August is #RPGaDay month. Seeing that there are several different prompts for every day, and Twitter isn’t the best platform for the length in which I wanted to write, I decided to write my posts to my blog. And instead of writing 31 individual posts for each day, I decided to do them in weekly blasts, starting with this post for days 1 to 7.
Carrying it With You: Masculinity, Grief, and Table-Top Role-Playing in Disney/Pixar’s Onward
19 Sunday Jul 2020
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A short reflection on Disney/Pixar’s 2020 film Onward, and its treatment of masculinity and the expression of grief.
How Speculating about Beethoven’s Race Misses the Point
23 Tuesday Jun 2020
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Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black, Black History, Epistemic Injustice, Heuristic Injustice, Ludwig van Beethoven, Nadine Gordimer
My response to a recent article on Classic FM’s web site about a Twitter discussion on the possibility of Ludwig van Beethoven being Black, and the epistemic injustices that this discussion exposes.
Comrades: a Revolutionary RPG by W.M. Akers
22 Monday Jun 2020
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Comrades: a Revolutionary RPG, Powered by the Apocalypse, Table-Top Roleplaying Games, W.M. Akers
Some reflections on Comrades, a table-top role-playing game about revolutions by W.M. Akers, and why I want to play the game in today’s political climate.
What Does it Mean to Have a ‘Conversation’ about Empire?
09 Tuesday Jun 2020
Some reflections on a recent BBC Radio 4 interview about the need to ‘have conversations about empire’, and what the terms of such ‘conversations’ mean.
The Difficulty of Being Different
10 Thursday Oct 2019
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Reflections on being diagnosed as neurodiverse as an adult, and why we need to emphasise the challenges faced by neurodiverse people in addition to celebrating their achievements.
The Uncritical Whiteness of Edinburgh Activism
01 Sunday Sep 2019
A brief look at the Stop the Coup protests in Edinburgh and the lack of representation of migrant and other precarious voices
Back on Stage at the Edinburgh Fringe
02 Friday Aug 2019
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Performing with Adventurers Wanted for their 2019 Fringe show, Banishment
A Natural 20 Performance: When a Dungeons & Dragons Session Becomes Sheer Brilliance
20 Wednesday Feb 2019
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A recap of a recnet D&D session in which we went very much off the rails and parodied Star Wars and Star Wars fandom alike, in a story that truly exemplified performative sympoesis.
A Year of Volunteering in the Mental Health Sector
09 Wednesday Jan 2019
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It has been roughly a year since I started volunteering at a mental health charity. This is a reflection on what motivated me to do so, and how these motivations have developed over the course of the past year.