Writer, researcher, designer and entrepreneur Brenda Laurel started in theater, moved to videogames and then virtual reality, and ended up as an academic. This mini-episode, based on the full-length interview….
A couple of months ago, my fellow K-Squid programmer, Debra Sloss, asked me to help with an episode of her show, State of Mind. She’d received some beautiful, thoughtful pieces….
Near the end of my recent interview with Brenda Laurel, she talks about the responsibility of content creators in our current world. “What we can do, what I hope we….
In this conversation with Brenda Laurel, we explore how girls play and what that means for women and game designers. We talk about the relationship between theater and gaming, and how the gaming world grew to change the way children live and develop. We talk about the importance of teaching. But most of all, we talk about what it means to be a creator in this world, someone who asks others to entrust their minds to our work.
This is a Minibabble, just me talking to you. I’m struggling this week. As a woman. As a person who values decency. As a mother. As an educated person. As….
I was driving in my car to a rehearsal. Michelle Obama’s speech had been playing on the radio when I started the car and so I kept listening. It was….
“Every time I danced, I thought about the gratitude I had to move my body when simultaneously my mother was bound to a wheelchair. It shifted my perspective on the gift of life.”….
How do we talk to people on the other side of the political divide? It used to be commonplace—Americans lived, worked, and went to school with people from a mixture….
How do you talk to people you don’t agree with so that you can continue the conversation? Karin Tamerius was passionate about politics as a young person, but she also….
In this “quick bite” episode of The Babblery, seven women talk about their lives as gifted girls and their work helping other gifted girls and women thrive.
