Kenzie Gordon 🍉
@kenzitronic.bsky.social
Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme. She/her
Praise the owl 🦉🦉
Michael Iantorno♨️🕹️@michaeliantorno.com · 2mo agoI had delightful time at @cgsaacej.bsky.social this year! ✊Labour talk w/ @kenzitronic.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social, & @evkuzn.bsky.social 🎮Game preservation w/ @jeanketterling.bsky.social & @videogamehistorian.bsky.social Thankful to CGSA for running inclusive events (praise the OWL).
Conference paper where I'm second author and my contribution is that once every slide I shout my name, Sean Paul style. Citation is Author 1 ft. me
Food Not Bombs YEG runs a meal delivery program called Helping the Humans which provides free, vegan meals to people experiencing food insecurity in Edmonton. If you or someone you know are in need of food, fill out form below and we can get you food within a week. surveyheart.com/form/61897fb...
Helping the Humans Intake (2nd gen.) 2w
Hello friend, we just need a bit of info from you to better help your family. Your info will only be shared with the people cooking and dropping off your meal. For full program guidelines, please vis...
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5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7416 - Petitions
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Canadians, if it helps, there's a form on the page where all you have to do is fill in your name, email, postal code, etc and it'll be sent to your local MPP. It's incredibly important that you speak up on this matter because this is a road we do not want to go down.
Mike W@gekido.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is absolutely unacceptable - for Canada or any country Contact your MP! dontsurveil.me/c22.html
Last week I appeared as a guest on the snazzy new podcast Levelling Up Mental Health with Andrew Nicholson & Adolyn Dar, and they just let me be on my soapbox! You can watch it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Fy...
Gender Violence and Video Games - Can games be used for violence prevention?
YouTube video by Leveling Up Mental Health
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Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Say no to her discriminatory referendum. Join me and sign up here. ouralbertaadvantage.ca
Stop Premier Smith’s Scapegoating of Immigrants
Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Vote NO on her racist referendum.
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Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...
The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up
I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.
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My partner Sean Groten's dissertation project exhibition is currently up at the Sound Studies Institute, if you're at ualberta, go check it out! It is really cool and empoweringly gives you the ability to turn down the volume on Danielle Smith 🫥 soundstudies.ca/2026/02/23/b...
becoming-noise:
becoming-noise: trans youth, queer spaces, and listening in deictic hope New work by Sean Groten Exhibition: March 9 – 20 Artist Talk: Wed, March 18, 5:30pm
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Don't mind me, just spiralling over the "motivational" messages in my houseplant app 😫
Y'all I just heard about a couple having a gender reveal party where the baby's supposed gender will be revealed by, wait for it... The gender of the stripper that pops out of a cake??!!? Not sure if this is the epitome of stupid gender reveal nonsense or maybe the one true correct way to do it 🤔
CBC's first few hours of Mexico coverage is so wild, just quoting any Canadian who happens to be in Puerto Vallarta - "Steve from Salmon Arm says, "This is the first time we've seen Mexico go up against the power of the cartels"" - shoot your shot at international political analysis, Steve!
please RT! if you've ever contacted a journal or publisher to have your name changed on a publication, a friend and colleague of mine wants to hear about your experience! drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #phdchat #academicchatter
Baby Ghosts is now recruiting for the next round of our newly revised Cooperative Foundations program - if you're part of a co-op-curious Canadian studio, this is an amazing opportunity to join a hugely supportive community and maybe transform the way you work together 👻
Baby Ghosts@babyghosts.org · 6mo agoCo-op curious? Apply for our NEW Cooperative Foundations program now! You and your collaborators will get 8 weeks of pre-formation education alongside alumni and other indie studios in a cozy cohort. Open to new and established studios and comes with a $5k grant. babyghosts.fund/coop-foundat...
do I actually work better at home because several times a day I can scream 'GAH' when the volume of things becomes untenable... it's becoming a pretty core part of my workflow
a woman wearing glasses is making a funny face and saying `` gah '' .
Alt: Tina Fey shouting 'gah'!
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🔥new report on debanking in Canada by @internetmaggie.com and @publicpubics.bsky.social
🥩himbo discourse🥩@internetmaggie.com · 6mo agoToday @publicpubics.bsky.social & I are pleased to share our new research report: Account Closed Without Notice 🏦💸🚫☂️ we clarify policies restricting bank access for many 🇨🇦 adult industry/SWers + offer recommendations to secure fair financial inclusion for all www.internetmaggie.com/debanking
We’re hiring a QA Analyst! $90,069 CAD/year, remote 6-month contract, 4-day work weeks with flexible hours! 🫶 Apply now: www.workwithindies.com/careers/ko-o... ✨
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
bots swarmed an online game dev survey we did and it sucks but also their answers are 🌟🌟🌟, today's winner "My cisgender identity let me focus purely on game dev coursework-no identity-related distractions, just mastering Unity and C#." i'm dying and also why hasn't being cis led me to master C#
Hey Canadians! Your taxes subsidize these big game companies and you should be furious about this.
Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 7mo agoUbisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after workers vote to unionize
Caroline Bem at UdeM and I were interviewed by @beurkeek.bsky.social for this episode of Random Encounters about the ongoing sexualized violence in games drama - it sounds really cool (cannot vouch because cannot German), check it out (if you can German!) insertmoin.de/random-encou...
Random Encounters: Sexualisierte Gewalt in Adult Games – Insert Moin
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Super cool perk of doing a doctorate is that mortgage lenders don't count t4a income as "income", great news for our double-SSHRC household trying to renew when 70% of our income apparently isn't real 💵 🫠
Hey labor-aligned folks in Canada - have you signed UVW's petition to reinstate the Canadian Rockstar workers unjustly fired for their union organizing efforts? Why not??? actionnetwork.org/letters/rein...
Reinstate Rockstar Toronto workers now!
On October 30th, three Rockstar Toronto employees were fired with immediate effect and without investigation. They were swept up in a brazen and ruthless union busting effort to terminate over 30 work...
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Edmonton Police Service just launched this pilot with their body cameras without approval from the Privacy Commissioner, to give you an idea of the institutional approach to adopting tech which violates Charter Rights.
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 8mo agoFace recognition is too dangerous for police use and undermines individual privacy. That's why Axon's new test integrating this tech into body-worn cameras is such an alarming development. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com
Canada cancelled its northern food program over the summer and is refusing to answer APTN’s requests for why. Canada continues to Canada…
‘Having a hard time getting food’: Nunavut hunger crisis continues
‘People are having a hard time now getting food’: Nunavut hunger crisis continues as Indigenous Services Canada refuses to answer questions
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