you’ve just tumbled into the starting point for a journey through feminist utopias. If you’ve hurt yourself, you can use the healing pod right down the hall.
Either way, the purpose of this space is to function as an archive for my thesis preparation. The title can be roughly translated as ‘(role-)play-worlds as experimental grounds for queerfeminist futures’.
As I am going to work myself through the theoretical groundwork of GAME and GENDER STUDIES, it will fill itself with notes and scribbles and little field notes I’ll want to hold onto (also I’m really eager to gear up my brain).
Without further ado….
Let’s dive in! We’ll become cyborgs with Donna Haraway, transcend the human (and the humanities) with Rosi Braidotti, customize our bodies the way we want them (or not) in games like Cyberpunk 2077.
maybe we’re going to save the world by being our authentic selves. Let’s close our eyes because it’s time for some nice, intersectional utopias. There will be a fair bit of dystopian worlds, some gore and sexual content, though (TW!)
– be warned.
PREVIEW-PRESENTATION
If you want to know more about how intersectional feminism and engaging in roleplay are connected, you can check out this animation:
(thx to Suna for showing me this)
What’s described here is Haraway’s vision of a new community, which she elaborates on in her influental work ‘Staying with the Trouble – Making Kin in the Cthuluscene’. In contrast to most other theoretical works, Haraway uses storytelling techniques and the identification with different protagonists (of the same name) to illustrate her thoughts. Regarding the relevance of roleplay, well…TO BE CONTINUED
