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.
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!
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!
Saturday evening plan:
May 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Saturday evening plan:
If you're interested, here are the table of contents for both volumes, pulled from the clearance read files. Too many amazing folks to tag!
January 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you're interested, here are the table of contents for both volumes, pulled from the clearance read files. Too many amazing folks to tag!
Genre studies of games are mostly stuck on early 2000s formalism.
These 2 companion volumes push game studies toward understandings of games as 'equipment for living' and genres as located in the social and cultural conditions of their production and consumption.
Coming Summer 2025!
These 2 companion volumes push game studies toward understandings of games as 'equipment for living' and genres as located in the social and cultural conditions of their production and consumption.
Coming Summer 2025!
January 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Genre studies of games are mostly stuck on early 2000s formalism.
These 2 companion volumes push game studies toward understandings of games as 'equipment for living' and genres as located in the social and cultural conditions of their production and consumption.
Coming Summer 2025!
These 2 companion volumes push game studies toward understandings of games as 'equipment for living' and genres as located in the social and cultural conditions of their production and consumption.
Coming Summer 2025!
Less than 5 days until the Race in Games and Game Studies online conference! 24 scholarly paper presentations and 2 amazing rountables with 10 stellar academics!
Still time to register (for free) and be a part of the conversation: www.eventbrite.ca/e/race-in-ga...
Still time to register (for free) and be a part of the conversation: www.eventbrite.ca/e/race-in-ga...
December 4, 2023 at 3:46 PM
Less than 5 days until the Race in Games and Game Studies online conference! 24 scholarly paper presentations and 2 amazing rountables with 10 stellar academics!
Still time to register (for free) and be a part of the conversation: www.eventbrite.ca/e/race-in-ga...
Still time to register (for free) and be a part of the conversation: www.eventbrite.ca/e/race-in-ga...
Excited to share the schedule for the Race in Games and Game Studies Conference happening online Dec 7-8.
Register free at www.eventbrite.ca/e/race-in-ga...
Register free at www.eventbrite.ca/e/race-in-ga...
November 9, 2023 at 10:41 PM
Excited to share the schedule for the Race in Games and Game Studies Conference happening online Dec 7-8.
Register free at www.eventbrite.ca/e/race-in-ga...
Register free at www.eventbrite.ca/e/race-in-ga...