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Race, Sexuality, and Disability in Games By: Karen, Rachel, and Waylon Race in Video Games -Popular video games often play on racial stereotypes -Often playing into the prison industrial complex and systemic poverty -Maintaining color lines and

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Race, Sexuality, and Disability in Games

By: Karen, Rachel, and Waylon

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Race in Video Games

  • Popular video games often play on racial stereotypes
  • Often playing into the prison industrial complex and systemic poverty
  • Maintaining color lines and perpetuating white privilege
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Young, Black (& Brown) and Don’t Give a Fuck

Virtual Gangsters in the Era of State Violence-Leonard

  • ”Ghettocentric” games
  • Games teach race, and racism
  • ”increasing militarization of public space”
  • Video games contribute to our racial “common sense”
  • Games outline the dominant ideological preoccupations and presuppositions,

articulating the social problems and moral panics projected on virtual reality and our

  • wn social, political, cultural, and racial fabrics
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Grand Theft Auto

  • San Andreas
  • Public opinion of killing of civilians/gangsters vs killing of police officers in games
  • How civilians/police are treated in gameplay vs gangsters/criminals
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Sexuality in Video Games

“The Gay Button” - Adams

  • The Sims
  • Skyrim
  • Mass Effect
  • Dragon Age
  • Fallout
  • Fable
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Positive queer representation

The Last of Us Life is Strange Tracer from Overwatch Krem from Dragon Age: Inquisition Kung Jin from Mortal Kombat X

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Homophobia in the gaming community

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Disability & Video Games

Representation in Video Games Iconic Disabled Video Game Characters The Problem with Disabled Video Game Characters Disability and Access to Video Games Video Games as Rehabilitation & Therapy

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Lester Chest Grand Theft Auto V Unspecified “Wasting” Disease Taimi Guild Wars 2 Degenerative Muscle Disease Sir Hammerlock Borderlands 2 Multiple Amputee / Partial Blindness

Popular Disabled Characters

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  • Dr. Huey Emmerich

Metal Gear Solid Spinal Bifida Joker Mass Effect Brittle Bone Disease Woods Call of Duty Restricted to Wheelchair

Popular Disabled Characters

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“I learned how to fly.”

Caroline Becker Wolfenstein: The New Order Paralyzed ~Caroline Becker regarding the loss of her ability to walk…

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Bentley Sly Cooper Damaged Spinal Cord

…Always a Sidekick

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Disability & Access to Video Games

http://www.quadstick.com/ http://game-accessibility.com/documentation/physical-disability-games-controllers/

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Video Games as Occupational Therapy

Physical Therapy

  • Elderly & Disabled
  • Rehabilitation

Behavioral Treatment

  • Autism