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aye!!! we up! finally here! i've missed you alyssa!
drsepinwall.bsky.social Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · May 28
#GameStudies and other awesome people - the one and only Dr. @kishonna.bsky.social Gray has arrived!! 🥳
May 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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saraventure.bsky.social
“Brute force” (DOGE’s primary method)is a common way to gain access and take control of systems in computer science. Everything in tech feeds toxic masculinity: the terminology, methodologies, and epistemic frameworks. You know who saw this shit coming? Safiya Noble, Kishonna Gray, and Judy Wacjman
February 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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kaerf1.bsky.social
Hey folks, Kishonna Gray & I are editing a book series on Black Media Studies. We are looking across the spectrum of Black Media. If your work intersects with media and digital technology, come check us out.

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Black Media Studies - LSU Press
Series Editors: Kishonna Gray, University of Michigan Kevin Winstead, University of Florida What is Black Media Studies? This intellectual tradition has
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November 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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pelitutkimus.fi
"Within a landscape of technological and cultural innovation, Blackness is implicated in the building and maintenance of gaming culture because Blackness has always been on the cutting edge of technological creation and innovation."

Professor Kishonna L. Gray on Black game studies. #gamestudies
Black Game Studies: From Theorizing a Genre to Developing a Field – Pelitutkimus.fisearchexpand
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May 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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blackgirlgamers.bsky.social
Oh we not done. Great news for impactful academic Professor Kishonna Gray, @biancabelairwwe.bsky.social made history, @miaginae.bsky.social with the W and a first from Trinidad Hermida.
January 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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danieljkelley.bsky.social
Awesome profiles of leading folks in making games safer and more equitable spaces coming out today:

Dr. Rachel Kowert: https://bit.ly/3C6UMLt

Dr. Kishonna Gray: https://kotaku.com/kishonna-gray-video-games-racism-consultant-pokemon-go-1850477275
The Brilliant Scholar Who’s Challenging Racism In Game Design
Dr. Kishonna Gray’s studies of race and gender in gaming have made her a sought-after consultant in the industry
kotaku.com
June 2, 2023 at 7:45 PM
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aaronshaw.bsky.social
Kishonna Gray's 2012 piece really got folks going about intersectionality and disinhibition effects (Kishonna L. Gray. 2012. Intersecting oppressions and online communities. Information, Communication & Society, 15:3, 411-428, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.642401)
November 20, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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kaibierge.bsky.social
En Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (2020), Kishonna Gray utiliza el enfoque de la interseccionalidad para analizar videojuegos y comunidades digitales que a menudo pueden resultar espacios de discriminación y exclusión para las personas racializadas.
November 29, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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thethales.bsky.social
In games, she suggests, “we can imagine the world to be different, we can create these different worlds, and [they] can be the model for what the world could look like.”

https://kotaku.com/kishonna-gray-video-games-racism-consultant-pokemon-go-1850477275
June 4, 2023 at 1:23 PM
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quinnae.com
I've literally written research on it and am friends with scholars who've studied GG professionally as well; I've depended on their work (I'm thinking of people like Adrienne Massanari, Kishonna Gray, and others). No argument from me that it should be analysed.
March 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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haimson.bsky.social
TODAY at 3pm! Ann Arbor book launch event with Kishonna Gray and @hibby.bsky.social.

www.si.umich.edu/about-umsi/e...
March 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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sesamescholar.bsky.social
I'm at the wonderful #CTC2024 conference. Last night I heard the fantastic Kishonna Gray speak about race, youth, gaming, and virtual and IRL spaces. I learned a lot 🤩
October 17, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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yaleisp.bsky.social
Many thanks to Kishonna Gray for giving a wonderful talk on voice moderation in gaming at the ISP today!
November 21, 2023 at 7:21 PM
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saraventure.bsky.social
“Brute force” (DOGE’s primary method)is a common way to gain access and take control of systems in computer science. Everything in tech feeds toxic masculinity: the terminology, methodologies, and epistemic frameworks. You know who saw this shit coming? Safiya Noble, Kishonna Gray, and Judy Wacjman
February 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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drsepinwall.bsky.social
I think I'm about ready to send this revision in. Look at the gorgeous sentence I came up with once I moved Kishonna Gray out of my footnotes & into text. And my conclusion is a lot more fleshed out than when half of it sat in my head as implicit (thanks to the eds for pushing me to lengthen it)!
text: ". By taking players to Blackhaven’s locked archives, Blackhaven helps players understand gaps between the information museums might have on slavery and what they choose to present, an important part of slavery and memory studies as well as the “archival turn.” In this way, Blackhaven shifts away from more typical 4X historical games centering on eighteenth-century history, like in Age of Empires or Civilization, that invite players to reenact conquest and subjugation; it instead represents a model of what Kishonna Gray and David Leonard have called for, “video games as instruments of justice” or “sites of resistance.”
January 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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critdistance.bsky.social
Kishonna L. Gray unpacks the digital patterns of antiblackness in games which continue to oppress and imperil Black lives in real life. (Open access PDF)

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View of Killing the Black Body
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October 29, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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drsepinwall.bsky.social
The beginning of #WokeGaming is 🔥x1000. Look at those awesome opening sentences!! Just the first sentence and the first clause are 🙇‍♀️. ChatGPT cannot write like that!
Opening text to INTRODUCTION Not a Post-Racism and Post-Misogyny Promised Land: Video Games as Instruments of (In)Justice Kishonna L. Gray and david J. LEonard: BrEaKinG nEWs: novEmbEr 15, 2017 Amid the daily reminders on our social media feeds that racism and sexism remain defining forces in our culture, there are also moments of respite. Out of the constant turmoil that Black women experience around hair, the release of an immersive and interactive game provided a glimmer of hope in the fall of 2017. Created by Momo Pixel, Hair Nah allows players to customize an avatar who can “smack away as many white hands” as possible as they attempt to touch locs, twists, braids, and relaxed Black hair (Callahan 2017).
January 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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42edgames.bsky.social
GAMES. ARE. FOR. EVERYONE. Kudos to Dr. Gray for her hard work to make that statement a reality. kotaku.com/kishonna-...
The Brilliant Scholar Who’s Challenging Racism In Game Design
Dr. Kishonna Gray’s studies of race and gender in gaming have made her a sought-after consultant in the industry
kotaku.com
October 11, 2023 at 3:00 PM
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krystenstein.bsky.social
Dr. Kishonna Gray & I are thrilled to share that our co-authored article “Not a Detour from Rigor”: Teaching as Care, Organizing, and Collective World-Making will be published in Pedagogy in 2025. We’re deeply honored that the editors invited us to lead Volume 26.1 as the commentary for the issue.
May 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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alelazic.bsky.social
Btw there are tools that can help, at least when it comes to citations

Gender Balance Assessment Tool by Jane L. Sumner: jlsumner.shinyapps.io/syllabustool/

#GrayTest by Kishonna Gray: Do I cite at least 2 women and 2 scholars of color AND discuss their work in the text?
alelazic.bsky.social Aleksandra Lazić, PhD @alelazic.bsky.social · Sep 27
To Whom It May Concern—
We can tell. You're a man citing only other men, engaging only with the work of other men, respecting the opinion only of other men... I wanted you to know we can see it. It's pretty obvious.
September 29, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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browngirlgamercode.com
When did you first experience Southern Gothic in Media?

🤩We spoke with the amazing Dr. Kishonna Gray about why she loves the genre & how #SouthernGothic themes are present in everyday lives of Black folks in the South!

📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mD4...
#SouthofMidnight #bggc
May 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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merilainen.bsky.social
This is what a conference chair (on the right) very happy with a keynote presenter (on the left) looks like. Brilliant work by Kishonna Gray! #nordicdigra25 #gamestudies
Two people, Kishonna Gray and Mikko Meriläinen, talking to each other. Mikko, the person on the right has his hands balled into fists from happy excitement.
May 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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lillianmcintyre.com
It’s also insane that this use of the hostage mechanic was (is?) still present, and that there is no way to report. I attended a talk by Kishonna Gray recently where she stressed that the priorities of platforms are revealed by what can and cannot be reported, and this seems like a damning example.
January 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM