Social Science Research Council Research AMP Mediawell
Citation

Trans Game Studies

Author:
Ruberg, Bo
Publication:
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
Year:
2022

Video games are a rich site for exploring the place of trans identities and experiences in digital media. As a widely influential popular media form, video games simultaneously overlap, resonate, and clash with trans issues and the contemporary digital lives of trans people. Yet scholarship addressing the intersections of video games and transness remains comparatively limited. Here, I propose a vision of what we might call a trans game studies at the intersection of trans studies and game studies...