Events

In his talk, Nick Taylor reports on an exploratory study he carried out with women and non-binary games industry workers, learning about the work they do to keep themselves and each other safe – from burnout, viruses, harassment – at games industry and game culture conventions such as the Game Developers Conference, the Montreal International Games Summit, and the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Such events are crucial to the reproduction of the games industry and its persistent politics of exclusion, and yet are relatively undocumented. He shows how much of the ‘care tactics’ these participants undertake can be understood in terms of techniques for storage and containment, thus situating their work within both recent pop cultural problematizations of gendered mobility (“it’s got pockets!”) as well as theoretical accounts of “container technologies” and their politics.