GamingtheSystem

Gaming The System - The Feminist Gaming Podcast

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The podcast where 3 intersectional feminists examine gaming and games through a feminist lens. New Episodes every Thursday. Alex, Jem and Matt believe gaming is good. Gaming is good for relaxation, for learning, for bringing people together and for your mental health. But like all media, there is both good and bad and we want to address how we make gaming a safe and healthy environment for women and minority groups (although lets not forget that people of colour are the global ethnic majority). We want to see the small steps towards an intersectional feminist future that have been made in...

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11 - Gaming Guilty Pleasures 18.03.2021 55:45

What games do you enjoy that you feel you shouldn't? As a feminist? As a gamer? As a person? The team reveal all. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Don...

10 - Non-Feminist Games We Just Can't Quit 11.03.2021 17:25

Time for a Confession Session. Our mandate is viewing gaming through a feminist lens but what are the games we love regardless of any problematic connotations they may have? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.co...

09 - Gaming and Mental Health 04.03.2021 1:01:52

Gaming is a source of joy for 100s of millions of people. How does gaming impact mental health? How can it help? How can it harm? How is mental illness portrayed in games? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com...

08 - Quizzing The System LvL 1 25.02.2021 26:52

Get your quizzing hats on for the inaugural Quizzing The System. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscribe & R...

07 - Esports and Women 18.02.2021 49:29

Why are there so few women in Esports? Where does the problem lie? With Esports or with women? There was also a slight technical hitch which made for an amusing post production repair. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patre...

06 - Console Wars 11.02.2021 11:40

Why are people so tribal about their choice of console and / or PC?? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscribe &am...

05 - Hypersexualisation of Women in Gaming 05.02.2021 1:00:43

PATREON ANNOUNCEMENT GTS now has a Patreon page! If you want to support us in our quest to create feminist gaming content, you can donate on this link. https://www.patreon.com/m/9741369/posts ----- Why do women continue to be hypersexualised in games? Why were they in the first place? Why does it matter? How do we change it? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky....

04 - When Gaming and Feminism Collide 30.01.2021 16:08

The team recount the first time gaming intersected with their Feminism. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscribe...

03 - Is Gaming for Everyone? 21.01.2021 45:56

In a discussion about the social aspects of gaming, and the concerns women have taking part in social games, the team talk about intersectionality, gatekeeping in games. Can games be intersectional? Should they be? And who are the gamers anyway? Who decided? You? Us?? Them??? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in t...

02 - Escapism, Isolation and Community 14.01.2021 16:55

PATREON ANNOUNCEMENT GTS now has a Patreon page! If you want to support us in our quest to create feminist gaming content, you can donate on this link. https://www.patreon.com/m/9741369/posts ----- A short until next week - many of think of gaming as an escape but do we want to escape into isolation or into a community? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social)...

01 - Gaming Through A Feminist Lens 09.01.2021 1:02:04

PATREON ANNOUNCEMENT GTS now has a Patreon page! If you want to support us in our quest to create feminist gaming content, you can donate on this link. https://www.patreon.com/m/9741369/posts ----- Gamers are increasingly diverse and intersectional, but are the games, characters and designers? Are attitudes keeping up? What does a feminist gamer play? Can we game the system? Join us while we explo...