Home

Advertisement

Kynn's LJ [entries|archive|friends|userinfo]
Kynn

[ website | kynn.com ]
[ userinfo | livejournal userinfo ]
[ archive | journal archive ]

dice, roleplaying games, and accessibility [Nov. 11th, 2009|12:44 pm]
My second post in the Accessibility and Tabletop Gaming series is up today, and this one is about the accessibility of dice.
Link1 comment|Leave a comment

accessibility and tabletop gaming: first post [Nov. 10th, 2009|10:37 pm]
Here's my first post on Dazed (save ends) about the accessibility of roleplaying games by people with various disabilities. I don't think accessibility issues have been talked about much yet in the gaming community, and they bears some examination.

My own games, I know, have serious accessibility problems that I'll be talking about in future posts on this topic.
Link1 comment|Leave a comment

i'll get right on that [Nov. 10th, 2009|09:05 pm]
So the response from the University of Arizona's Dean of Students office -- regarding my suggestion to rename "Ask a Tranny Anything" to "LIVE NUDE SHEMALE COCK ON DISPLAY" -- was to invite me to work on this next year:

Kynn,

Thank you for the additional feedback. I will definitely share it with the planning team. I know that this will be a concern that we will continue to talk about. Given your clear passion for the topic, I would love to invite you to be part of the planning team for next year. Please consider it. Again, we need all the help and support we can get!

Talk to you soon,

Jennifer Hoefle
Program Director for LGBTQ Affairs
Student Union, Room 404


Somehow, I think she's not taking my suggestion very seriously.

(Meanwhile: Wouldn't you love to have an office numbered 404? I'd totally take down the sign on the door.)
Link2 comments|Leave a comment

echoes [Nov. 10th, 2009|03:14 pm]
In this thread about disabilities on [info]no_pity I hear similar arguments as given in the opposition to the term "cis."

This can also be a problem within the disabled community, as we can too often lose focus of who we are without focusing on our oppression by able-bodied individuals. Instead of defining our group experience around the oppression we've faced (and note that I am not at all denying that oppression exists), it might be healthier to focus on who we are. In that light, I'd like to explore who we, the disabled, are in terms of where our limits come from, instead of who our oppressors are.

To be disabled means that most of our limits are bodily: whether physical, mental, or emotional.

It seems to me that when you start saying stuff like this:

I see two advantages to thinking about disability this way. The first is that it offers us an identity without making able-bodied people into a THEM. The second is that it gives us a way to relate to non-disabled people: they are people whose limits come primarily from without instead of from within (for example, from society, class, gender, finances, etc.).

...you've already moved into the grounds of making the oppressor, majority folks' feelings more important than anything else, by normalizing them (which society already does anyway).

Also, defining people with disabilities by their limits rather than how society responds to those limits seems even more dehumanizing to me.
LinkLeave a comment

imperius rex! [Nov. 10th, 2009|01:31 pm]
The Avenging Son does not like bukkake:

Namor the Submariner

More in this review of Marvel's swimsuit editions from the 1990s.
Link3 comments|Leave a comment

navigation
[ viewing | most recent entries ]
[ go | earlier ]

Advertisement