😱 visitor (no, i'm not a human) - @orkidian.bsky.social
🍳 chef - @ingoodjesst.bsky.social
🎭joker (persona) - @radishark.bsky.social
🎵 alfira (baldur's gate 3) - sara

thanks for your amazing work, everyone! kazzi is excited to cause mischief and mayhem all year round in these outfits :3

last month, we celebrated halloween with a MAGICAL costume contest! members designed a costume for kazzi, our not-so-spooky mascot:

🐟 coven nami (league of legends) - @kilydwn.bsky.social
🐇 mimitchi (tamagotchi) - @juliwaves.bsky.social
👻 ghost - kaitlyn
⚔ melinoë (hades) - viv

we're so excited to share the 2025 edition of our community zine, featuring art by 11 MAGICAL members!

our theme this year was "blueprint of you" 💙

read here: docs.google.com/presentation...

how it started vs. how it went

MAGICAL leaders + members
@leylabelle.bsky.social, @hoyceowo.bsky.social
@sandiwiches.bsky.social, and @chuujun.bsky.social spoke about building marginalized gender spaces at PAX last month!

super proud to be represented by our amazing community 💞

we had a magical weekend! bay area members met up for lunch + sweet treats in berkeley 🍰

the 2025 MAGICAL zine kicks off today! 🎨

over the next three months, members will create a finished piece of art to display in a collection. if you signed up, check discord for our first steps

magical mascot emotes! ready to use in a discord near you

we've summoned a new MAGICAL member... meet kazzi, the bunny magipal! our new mascot + agent of chaos ✨

very important chart by kazzi designer @radishark.bsky.social

we're hosting a MAGICAL info session on may 23rd, 12 PM PT in our discord server! DM us for an invite 🌟

if you're graduating in 2025 + currently a member of a marginalized gender gaming club (such as @calmargengaming.bsky.social), come learn about us :)

we had a MAGICAL time at GDC 2025!

thanks for coming to our first annual meetup, let's do it again next year 🥰🎉

we're planning an IRL meetup around GDC week!

if you're part of the MAGICAL server + in the bay area from march 17-22, be sure to vote on a date and time in the #/ magical-meetups channel 💜

MAGICAL hosts creative projects for members to collaborate on together!

last year we published The MAGICAL Medium, a community zine featuring 12 contributors. our theme was "something new" ✨

📖 read the public edition, with 10 pieces on view: docs.google.com/presentation...

we hosted 14 events in the MAGICAL server for 2024!

some highlights:
📝 virtual volunteering
🎤 MAGICAL talks, our community speaker series
🍹 a summer mocktail social
📚 our zine launch party

if you're an alum of a marginalized gender student club, join us for 2025 :)

join MAGICAL to:
- meet new friends
- grow your industry network
- help build the community you want to be part of

💌 message us for a discord server invite! see you there :)

MAGICAL is for alumni of marginalized gender gaming clubs.

with 14 such organizations at universities across the US, our impact can be even stronger after graduation!

hi, we're MAGICAL!
✨ (it stands for "marginalized genders in collegiate - alumni")

we're creating an intentional, small community for people of marginalized genders in games. read more about us + how to join ⬇️