Katie’s Reviews > The Privilege of Play: A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture > Status Update

“People of color shoulder the burden of embodying diversity, doing the work that others should. An individualistic perspectives naively neglects the power of networks, ideas, and labor involved in producing hobby games.”

We don’t need to be reintroduced to the same concepts as if they’ve never been touched on before, eg geek masculinity

Need to look up Sarah Banet-Weiser

The author hasn’t in fact provided much evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, for the reason behind the decrease in women contributors to Alarums and Excursions … the Damsel and Courtesan characters aren’t enough …

I’m sympathetic to the close reading here but I think it goes beyond its bounds. The author keeps forgetting others at the margins … race in one breath and then only Black people in the other. Why the inconsistency, especially when talking about WW2 and Nazism?

Also, I hate when people write "this chapter does xyz" and "this book aims to do xyz" -- don't defer to objects, take responsibility!

The map visualizations don't work on ebook :( I can see the maps but they all look the same, B&W only ... I assume important information presented in colour was lost in the grayscaling process.

"Ideological" vs "structural" white supremacy 🤔

Oh yes, let's look at the editors *rubs hands eagerly*

"/Gettysburg/ allowed them to play 'armchair general' and speculate on histories that never were."