Gerald Voorhees
@gerald-voorhees.bsky.social
(he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
Always a great conference!!
Generative conversations, great people, and an amazing location.
Hope to see some of you there!
Generative conversations, great people, and an amazing location.
Hope to see some of you there!
Our brand-new and bilingual website for CGSA 2026 is now live (a whole day early, go us!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026
We're officially ready receive your wonderful proposals (click the "Submissions" tab in the top-left).
As always, email us if you encounter any issues or have any questions. <3
We're officially ready receive your wonderful proposals (click the "Submissions" tab in the top-left).
As always, email us if you encounter any issues or have any questions. <3
CGSA/ACÉJ 2026
Fourwaves - CGSA/ACÉJ 2026
event.fourwaves.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Always a great conference!!
Generative conversations, great people, and an amazing location.
Hope to see some of you there!
Generative conversations, great people, and an amazing location.
Hope to see some of you there!
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🎉🔥🎉ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉🔥🎉DAY🎉🔥🎉
Jonathan Rey Lee’s book on CATAN is almost out. It’s the first in the Tabletop Gaming series that Paul Booth and I have been hard at work editing this past three years. Anyway, the book is fantastic. Please consider it and share with the right people.
Jonathan Rey Lee’s book on CATAN is almost out. It’s the first in the Tabletop Gaming series that Paul Booth and I have been hard at work editing this past three years. Anyway, the book is fantastic. Please consider it and share with the right people.
October 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
🎉🔥🎉ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉🔥🎉DAY🎉🔥🎉
Jonathan Rey Lee’s book on CATAN is almost out. It’s the first in the Tabletop Gaming series that Paul Booth and I have been hard at work editing this past three years. Anyway, the book is fantastic. Please consider it and share with the right people.
Jonathan Rey Lee’s book on CATAN is almost out. It’s the first in the Tabletop Gaming series that Paul Booth and I have been hard at work editing this past three years. Anyway, the book is fantastic. Please consider it and share with the right people.
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Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.
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Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd
October 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd
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My book is out! 💗
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
October 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My book is out! 💗
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available!
Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games.
#StayAnalog
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Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games.
#StayAnalog
analoggamestudies.org
Analog Game Studies
analoggamestudies.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available!
Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games.
#StayAnalog
analoggamestudies.org
Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games.
#StayAnalog
analoggamestudies.org
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Brand-new International Journal of Role-Playing issue, this time on the topic of Consent in RPGs. @suzphdm.bsky.social served as Special Issue Editor on this one, and we are thrilled to see it in the world.
journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...
journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...
No. 16 (2025): International Journal of Role-playing Issue 16 | International Journal of Role-Playing
Special Issue: Consent in Analog Role-playing Games
journals.uu.se
September 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Brand-new International Journal of Role-Playing issue, this time on the topic of Consent in RPGs. @suzphdm.bsky.social served as Special Issue Editor on this one, and we are thrilled to see it in the world.
journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...
journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...
Not sure why folks on the left are cheering right wing infighting.
The night of the long knives was the nazis killing other nazis to consolidate power
The night of the long knives was the nazis killing other nazis to consolidate power
September 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Not sure why folks on the left are cheering right wing infighting.
The night of the long knives was the nazis killing other nazis to consolidate power
The night of the long knives was the nazis killing other nazis to consolidate power
This groundhog was giving me side-eye from grabbing apples off a tree on a public street.
Share the apples, buddy!
Share the apples, buddy!
September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This groundhog was giving me side-eye from grabbing apples off a tree on a public street.
Share the apples, buddy!
Share the apples, buddy!
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This has been a project long in the making, and evolving from several years of conversations with good friends and colleagues. I'm beyond proud to have worked with everyone to help bring these to life.
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!
Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social
Out Jan 2026!
September 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This has been a project long in the making, and evolving from several years of conversations with good friends and colleagues. I'm beyond proud to have worked with everyone to help bring these to life.
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!
Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social
Out Jan 2026!
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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!
Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social
Out Jan 2026!
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Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.
Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US
AHRC and SSHRC plan to invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial int...
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August 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.
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And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.
August 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.
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Happy to share that my book, Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play, is now available on the Bloomsbury U.S. site! Thank you again to those who took the time to review and engage with the work! 🙏🏼
#syllabus #gamestudies #communication
www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...
#syllabus #gamestudies #communication
www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...
August 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Happy to share that my book, Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play, is now available on the Bloomsbury U.S. site! Thank you again to those who took the time to review and engage with the work! 🙏🏼
#syllabus #gamestudies #communication
www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...
#syllabus #gamestudies #communication
www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...
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Missed Generation Analog 2025?
Want to revisit a panel or lecture?
Conference videos are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Want to revisit a panel or lecture?
Conference videos are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
GENERATION ANALOG 2025 "PUNK"
YouTube video by Analog Game Studies
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July 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Missed Generation Analog 2025?
Want to revisit a panel or lecture?
Conference videos are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Want to revisit a panel or lecture?
Conference videos are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Academia is rewriting the same research proposal 5 times to make different groups of people like you.
July 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Academia is rewriting the same research proposal 5 times to make different groups of people like you.
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As the CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference approaches, so too does our election season, and we are seeking nominations for new officers and representatives. Anyone interested in serving the Canadian game studies community, please check out our bylaws for info gamestudies.ca/governance/
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
As the CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference approaches, so too does our election season, and we are seeking nominations for new officers and representatives. Anyone interested in serving the Canadian game studies community, please check out our bylaws for info gamestudies.ca/governance/
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
Saturday evening plan:
May 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Saturday evening plan:
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📖My book is out!
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Mytholudics
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approac...
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April 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📖My book is out!
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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Fascism is DEI for white men
That's it.
That's it.
March 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fascism is DEI for white men
That's it.
That's it.
Sic semper tyrannis
February 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Sic semper tyrannis
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Barack Obama wanted to give Americans universal healthcare when Democrats had a supermajority in Congress. Republicans formed the Tea Party and watered the ACA down to almost nothing. Republicans have a slim majority now and Democrats pretend they’re helpless. They’re not helpless, they’re gutless.
February 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Barack Obama wanted to give Americans universal healthcare when Democrats had a supermajority in Congress. Republicans formed the Tea Party and watered the ACA down to almost nothing. Republicans have a slim majority now and Democrats pretend they’re helpless. They’re not helpless, they’re gutless.
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They are listing forbidden words because they are using word-search to identify material they want to prohibit, rather than judgment — which is human and would take longer. Digital search is for when you don’t care about getting things right, and just want to scare people into panoptic behavior
My favorite (perhaps apocryphal) anecdote along these lines was when a newspaper editor did an auto find and replace for “the queen” and changed it to match the style guide to “Queen Elizabeth II” but didn’t realise that edition also had a science article on the social behavior of bees.
Federal employee with a data role told me that a document was removed from employee access because it had the word "inclusion" in it.
As in, "inclusion of data in our estimates."
As in, "inclusion of data in our estimates."
February 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
They are listing forbidden words because they are using word-search to identify material they want to prohibit, rather than judgment — which is human and would take longer. Digital search is for when you don’t care about getting things right, and just want to scare people into panoptic behavior
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Honestly, I think even those of us who were saying gamergate is a training ground for/and direct path to outright fascism are probably a little bit surprised at how literally correct we actually were.
February 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Honestly, I think even those of us who were saying gamergate is a training ground for/and direct path to outright fascism are probably a little bit surprised at how literally correct we actually were.
If you like the pacing and tone of contemporary fantasy but also appreciate accessible writing that doesn’t read like the comments section, then check out the Warden series by @soundingline.bsky.social . Preorders for the third book is open
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Advocate: Book Three of The Warden Series|Paperback
"Omigosh! I've just found an author to put on my list of I've got to read everything they ever wrote! The Warden is a gem of the first order. Aelis is my hero."—Glen Cook, author of The Black Co...
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February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you like the pacing and tone of contemporary fantasy but also appreciate accessible writing that doesn’t read like the comments section, then check out the Warden series by @soundingline.bsky.social . Preorders for the third book is open