Bayonetta: Innovative Advertising or Sexual Harassment Training?

May 18, 2010

Created for and originally posted at Bitch Magazine’s Mad World Virtual Symposium The widely popular video game Bayonetta has had an advertising campaign that matches the on screen sexism of the game itself.  In Tokyo a large billboard in the subway invited passersby to literally strip off  flyers to reveal Bayonetta naked underneath.  The campaign [...]

The First Canadian Video Game Awards

May 6, 2010

[tweetmeme]Yesterday may have been the first Canadian Video Game Awards but I doubt they are the first instance of overt sexism in the Canadian video game industry. Last night I attended the first Canadian video game awards and minus the bad dialogue, the sexist jokes and the glorified “booth babes” as stage candy it wasn’t [...]

WAM! 2010 Video and Playlist

March 26, 2010

I had such a fantastic time presenting at Women, Action and Media (WAM) in Los Angeles on March 25th, 2010.  I curated a show of online videos including remixes, vlogs, vids and short documentaries made by women.  Staying true with WAM‘s mission, these videos represent women taking action through media to talk about issues important [...]

Remix: Too Many Dicks

March 23, 2010

This remix was inspired by Sloane’s “Star Trek Dance Floor“ It is no secret that most video games star overly muscular men often carrying big swords, guns, baseball bats, chainsaws and other phallic weaponry. Many of these games normalize a macho masculinity and glorify war and the military.  They especially celebrate grotesque displays of violence. [...]