Episode 4: Skewed Images

Trigger Warnings:
Surgery
Ostracization
Homophobia
Transphobia
Violence towards people of the LGBT community
Hypermasculinity

~Please be a responsible listener.~

In this second installment of our gender and sexuality mini-series, we continue the conversation about LGBTQ+ representation in the media, touching upon About Ray and Stonewall on one hand, and Metroid, Deadpool, and Undertale on the other.

Spoiler alert: Disclosed are certain ending details of The Matrix series. And the New Testament.

If you didn't catch it, here's a recap of things we think you should go find: After hours specials on The Matrix at Cracked.com, meta, and Undertale, a retro-styled indy game that gives multiple paths towards victory. Notably, the game refers to the player with they/them pronouns and gives positive non-binary representation. According to Anne, it’s “fukn g9.”

To read more on women in the videogame industry and female gamers, check out https://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/why-all-gamers-matter/.

Get moar Klaus at http://thenicklauseffect.tumblr.com/.

Credits
Special Guest (G&S Specialist) : Klaus McHendry
Monologue : Kyle Mitchell
Sound Editing & Script : Cosmo Cavanaugh
Hosted by all the above, Anne Beaudoin, and Tracy

Music
“Stay” by Indi.
https://soundcloud.com/indycloud/stay

"Vintage Education" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Episode 3: The Reign of the Gender Binary

Trigger Warnings:
mutilations
suicide
surgery
ostracization
homophobia and transphobia
violence towards people of the LGBT community.
~Please be a responsible listener.~

You’ve all been waiting for it: The first part of our mini-series on gender and sexuality. We bring on blogger Klaus McHendry. From the get-go we deal with some heavy topics, including abuses against LGBTQ+ people, but stick with us because we talk about the pervasive gender binary. We also touch on Western imperialism and the question: which is better, bad representation or no representation?

Klaus has more to say at the thenicklauseffect.tumblr.com. Follow them; they’re awesome. Klaus will be coming back as we continue the gender and sexuality mini-series.

If you want to know more about two-spirit people, check out nativeout.com or the Center for Cross-Cultural Research at Western Washington University.

Credits
Special Guest (G&S Specialist) : Klaus McHendry
Monologue : Kyle Mitchell
Sound Editing & Script : Cosmo Cavanaugh
Hosted by: All the above, Anne Beaudoin, and Tracy

Music Credits
"Space 1990-B" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Arcadia" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Social Media
iTunes: goo.gl/bsW0Ab
YouTube: goo.gl/3qMdwm
Blog: goo.gl/3Y6NkO
Twitter: goo.gl/vM5HUD
SoundCloud: goo.gl/MjRcVt
Reddit: goo.gl/6CcA7l
Facebook: goo.gl/b0g3xA

© 2015 Geometric Octopus Some Rights Reserved