For another discussion list I’m on I pulled together a collection of links around many of the title’s topics and more. This is not an exhaustive list nor in any particular order but just a sampling of the things referenced over the past month in case you want some primers on the subject and to understand why some of us are all fired up.
Note: Please practice self-care, please make your own personal choices on when and where to speak up, and please note much of the below should have trigger warnings splattered all over them so go to each one with care (as I didn’t have time to throughly describe each one).
- Guides on how to help from Leigh Alexander: http://bit.ly/1rCW47E and Mattie Brice: http://bit.ly/1tED7PZ
- The Quick Indie Guide To Protecting Your Accounts: http://bit.ly/1sCwn32
- Two-Factor Auth List: http://bit.ly/1plyx4W
- Elizabeth Sampat’s “The Truth About Zoe Quinn”: http://bit.ly/1nGk8QV
- Develop Online on the Phil Fish doxxing (which also got kudos for ‘massively pairing down the worst’ and moderating comments): http://bit.ly/1r69g4b and Polygon’s article: http://bit.ly/1ph1ApY
- We can be better: http://bit.ly/1p3NJEP
- Zoe’s Patreon: http://bit.ly/1saEQzW
- Purdue OWL: Logic in Argumentative Writing – logical fallacies: http://bit.ly/1o94T3F (Hat tip to Cat for this one :>)
- An interesting graphic that will tell you which game devs/companies to (not) support: https://t.co/mc2tGiWryX
- Elizabeth Simins Patreon: http://bit.ly/1p3O6PJ (Creator of Gaming’s Feminist Illuminati t-shirts, prints, etc.)
- An interesting graphic that will tell you what press houses/journalists to (not) support: https://twitter.com/Matterless/status/505104685389606912/photo/1
- Amanda Hess’s Why Women Aren’t Welcome On The Internet – A must read in my opinion: http://bit.ly/1qxhQHv
- Tadhg Kelly’s “The Sorry State Of Gaming’s Truthers And Their #GamerGate”: http://ubm.io/1rj6icn
- Corvus Elrod’s “objective” review of Redshirt: http://bit.ly/1qcZOM4 –THIS MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD – One of the best things I saw in that very trying week
- Losing our voices – Kris Graft/Gamasutra: http://ubm.io/1lLQBdA
- Jenn Frank’s Patreon: http://bit.ly/1txjBH7
- Storify of Brett Douville’s amazing and successful attempt to engage a single, seemingly troll-like person in the #GamerGate camp: http://bit.ly/WpSqRz –This man is a freaking saint.
- Greg Costikyan’s Gamersgate: STFU –Warning potentially NSFW as it’s Greg – plenty of F’bombs: http://bit.ly/WFOfRo
- Jenn Frank’s piece on her leaving the industry as a games journalist and author: http://bit.ly/1qHOlEf –Here’s an example of one of Jenn’s pieces that is making many people sad she’s leaving: http://bit.ly/1mm64kO and possibly her last piece in The Guardian: http://bit.ly/1pA8kp4
- TIME’s piece on how there’s no comparing male and female harassment online: http://ti.me/ZioUiv [“For girls and women, harassment is not just about “un-pleasantries.” It’s often about men asserting dominance, silencing, and frequently, scaring and punishing them.”]
- Kotaku article on the bomb threat sent to GDC/Anita to get them to take away her Ambassador Award: http://bit.ly/1uIRSn9
- Article on the FBI’s investigation of Anita’s death threats: http://bit.ly/1r2tTwL
- The Mary Sue on the “Factual Feminist’s” video telling us to ‘stand down’ on criticizing video games: http://bit.ly/1r0wPLC [It may be good self-care to not watch the video or read the article but it’s here for you to choose.]
- Donating to Fem Freq’s non-profit: http://bit.ly/1AV1Z8k
- David Hall’s amazing amazing piece on GamerGate as a former journo/current dev and why the reasonable people aren’t being taken seriously: http://bit.ly/1yi46XR
- The Open letter to the game community: http://bit.ly/1Dnez4n
- Deirdra Kiai’s game where you can destroy video games: http://t.co/HWvFtiPBCL
- Saints Row dev says ‘they can do better”: http://bit.ly/1vG01ue
- Why victims shouldn’t ‘laugh it off’: http://thebea.st/1trkN00
- Brett Douville on GG: http://bit.ly/Xv1YLp
- Leigh Alexander’s piece on losing the video game culture war in TIME: http://ti.me/1plzFpe
- The storify someone put together of Zoe’s tweets/images debunking GamerGate – not for the faint of heart: http://bit.ly/1uj4mQ2
- Pantene’s #ShineStrong video – just because: http://bit.ly/N5zd3B
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Video Games Are For Everybody: http://bit.ly/1r6flNX
- Hunted Mammoth “Zoe Quinn’s screenshots of 4chan’s dirty tricks were just the appetizer. Here’s the first course of the dinner, directly from the IRC log” — http://bit.ly/1uj5F1j –DEFINITELY NSFW; TRIGGER WARNING
- The New Yorker covering ZQ’s DQ: http://nyr.kr/1o99ZNs
- “To fair-minded proponents of #GamerGate:” — Polite, thoughtful, interesting read of someone trying to talk to the GG folks: http://bit.ly/1r6fQHG
- How Internet Hate Mobs Work: http://bit.ly/1mlkoKz
And although it can’t outweigh all the bad – here is Daily Kitten: http://bit.ly/Y4I37f and Daily Puppy: http://bit.ly/1nizfAk