Alexandersson documents her personal journey as a student-turned-teacher in games education through the discovery of feminist pedagogy.
...Critical Reflection
Always radical, always engaged, always personal. Either scholarly or polemic writing that engages with feminist visual culture and feminist theory and history from a contemporary perspective. Our authors provide ground for reassessment of existing paradigms or subversive recuperation and reinterpretation.
Exploring the tensions of acting as both subject and object of games education, the article discusses teaching from a queer perspective.
...Inspired by reactions to the abortion scene in Audrey Diwan’s film, Kearney looks at the value of this narrative for current political debates.
...Discussing curriculum development of a games studies course, Jones calls for increased in-class peer learning to enhance accessibility.
...The authors share how using larp in teaching critical studies can uncover the challenges faced in institutional academic settings.
...Ruzanka demonstrates how class application of feminist practice of care can encourage students to push boundaries in their game design.
...When classrooms have become ideological battlegrounds, the authors devise an inclusive games design pedagogy using crafting as their method.
...This case study illustrates how game jams and participatory teaching serve as a feminist pedagogy to support active learning and citizenship.
...In her confessional article, Louise-Clarke asks a critical question: What kinds of narratives might best express the inner worlds of mothers?
...Yolaç offers a practical teaching toolkit to help game design instructors implement an inclusive and transformative feminist pedagogy.
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WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey