Call for submissions on women’s history in games

Black and white poster for women's history month, shows an aviator signaling a jet plane

This year’s Women’s History Month theme is ”Women inspiring innovation through imagination.” It aims to shed light on women’s contributions to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Women have often been shut out of histories of science and technology, and this carries through into the way that histories of video games are told.

I’m hoping to put together a nice pdf collection of articles at the end of the month that celebrate the history of women as innovators in the video games industry. This can include biographical pieces about the achievements of individual women, memoirs from women looking back over their own personal histories in the industry, social histories of women in games, and many more.

If you’ve got something that you think would fit the bill, please email it to me by 20th March: rupa.zero@gmail.com

About Zoya

Zoya is a freelance writer and historian. Their particular interest is in video games: design, history, and how these voxellated virtual worlds are inseparable from real-world social and economic networks. Zoya is also writing a book about the history of the Dreamcast, told from within three of the game-worlds it hosted. They can also be found at Gamesbrief, Pocketgamer, and zoyastreet.com.
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