Sims 4 disabilities mod8/4/2023 ![]() ![]() In developing this essay, we examined a space that, for all of its feigned celebration of disabled people, remained completely inaccessible. This all started when I was exploring Life Is Strange, a game that I hold close to my heart, for a video-essay that a colleague and I wrote on agency, gender and disability. Of course, my search has proven rather fruitless, because these “real” worlds aren’t built with disabled people in mind. I’m actively searching for disabled people living mundane, ordinary lives. I’ve been looking for visibly disabled people going shopping, for coffee, at a bar, simply existing in the backgrounds of games. Specifically, I’ve been searching for bodies that look like mine and that look like the people around me disabled bodies that don’t have superpowers or use their walking sticks like melee weapons (looking at you, V from Devil May Cry V ), I mean disabled people doing real things in the real world. Not in the emotional sense, that’s a completely different story. I’ve been searching for myself in video games recently. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |