Episode #3: Revenge of the Return of the Queers With Beers

Queers With Beers

Callout culture and indie games feature in this month’s episode of QWB.

https://queerswithbeers.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/ep3_final1.mp3

Download Episode #3 – 0:36:19 – 33.2 MB

Show Breakdown (Please note, here there be spoilers.)

• 0:00:00 – Intro
• 0:02:22 – What are we drinking?
• 0:07:23 – Queer Segment: Callout culture in online social justice circles – How is it harmful? How can it be reclaimed (or is it even worth reclaiming)?
• 0:23:51 – Nerdy segment: Setting in Gaming – What is the role of setting in shaping narrative? How can a game engage in pertinent political commentary (in particular, critiques of capitalism) without bogging down the player or losing its message?
• 0:32:18 – Outro

Links

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, You Left Out the Part About… (On race in X-Men First: Class)
• Diandra Jurkic-Walls, Are You FOR REAL?
• s. e. smith, Internet: It’s Time Talk.
• Lisa Harney, The Culture of Internet Call Outs
• Race, Privilege, Identity gathering page
• The Cat and the Coup
• Great interview with The Cat and the Coup designer, Peter Brinson, on the the Experience Points Podcast.

Musical Numbers

• Intro – Kiff’On, “Presse People”
• Interstitial Music – Kiff’On, “Funky Teuf”
• Geek Segment Intro – Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts I – 9
• Geek Segment Outro – Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts IV – 36
• Outro – Kiff’On, “Kung-Fu Funk”

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