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Reflections on my experiences in my viva, what I learnt from it, and what I wish I had known so I could feel more reassured going in.
Candlekeep and the Politics of Knowledge
19 Monday Apr 2021
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Reflections on the new Dungeons & Dragons adventure supplement ‘Candlekeep Mysteries’ and the politics and commodification of knowledge in institutions of higher learning
How the Pokémon Franchise Portrays Academia
27 Saturday Feb 2021
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise, I reflected briefly on how the game design foregrounds academia and the pursuit of knowledge
What Table-Top Gaming Taught Me About Teaching
20 Friday Nov 2020
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bell hooks, D. Vincent Baker, Meguey Baker, Powered by the Apocalypse, Table-Top Roleplaying Games, Teaching
A reflection on how some aspects of contemporary play culture in table-top role-playing can be valuable practices for pedagogy
#RPGaDay2020: Days 1 to 7
01 Saturday Aug 2020
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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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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.