Kermit O
WRITER • EDUCATOR • DREAMER — Light brown. Unapologetically Black. Punches up. Writing a dreampunk novel about kids, trauma, and parallel worlds.

Uncharted 2 and the Burden of Awareness

October 15, 2009 • Gender and Sexuality, Media Criticism, Race and Ethnicity, Video Games

Once upon a time, I was able to just play video games and enjoy them. I didn’t see race, I didn’t see cultural issues, or gender issues, or anything. Games, after all, were my escape from such heady things. But now I can’t help but notice them. There is hardly a movie or a game or a book where I’m not looking for and easily spotting a slew of cultural insensitivities and outright offenses that can only be attributed to the obliviousness or indifference of white game developers.

Colonial Adventures, Uncharted, White Gaze

A dream world shaped by children's desires.
A sanctuary…


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