stand i17! 💖

I wanted to add - As I can't quote-repost it, that Reema from @codecoven.bsky.social made into the list on advocacy!!!
I really wanted to share what I'd written about her because she is absolutely amazing, in the next post

🔗 safeinourworld.org/news/devcemb...

And put work in place to change things for the long term! Because ultimately, if we only look at the lens of equality (equal pay), without looking at equity (gender pay gap) then we are only fixing things for a set amount of people, instead of working to improve society. (8/9)

Twitter Archive: Dec 2020 & 2022;
We had an important question to answer in the UK Games Industry Slack today, and that is "What's the most common name" there. I present to you... A wordcloud of the games industry in a nutshell

(1st Image is 2022, 2nd is 2020)

Gardening this weekend and the first flowers of spring got me inspired to do my first linocut of the year and it turned out so well 🥰

We need to be doing better, this industry deserves better. We all know that more diverse studios make for more innovation and richer storytelling... And to finish - We need to unionise the industry, and work together for better treatment (6/6 - End)

This, of course, doesn't stop with disabilities, another extreme piece of damning data - We are taking so many steps back in this industry with those redundancies. (5/6)

The most damning bit of information. People of marginalised race/ethnicity are being gutted from the industry. We were an extremely white industry before (10% is appalling) but things are about to get a ton worse... (4/6)

Looking at LGBTQIA+ folks, the trend continues. (3/6)

We can see that with gender, non-binary (as an umbrella term, people who don't fit in the gender binary) are much more impacted, compared to their representation . Of course, trans folks are more likely to be impacted as well. (2/6)

Last year, (with the help of Gabriel who's not on here) I put together a survey to understand who was impacted by redundancies. To no surprise, marginalised people were more likely to be impacted. I took some time to compare it with the Ukie census, starting with gender: (🧵1/ 6)

A few months ago, I picked up a new hobby that's been so good for my mental health - Lino cutting. While I don't want to make another hobby a job, I thought I'd open an Etsy shop as I can print existing projects! If that's your sort of thing: nessprintsbycinzia.etsy.com

I've been spending time in hobbies and doing creative stuff lately and it's been so satisfying and energising 🥹👀