This week, my students are finishing up projects, which I hope to post this week as they are turned in and presented to the class. In the meantime, I've been further developing ideas for the next unit, which will start in November! One extremely timely resource, given the Gamer Gate backlash, is this amazing series of videos by Anita Sarkeesian. As a gamer herself, she provides an important feminist analysis of the video gaming industry. Unfortunately, as a result, she has had to cancel public speaking engagements as a result of serious death threats. I'm going to include excerpts of this series in the upcoming unit, specifically the first few minutes of the first video on women as background decoration. In it, she introduces and applies Martha Nussbaum's theory of objectivity, which I plan to teach my students, perhaps using more understandable language.
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