Below are resources mentioned and suggested within Anita Sarkeesian’s 2023 “Your DEI Initiatives are Making Your Culture Worse” talk. The Culture Shift Help Desk is a consultation service for those in the games industry and in gaming communities who are trying to bring a liberatory and transformative way of thinking towards addressing harm, abuse, and… Keep reading “Your DEI Initiatives are Making Your Culture Worse Talk Resource List”
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Online Safety Policy Recommendations for Game Studios
Online harassment is an all-too-common strategy used by bad actors online to silence and dehumanize people online. In the games industry, we often see online abuse tactics used against employees at studios and companies when some parts of their audience or player base are upset about an aspect of a game or other communications from… Keep reading “Online Safety Policy Recommendations for Game Studios”
2021 Impact Report
In August 2020 we launched the Games and Online Harassment Hotline with the hope to provide a compassionate and culturally specific emotional support to people who make or play games. Since then, we’ve been supporting folks all across games on a wide swath of issues: in-game harassment, industry workplace environments, online harassment and threats, community… Keep reading “2021 Impact Report”