Sexuality
84. Jon Cole
Larpwright and sex educator Jon Cole on teaching with larp, designing in collaboration, and creating space for Real Talk.
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33. Caitlynn Belle
Designer Caitlynn Belle joins Alex to talk about creating, refining, mentoring and problem solving. But more importantly: dying in space and bug sex.
32. Emily Care Boss
Designer and theorist Emily Care Boss joins us this episode to talk Living Games, loving games, and being vulnerable in play. Can role-playing be therapeutic? How do we unite disparate gaming communities? What larp-adjacent practices can we learn from? What’s physi-ing??? You’ll have to tune in to find out!
The Romance Trilogy
Emily’s Website
Swords Without Master
Questlandia
Knutepunkt
New England Interactive Literature
New World Magischola
Living Games
27. D. Vincent and Meguey Baker
To celebrate one year of Backstory, Alex brings on indie legends and Apocalypse World co-creators Meguey and D. Vincent Baker. Topics range from sex education to censorship to masonic initiation ceremonies and quilt preservation – and yes, it’s all related to game design.
25. Mo Turkington
Larpwright and publisher Mo Turkington on larping theatrically, embodiment and immersion, and “the unbearable weight of representation.”
16. Jacqueline Bryk
Is Pokemon Go a larp? What’s the difference between torturing your characters and torturing your players? Can game design help you conquer your fears – or just spread them around a little? Larpwright Jacqueline Bryk is here to pose all these questions and many more. We may answer a few of them, too.
15. Kat Jones
Larpwright and theorist Katherine Castiello Jones talks sexuality, intimacy, feminism and other hot topics in game design. Can a game about painting your nails make a point about intersecting axes of oppression? We certainly think so.
12. Kira Magrann
Can games unite the mystical and the digital? Writer, game designer, and cyberwitch Kira Magrann is here to talk magic, technology, and her new digital zine, RESISTOR.
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RESISTOR
A Cyborg Manifesto
Eliza Gauger’s Problem Glyphs
The Witch (2016)
Aleister Crowley
Meg Baker on Rituals in Play
Mad About the Boy
Origins Game Fair
Vampire: The Masquerade
White Wolf
Strict Machine, in the Indie Mixtape Megamix
Mistress Matissse
Blue Rose
Just a Little Lovin’
I Say a Little Prayer
Night Witches
Coming Out Under Fire
Daughters of Bilitis
The War Birds Anthology