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17. RPG a Day: Comfort
Sarah Ahmed: To be comfortable is to be so at ease with one’s environment that it is hard to distinguish where one’s body ends and the world begins.
White bodies are comfortable as they inhabit spaces that extend their shape.
Whiteness may function...
Sarah Ahmed: To be comfortable is to be so at ease with one’s environment that it is hard to distinguish where one’s body ends and the world begins.
White bodies are comfortable as they inhabit spaces that extend their shape.
Whiteness may function...
...as a form of public comfort by allowing bodies to extend into spaces that have already taken their shape.
Those spaces are lived as comfortable as they allow bodies to fit in; the surfaces of social space are already impressed upon by the shape of such bodies.
Those spaces are lived as comfortable as they allow bodies to fit in; the surfaces of social space are already impressed upon by the shape of such bodies.
This is mostly just another way of me trying to talk about inclusion/diversity/representation, but also trying to expand upon this framework.
I'm trying to show that what "diversity" allows for marginalized people isn't "seeing themselves" but instead: "being comfortable."
I'm trying to show that what "diversity" allows for marginalized people isn't "seeing themselves" but instead: "being comfortable."
"Diversity" in art and character direction allows for people of color to "extend into spaces that have already taken their shape."
Because the game has already been broken in, in a sense. The shoe of the game becomes comfortable for us.
Because the game has already been broken in, in a sense. The shoe of the game becomes comfortable for us.
What this means, then, is that each person has a different kind of breaking it that must be done. For me, to feel as if a game is ready for me to play it, I must know there are no colonial assumptions as to how the game ought to be played.
In this way, the "diversity" I need is less about "seeing myself" and more about "seeing the possibilities of my self that become available to myself when playing within frameworks that refuse to actively harm me."
Representation as a marker of making comfortable space for marginalized people feels like a better framework for me, because this comes to include things like the mechanics and storytelling frameworks as well as the art direction!
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