Mae

When the Body says so: embodied ways of knowing for disability justice The Body is political, and embodied ways of knowing can provide a way of recognizing the corporeal realities of marginalized groups.

"It is time we acknowledge that embodied ways of knowing are not only valid: they are essential to the experience of justice for certain bodies."

Wrote a little something for international day of persons with disabilities - posting it here now in crip-time fashion 😌

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A team photo of Speculative Agency.

Hello! We're Speculative Agency, the team behind All Will Rise. We need YOUR help to make our narrative courtroom deck-builder about dead gods and taking billionaires to court. What can you do? Join us on our adventure here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

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Ungoblinification: the process of masking your inner goblin around others

I live for Mr. Blobby

Game designers, heads up: @nivakay.bsky.social is leading a very cool initiative to design a toolkit for sustainable futures aesthetics in games. What would you like to see in such a toolkit? Answer her survey, we'll be able to take your needs into account! auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A person in a canoe, photographed from behind. Around them are reeds and trees, all bathing in the same sunlight.

Finding peace and joy on the Frysian waters with my dad. One of the best days ever 🚣

Gisele Pelicot, Medical Misogyny and How Disabled People Face Increased Risk of Abuse Most of us have heard Gisele's story. It's a reminder that even men you trust can harm you. Did you know that she went to her doctors for help? A look at how medical misogyny contributed to her abuse.

This International Women’s Day I’m saying Merci Gisele. Her unwavering commitment to ensuring rape & abuse victims know that the shame is NOT theirs has inspired countless women to come forward & share their own stories.

Abuse, neglect & medical misogyny are serious issues we must address #IWD2025

2.Dh5 | Festival voor wereldversleutelaars The yearly 2.Dh5 festival returns to Ru Paré in Amsterdam for its nineteenth edition from March 1st and 2nd 2025. 2.Dh5 is an annual festival for the exchange of radical ideas, strategies…

Interesting event alert in Amsterdam coming March: Weaving Resistance in Times of Distress. Programme should be up soon, check it out!
www.2dh5.nl/en/

Got some really wonderful responses to this piece, I even joined a disability justice collective! Time to not only write about better futures, but to act as well 🌱

Post-activism, disability and collapse: how to fall apart together Disability can teach us how to live with collapse — a valuable lesson in a world where our systems continue to fail.

My first blog is up! Originally an essay for my Master, I wrote from my own embodied experience about the parallel between collapse in the body and collapse in society. What happens when we, as a society, learn to live with collapse and loss, instead of despite it?

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At the end of the road, in the midst of complexity and unpredictability, novel ways of existing can be found in those who already had to invent them. Whether it's by living with collapse itself, or navigating the difficult emotions around it, disability holds a wealth of untapped embodied knowledge.

Post-activism, disability and collapse: how to fall apart together Disability can teach us how to live with collapse — a valuable lesson in a world where our systems continue to fail.

My first blog is up! Originally an essay for my Master, I wrote from my own embodied experience about the parallel between collapse in the body and collapse in society. What happens when we, as a society, learn to live with collapse and loss, instead of despite it?

medium.com/@CollapseEnj...

Fighting for a better future is spiritual work — it may cost us everything if we pretend it isn’t The marriage of hypercapitalism and fascism is a global vampiric death force. A powerful life force has to meet it.

The marriage of hypercapitalism and fascism is a global vampiric death force. A powerful life force has to meet it. If we keep pretending the work we need to do isn't spiritual, it may cost us everything: anticiplay.medium.com/fighting-for...

Larp lessons: the art and politics of showing up What roles do you play in life, and more importantly, what roles and scenes do you forego because you feel out of your element in them? Can…

Society is a larp! Check out my blog on how live action role play can show you how to claim power, and how to resist other people's claims over you.

These are serious topics for serious times, but you CAN learn these deep skills from gaming. Show up!

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Ooh this looks incredible, I will definitely look into this! Thank you!

Purple and green dice on a notebook.

Look at these beauties I just got! I recently finished GM-ing my first ever ttrpg with a self-written narrative and it energized me so much. I'd love to dive into the art of being a game master more - does anybody have any recommendations? Videos? Books? Dos and don'ts? 🎲

Hi to any new followers! So excited to see Bluesky blossom. I'm Mae, and this is Gilly. I'm a sustainability researcher, though I am currently working on my personal sustainability. Even though I'm incredibly offline nowadays; if you like sporadic posts about anything, welcome to my little corner 😌

A blog about how I connect the three main themes I'm working on: resonant action, resonant imagination, and imagination infrastructures. Other people have found this conceptualisation useful, so I'm sharing it! Take a look! Link in first reply!

Unity and the destruction of imagination infrastructure Can we afford to have our collective imaginations be held hostage by profoundly short-sighted business decisions?

I wrote a piece about Unity's catastrophic fee announcement. How a business decision like this can be understood to be the destruction of vital societal imagination infrastructure. anticiplay.medium.com/unity-and-th...

Harnessing Regret I know this is a development newsletter, but stick with me for a moment, and let's please talk about an old friend I have had to discuss a lot with various clients over the last year: regret.

Regret is rarely a directly visible cause for issues at a studio, but unacknowledged it can lead to creative stagnation & loss of resources, process, motivation, focus, and/or direction. I've seen it too often, so while it might feel like a bit of a weird one, hear me out.

Spotted on my balcony - with more buds flowering soon!

Heart constellations: killing the capitalist god of loneliness How can loneliness be the starting point of social change? And how can games help?

What if we shared a controller and connected over the topic of loneliness in Death Stranding together? 😳
https://anticiplay.medium.com/heart-constellations-killing-the-capitalist-god-of-loneliness-97984b9fa27a

First ever pride this weekend and let me tell you it was ✨gay✨

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For people who are still sleeping on this artist: he voiced Measurehead in Disco Elysium and makes amazing music
https://open.spotify.com/track/2L1MgWewnKsCx9MKykjZJw?si=v9uVlnmxQE-CDg9LYkSBSA

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All Rise — a climate courthouse game: meet our new team members! Our game where you take fossil fuel companies and their friends to court has some exciting new team members!

Hi all! My name is Mae, and I'm the communications officer for Anticiplay :) In short, we're investigating how games can be designed to help realize more sustainable futures for all 🌱 In addition: we've started making our own climate courthouse game All Rise!
https://tinyurl.com/5354vzu6

Blog I may become a woman at some point, but I think I play with too much LEGO ( Bionicle kid ), videogames, puzzles etc. to be categorized as an adult yet. Purely informational: I am still transgender,...

My partner came out as a trans woman a couple of days ago and I cannot be more proud 💜 To anyone still searching for themselves, I just wanted to share her story here. You are amazing and you are loved!
https://sableknight.weebly.com/blog

New blog for Anticiplay! And no, I promise it's not the "X" you think 😌 @joostvervoort.bsky.social writes about combining wonder with difficult emotions as a (game) design principle 🎮