Happy Wednesday, gamer friends! This week, I’m writing from the road. Alas, I’m not off to GenCon. I’m sitting a lovely hotel in Syracuse, NY on my way to Niagara Falls. This week’s game goodness is bursting at the seams, so let’s jump right in. #buygamesbywomen at GenCon (and beyond) Feeding your need for hashtag activism,…
Did You Love Your Barbie? A Conversation
Welcome to WWAC Game Section’s summer Barbie series. These months are often the time that children are free from commitments, away from their friends, and ready to let their imaginations take over. For many of us that meant playing with Barbies, and over the next few weeks you’ll see the many different ways Barbies affected…
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Quest For A Perfect Doll
They say parents willingly fill up kids’ rooms with toys that Mom and Dad missed in their own childhood. It is probably true for me. I have a three-month-old girl, and I can’t wait for when she will be big enough for our first visit to a toy store. In the meantime, I stroll around…
Book That Shaped Me: Little House in the Big Woods
I honestly can’t remember a time when Laura Ingalls wasn’t as familiar to me as I was to myself. I don’t remember the first time I read her books, and I can’t recall the first time they were read to me: I only know that there was never a time I didn’t know her name…
Ghost World: To Avoid Growing Up, Buy More Stuff
Ghost World Daniel Clowes Fantagraphics Books 1997 Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World is about clinging to a stage of life that is fading from existence. The teenaged lives that Enid and Rebecca have lead are over. Floating from home to the diner to stores and back to home without purpose, they continue to behave as though…
