After a lot of prep, planning, and organization – The Border House is now up and running! This blog, spearheaded by myself, Brinstar from Acid for Blood, and Alex from While !Finished – is a progressive, liberal, feminist gaming/virtual world and social media blog.
“The Border House” is a reference to Funcom’s point-and-click adventure game, The Longest Journey. The game deals with gay characters in a progressive and positive way, and the Border House is a fictional apartment within the game owned by a gay couple. The idea of living on the edge of a cultural border, of crossing and breaking borders – that’s what we are about here.
The Border House is a blog that celebrates diversity in gaming from a wide variety of cultural angles. We aim to be a friendly space for women, feminists, people of color, gay, lesbian, transgender individuals, those with disabilities, and any other marginalized group and their allies to read news and opinion on and discuss video games, MMORPGs, virtual worlds, and social media. Our goal is to provide up to date relevant news and opinion journalism without cultural bias and using a feminist lens.
I realize not all of my readers will have interest in this, but there are quite a few of you out there who are. I expect to spend a lot of my blogging time over there now, so please add to your RSS reader and join in on the conversation. We have over 20 contributors right now, but we’d take more from passionate writers who are interested in blogging for us. Contact editors at borderhouseblog.com to join the fun!
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Tami Baribeau is the Associate Producer for Metaplace, Inc, currently working on Island Life. She is also the Lead Editor of feminist gaming blog The Border House, and the National Facebook Games Examiner for Examiner.com. She can be reached on Twitter or by email.
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Congratulations and the best of luck! I look forward to contributing where I can.. if I can.
congrats! Looking forward to reading it!
Very interesting blog. More postings to come.
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