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I’m the creator of the award-winning Tropes vs Women in Video Games, a critically acclaimed video series exploring the history of women’s representation in gaming that has garnered nearly 14 million views on YouTube alone. My work as a media critic, public speaker, and producer who thrives at the intersection of digital culture, accessibility, and social justice helped create a new lexicon and sparked a paradigm-shifting conversation about improving the representations of marginalized people in video games. This work has propelled me into the international spotlight in the fight for an end to online harassment and all forms of toxic online behaviour.
I care deeply about justice and that drive takes me in all sorts of directions, whether it’s hosting a podcast about feminism and popular culture, creating a video series about fascinating historical women who must not be forgotten, or creating an emotional support hotline for the gaming community. But at the core of everything I do is the desire to dismantle the social, economic and political barriers that put all women at a disadvantage.
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Whether it’s speaking at your next conference, consulting at your game studio, or hosting a brand new series, I bring over a decade of experience to the table.
History vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don't Want You To Know
Looking through the ages and across the globe, my co-author Ebony Adams and I have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable women who dared to defy history and change the world around them. From Mongolian wrestlers to Chinese pirates, Native American ballerinas to Egyptian scientists, Japanese novelists to British Prime Ministers, History vs Women will reframe the history that you thought you knew.
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