Talking out of both sides of your face: Discursive duality in the actual play gaming space
By Steven Dashiell Tabletop role playing games (TRPGs) have been around for over a half century but have experienced something…
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Cooking Through The Climate Crisis: Book Review of C. Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey
By David Sutton A number of scholars in Anthropology and related disciplines have posed the question “What is the Future…
Are You Having a Good Time? Abuse, Bad Jokes & Making Light of Gender-Based Violence in 2024
By Emma Louise Backe In year marked by monumental legal cases against abusive men—Gisèle Pelicot in France, Cassie’s lawsuit against…
Savannah Mandel Tells Us How to Go to Space
President Kennedy ended his 1962 speech at Rice University, the one made famous by the line “We choose to go to the…
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Planet of the Apes, Animalization and the Visual Politics of Occupation
By Emma Louise Backe When War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) concluded, Caesar had successfully led his people…
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