Intersectional Tech

By Kishonna L. Gray,

Book cover of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming

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In Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming, Kishonna L. Gray interrogates blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of the concurrent, seemingly unrelated events of Gamergate and the Black Lives Matter movement, Gray highlights the inescapable chains that…

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1 author picked Intersectional Tech as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I always love to read books that do something or cover things that I’ll never be able to do on my own, and Gray crushes that in this book.

Through an awesome set of interviews with players, Gray breaks down how Black users encounter racism in gaming spaces and how they deal with the ongoing structural problems in games. Gray gives voice to perspectives that aren’t heard enough, and I learned a ton from this book.

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