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Thank you for the links and info!
-Hawke

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 03:17:22 -0500
"M. Alan Thomas II" <m.alan.thomas.ii@gmail.com> wrote:

> A quick addendum:
>
> The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), which is one of the
> premiere anti-censorship, anti-moral-panic organizations in the U.S.
> today, published a quick retrospective on our old foe Thomas Radecki,
> "*Looking Back at a 1980s Anti-Comics and RPG Crusader's Campaign*."
> http://cbldf.org/2016/08/looking-back-at-a-1980s-anti-
> comics-and-rpg-crusaders-campaign/
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:40 PM, M. Alan Thomas II <
> m.alan.thomas.ii@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Links and news I've spotted over the last few weeks:
> >
> > The Facebook group *League of Librarian Gamers*, which is
> > affiliated with and supported by the American Library Association's
> > Games and Gaming Roundtable, has a variety of interesting
> > discussions that might, on occasion, overlap with our interests. If
> > you are a librarian or "the library-adjacent" (including educators
> > &c.), you might want to drop by see if it's your sort of thing:
> > https://www.facebook.com/group s/LeagueOfLibrarianGamers/
> >
> > *International Games Day at your Library* (http://igd.ala.org/)
> > also has a Facebook group. If your local public library doesn't
> > celebrate Games Day, why not? If they do, are there tabletop RPGs
> > on offer? If not, would you be interested in running one? Talk to
> > them about it! https://www.facebook.com/internationalgamesday/ and
> >
> > On a similar note, there's a Facebook group I don't know much about
> > called "M*en Ending Slurs and Sexist Attitudes in the Gaming
> > Environment*" (or "The MESSAGE" for short). Given CAR-PGa's
> > longstanding feminist policy position, this might also be of
> > interest:
> > https://www.facebook .com/Men-Ending-Slurs-and-Sexist-Attitudes-in-the-Gaming
> > -Environment-258542624266218/
> >
> > Via the latter source, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation piece:
> > "*Wizard-filled quests of D&D empower Prince Rupert B.C. girls*."
> > Of note is the second paragraph: "Weekly Dungeons and Dragons
> > gatherings have attracted up to 100 young gamers at a time, and the
> > girls outnumber the boys these days."
> > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/girls-dungeon
> > s-and-dragons-wizards-1.3717582 (The full version is an audio
> > report available at the link)
> >
> > The latter source also shared a link to a survey on "*Women's
> > Experiences in the Table Top Gaming Community*," but it appears to
> > be (temporarily?) closed: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9P6Z3FC
> >
> > Several sources have reported on the link between the
> > critically-acclaimed, hit Netflix show *Stranger Things* and
> > D&D—some of which will are linked to from the following article—and
> > at least one has posited that knowledge of D&D could help in the
> > quest to understand the season finale:
> > http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Dungeons-Dragons-
> > Theory-About-Stranger-Things-42199709 (I'm attaching a PDF, but the
> > original has a GIF, so it's not a perfect record.)
> >
> > *Table Titans* has published a nice anecdote from one of its readers
> > discussing how a D&D game helped teach two kids about being
> > considerate of others and consequences (or at least that's my
> > reading of it): http://tabletitans.com/tales/post/sibling-rivalry
> >
> > *Vitalina Batsarashkina* wore multiple pieces of videogame RPG
> > paraphernalia when competing in women's 10 meter pistol at the
> > Olympics. She got a silver medal. Everyone thought this was neat.
> > http://www.gamespot.com/articles/an-olympic-athlete-wo
> > re-witcher-gear-during-compet/1100-6442587/
> >
> > —M. Alan Thomas II
> >
>



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