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Lip syncing for your life may be the end of the road for some queens, but tonight, it's going to be the start of a celebration.As a community of artists, designers, & creators, we value & support inclusion & diversity, especially in industries that notoriously marginalize certain groups. Gaming is a popular outlet for people to express their creativity, & most importantly, be themselves.
Join us as we host a panel of members from the LGBTQ community as they discuss the importance of diversity in gaming, ranging from working behind the scenes in studios, designing games that are inclusive of all people, & streaming gameplay on public platforms.
Naomi Clark, NYU Game Center
Naomi Clark is an independent game designer & a professor at the NYU Game Center, where she teaches game design, player research, & tabletop roleplaying. Naomi has contributed to over three dozen games since 1999, including early multiplayer online games, digital brick-building tools & web games for LEGO, mobile simulation games, conference games & many more. Naomi wrote about games & feminism for several years at Feministe, then co-authored a textbook titled A Game Design Vocabulary with Anna Anthropy. Outside of games, Naomi helped found the Sylvia Rivera Law Project collective in 2002, & contributed to Brooklyn's queer country music scene as a drummer for bands such as The Low & the Lonesome & the Invert Family Singers. Naomi's most recent projects are Consentacle, a two-player cooperative card game about an intimate encounter between a human & an alien, & Lacerunner, a retheme of a cyberpunk card game set amidst 19th century class struggles.
More panelists TBA.
We will have a special performance by Blvck La D.
Let's kick off Pride week & the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City with a night of drag queens, games, & fun!
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