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Gerald Voorhees

@gerald-voorhees.bsky.social

(he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.

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Gerald Voorhees@gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dear Game Studies: I have been appointed Editor in Chief of Loading... The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association. I will issue a call for Associate & Managing Editors in the next few weeks, and for reviewers (including Editorial Review Board). I expect to reopen submissions this Fall.

ACLU@aclu.org · 8mo ago

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Lisa Diedrich@lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Can't help but think of Sara Ahmed's powerful analysis of "diversity work" & what she described as the gap between the university’s symbolic commitment to diversity & the lived & often exhausting reality for faculty & students of color & other underrepresented groups on campus.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Jess Morrissette@decafjedi.com · 9mo ago

"Rad Dudes, Rude 'Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s," my latest co-authored article with Dr. Megan Condis, just got accepted at Games: Research and Practice! It's a giant content analysis of thousands of old game ads. 👍

Gerald Voorhees@gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Book Announcement: Genres are social conventions ratified by creators and audiences, and so they are inherently political commitments that express our attachments and antagonisms to the cultural and political systems that organize our relationswith one another, our environments, and the world.

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Gerald Voorhees@gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Book Announcement: Genres are social conventions ratified by creators and audiences, and so they are inherently political commitments that express our attachments and antagonisms to the cultural and political systems that organize our relationswith one another, our environments, and the world.

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Seth Rudy@sethrudy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Me, a professor: *orders a course pack* Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright* Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students

Gerald Voorhees@gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Always a great conference!! Generative conversations, great people, and an amazing location. Hope to see some of you there!

CGSA/ACÉJ@cgsaacej.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our brand-new and bilingual website for CGSA 2026 is now live (a whole day early, go us!): event.fourwaves.com/cgsa2026 We're officially ready receive your wonderful proposals (click the "Submissions" tab in the top-left). As always, email us if you encounter any issues or have any questions. <3

Aaron Trammell@aarontram.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🎉🔥🎉ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉🔥🎉DAY🎉🔥🎉 Jonathan Rey Lee’s book on CATAN is almost out. It’s the first in the Tabletop Gaming series that Paul Booth and I have been hard at work editing this past three years. Anyway, the book is fantastic. Please consider it and share with the right people.

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Josh Call@joshcall.bsky.social · last yr.

This has been a project long in the making, and evolving from several years of conversations with good friends and colleagues. I'm beyond proud to have worked with everyone to help bring these to life.

Gerald Voorhees@gerald-voorhees.bsky.social · last yr.

Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social Out Jan 2026!

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · last yr.

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC plan to invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial int...

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austin_walker@austinwalker.bsky.social · last yr.

And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.

The BDS movement is calling for people to pressure Microsoft with divestment and exclusion from contracts, whenever feasible. We also call for boycotting Microsoft’s gaming products, with the following options as tiers of engagement: Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription. Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft and Call of Duty – flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft. Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products, including Xbox-branded consoles, headsets, accessories and all games published by Microsoft-owned publishing labels (such as Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda and Blizzard).