In the recent weeks and months I have found myself asking the question over and over again, “Why would you shoot an unarmed or restrained person when they were not a threat?” and the answer has bounced back and forth between hatred and fear. Or perhaps more accurately the hatred […]
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Not long ago, I wrote about looking at some of the studies on how men see women (and vice versa, and how we see our own genders) from a game design angle. Studying what eye trackers reveal about how we look at bodies can tell us a lot about media, […]
Recently Jessica Lachenal at The Mary Sue wrote a post about what The Mary Sue means to her. She was preceded by many contributors and readers doing the same, and they talked about topics ranging from (finally) getting paid for one’s work to the importance of positive fan reaction. It […]
In December of 2013, I’d just started dating my partner. I was also working a dead-end job in an attempt to lessen the debt I was digging myself into by going to college. That job sent me to Terre Haute for a good portion of my winter break, where I […]