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Lean
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History, Gender Studies, Video Games.
PhD Candidate, Department of Critical Indigenous Studies, MQ
member of EnGender! (https://engender-academia.com/).
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Together with the removal of games happening on Steam and itch, this marks that we have reached a crisis point in regards to the power that platforms have over our games and the culture that is permitted or not within their walled gardens. We need to create collective solutions outside their walls.
santaragione.com Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · Jul 25
It’s gone. Three years of work by a talented, delightful team. Fittingly, Wheels of Aurelia was also a story about fighting for the very rights that are now being eroded.
July 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Come and join the engender conference this year! It’s needed more than ever …
flumminism.bsky.social Geschlecht Macht Wissen @flumminism.bsky.social · Mar 21
This year's En-Gender Conference will take place 21-23 August. Here is the Call for Papers.

Please share as widely as you can!

Further, we are still looking for keynote speakers and since it is the 5 year celebration, we want to invite our hero(in)es!

Any suggestions?
En-Gender 2025 Annual Online Conference, 21-23 August Building and Thinking Resistances This year we are celebrating our 5th consecutive year running the En-Gender Conference and very excited to be able to engage in more and deeper exchanges and connections. We hope to bring back some of our previous presenters to learn how your work has been developing and welcome newcomers that wish to share their knowledge, experience and trajectories. Following up from last year’s theme, this time we switch the focus to resistances, their development and projections. This includes understandings of communities formed and involved in their creations, international connections, as well as projections into possible resisting futures. This conference promotes an intersectional approach that involves the understanding of complex interactions across multiple relations and contexts. At En-Gender, we maintain the commitment to be a space of respectful and safe conversations and community building across regions and academic areas. The three days will be divided into a) Roundtable discussions Following last year’s success of this style of critical exchange, we decided to bring it back. This section will have short (5 minute) presentations that should be designed to lay the basis of community discussions. The presentations can be based on research as well as more general ideas and questions. This section specifically aims at engaging undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars from all stages who want to share work and ideas that are still in the making. In addition to presentations, we are also looking for respondents and chairs for the roundtable discussions. b) Paper presentations The presentations in the section should be based on individual or collaborative research, have a length of 15-20 minutes and will be structured in thematically fitting panels. We invite short and long presentations on, but not limited to, the following topics: - Community building across/through resistances - Imbrications of local, regional, national and international resistances - Theoretical constructions and understandings of resistance - Resistance and praxis - Gender and resistance - Gendered resistance - Gender, History and resistance - Resistance to anti-gender/right wing movements - Resisting futures/resisting for a future Please fill out this google form until April 30. All presentations can be published as articles in the En-Gender Journal afterwards. Looking forward to reading your contributions, Your En-Gender Team.
April 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
ide4fix.bsky.social
5th year running the En-Gender Conference!
Feel like joining this year? See the CfP below with two options for presentation styles.
Here is the form link for your convenience!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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The best thing about being an academic with a network?
I know whom to write an email to when I am in need for good literature on TERFism and Right Wing Politics.

Also - any suggestions here on this app?
February 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Please consider doing this survey. We'd love to hear from people all over the world. Queer or not queer, you'd have thoughts on seeing queer representation.
sandyosullivan.bsky.social Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · Dec 3

(posting on behalf of) Alana Blakers who is doing a PhD on queer museums as part of my ARC project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists. Any and all participation is appreciated

mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
February 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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We will start planning our fifth EnGender online conference soon!

What theme would you like best?

Here you can have a look at previous conferences: engender-academia.com/conferences/
Conferences
We are thrilled to have been able to conduct yearly online conferences since 2021 and to invite various scholars from all over the world! You can find all information on previous conferences and th…
engender-academia.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
ide4fix.bsky.social
Groups are back!
We have two options one is on right now come and have a chat and learn what fellow people are doing.
If you have something to work on or want to share some ideas, we'll be back in 12 hours for the second one.
If you miss/can't make it today we do this every other week! Come join!
flumminism.bsky.social Geschlecht Macht Wissen @flumminism.bsky.social · Jan 23
En-Genders and everyone interested in talking about gender studies:

We have writing groups every other week!

Thursday 9 pm GMT - talking and networking
Friday 9 am GMT - doing some writing together

If you want to join and get the zoom link, please write me!
January 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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We are currently running a survey that focuses on queer Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander gaming practices. Particularly, asking about character creation, representation, playing and watching practices.
Here is the link to the survey: limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/75...
Gaining Lives
limesurvey.mq.edu.au
December 30, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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Do you play, watch, stream and/or develop video games?
Are you 18+, queer and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander gamer?
How about filling out this survey and sharing your thoughts and opinions about your gaming experiences?
limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/75...
First page of a flyer with disperse clouds in the background. At the center part a sign with the wordin Gaining Lives suryve. Below it with smaller letter for Queer Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander gamers. Below it the image of a standard console controller. At the bottom left corner the Macquarie University logo. Bottom center the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures logo. At the bottom right corner encircled the Aboriginal flag, the Torres Strait Islands flag, the pride flag and the trans flag. Second page of the flyer with same disperse clouds background. At the center a QR code that leads to the survey. Below it a gaming health bar, 3/4 full with a heart on the left side of it. Bottom center the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures logo. At the bottom right corner encircled the Aboriginal flag, the Torres Strait Islands flag, the pride flag and the trans flag.
November 25, 2024 at 7:38 AM