Heather Kelley

Game designer, digital artist, sensory designer, professor and media curator. 25% of @kokoromi. Faculty @cmuetc. She/her. (Header: Leonie Smelt)

[Heather Kelley @PerfectPlum]

Excited to announce the documentary film I've been advising on since pre-pandemic is about to kick(start) things up a notch! It's about my amazing mentor Sandy Stone. Join us here or on IG (same handle). Happy Pride!

[Tanya (not truly here) vividfoundry.bsky.social @VividFoundry]

Status should mean this:

You're responsible with it.
You think of how you can better support people on their own grounds, with no strings attached.
You reflect upon your own actions now that you have the experience to back it up.
You don't do harm with your wider reach.

[Bexiter Ascending @BexSaltsman]

I feel like this might be a good time to talk about the steps I take because I’m *AFRAID* any time I have to travel to an industry event like GDC, PAX, E3, gamescom, etc etc etc.

I have to travel solo a lot and there’s a reason I’m an anxious mess when I get on my flights.

[Games and Online Harassment Hotline @GamesHotline]

Every year, there are stories about groping, drugging, harassment, and even more stories of countless attempts to create opportunities for assault at games industry events like #GDC23. It's heartbreaking and infuriating that this feels so normalized...

Text SUPPORT to 23368.

[Heather Kelley @PerfectPlum]

@JarrydHuntley Awesome talk Jarryd! Can't wait to dig in to the github.

[Heather Kelley @PerfectPlum]

@radiatoryang Let's get tea!

[Heather Kelley @PerfectPlum]

We're showing Grow Still again today from 6:30 to 8:30pm, do stop by! https://t.co/z0A1aS8Lk1

[LIKELIKE @likelikearcade]

THIS FRIDAY: GROW STILL
A game-poem by @omarieclaire and @PerfectPlum
Belonging can’t be rushed. Take time to root and reach. Sustenance flows from those who have come before, with those around us, and to those who come after.

March 3rd, 2023
7-11PM
https://t.co/gh6fnfwZt2

[Robert Yang @radiatoryang]

any not-in-moscone not-gdc indie hangout things happening this year? I feel so out of the loop with whatever's happening

[Games and Online Harassment Hotline @GamesHotline]

Often, friends/supporters will tell someone who's being harassed not to "feed the trolls" out of good intention and well meaning wishes for the harassment to end and not escalate.

Here's why that's not helpful.

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

Music fun fact: The oldest flute is 60,000 years old, while the earliest indications of humans wearing pants date 20,000 years ago, indicating an approx. 40,000-year historical period where we had music, but no pants

[Heather Kelley @PerfectPlum]

@Truittjg @ludopolitics The Aztec episode of @Fall_of_Civ_Pod mentions this, (though with Mastodons rather than dinosaurs), maybe @PaulMMCooper knows?

[Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy]

Glory & power to the women & girls in Iran who have seized the narrative & become object and subject in a feminist revolution they began & which they propel.

They are heroes, yes. But look at Time magazine (L) impose politeness on their revolution (R). Revolutions are not polite

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

With full, heavy hearts, we share that Shatzi, @peoplesbubbie, died at the age of 92. 💔🕯

An anti-Zionist Jew, lesbian, AIDS nurse, death educator, Shatzi was a source of wisdom and joy for our community.

May her memory be for a revolution, from New York to Palestine.

🧵

[Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @LeighGoodmark]

The only way to prevent survivors from being incarcerated is abolition. Abolition feminism gives us the politics and practice to do that work. There are steps we can take along the way-non-reformist reforms (thanks @incitenews and @C_Resistance)-but abolition has to be the goal.

[Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @LeighGoodmark]

People ask me all the time what a non-carceral response to intimate partner violence could look like. The @APTPaction lays it out in this report-concrete, comprehensive, community-based. Must read. https://t.co/ejFA3nx56j

[Heather Kelley @PerfectPlum]

@wearpants TIFDog is not enough anymore, it has to express that this is *better* than fine.

[Heather Kelley @PerfectPlum]

There needs to be a new word for the emotion you feel when it's 65F at 10:30am on November 5th in hardiness zone 6 and you're in a sundress and it feels really good but you know it's very very bad.

[Heather Kelley @PerfectPlum]

@apothekerrie Sounding off for the old guard here! It feels so much more possible to do now than when I started on this path in 2005. But stigma is still a huge business hurdle.