takingbackourculture:

I have not! If anyone can reblog this with someone in mind, please do!

- Jess

Hi, yes! I think I can help! I’m not black (I’m ethnically jewish, white-passing), but I’m a queer woman game designer, and diversity in gaming is sort of my whole thing! I have some resources you might be interested in.

For game discussion/criticism:

• First of all, you should definitely check out I Need Diverse Games right here on tumblr, curating all the diverse gaming news fit to print. The woman who runs it is named Tanya DePass, she’s amazing! Additionally, she has a podcast called Fresh Out of Tokens, which also focuses on diversity in video games.
  
• Black Girl Nerds, FemHype, and Offworld all do great work hosting and promoting work by diverse creators.
• There’s also the excellent #GamingLooksGood podcast hosted by Shareef Jackson.

List of industry professionals:

• If you’re looking for people in the industry, make sure to take a look at the Black Game Developers database, which is a list of some of the black poc in the gaming industry; the database also gives information on how you can support each individual professional and their work!
• I’d also honestly recommend that anyone interested in game development (either professionally or personally) make use of twitter, which is a great resource for finding and following the work of most developers, designers, and critics–twitter is pretty much industry standard at this point and tons of marginalized folks in gaming use it.

I’m sure I’m leaving people out and I’ll be kicking myself later, but I hope this is helpful! Please feel free to send me a message if anything needs clarification!