Veve Jaffa
@gutter__squidVeve Jaffa is a bioluminescent creator of filmic and digital worlds, queering canon one beloved cis-heteronormative narrative at a time.
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Pieces
Welcome to Virtual Reality: Valid Identification Required
While you’re exploring virtual reality, Facebook is exploring you.
Twitter’s New Verification Process is a Game Rigged Against Its Marginalized Users
Verification fragments an open platform based on social hierarchy and provides rewards and treatment accordingly.
Downloadable Diversity: How AAA Games Monetize Minority Representation
Diverse characters and storylines are often withheld from games to be sold as optional add-ons for additional cost.
The Myth of The Indie Game Success Story Needs to Stop and Here’s Why
The high visibility of indie success stories creates the illusion that commercial success is accessible and achievable by all, disregarding the challenges most indie developers face.
GDC, Assimilation and Opportunity: What A Free Event Ticket Costs When You’re A Marginalized Developer
As the majority of marginalized developers risk financial stability to attend industry events, our primary goal, too, goes ignored: building the resources and capital to finance our work.
Ohmygod Are You Going To Be Alright? An Interview on Passion, Perseverance and Hope for the Future with Anna Anthropy
"I don't know if I believe in passion. Passion is the thing that lets us overlook how badly we're hurting."
Intel at IndieCade: The Cost of Diversity in Games
Marginalized developers suffer from an industry-wide epidemic that withholds basic income from hard-working artists for the dubious privilege of exposure. But despite popular belief, we are not in dire need of exposure, petty consolations, or a tent on the outskirts of a major industry event.
