In the first of a multiple part series, I offer some memories of my mother when I was growing from the days before she became a gamer. I will be doing a few more of these over the next few weeks. Hang tight.
Weekly Reader
Jeremy Parish on Dragon Quest VII.
Nadia Oxford on “Girly Games.”
Edwidge Danticat on James Baldwin.
Parish also on Animal Crossing New Leaf.
Daisy
Zombie Attack?
Not sure what mom and I are doing here. May involve zombies.
Um
Selfie
Another selfie of us.
Weekly Reader
- Leigh Alexander on the escapism of Animal Crossing.
- Beeta Baghoolizadeh on her experiences at the Texas State Capital during the debates on their disgusting abortion law. Baghoolizadeh frames her narrative around actual invasive assaults on women's rights from misogynists and the delusions of "Creeping Sharia" from the same people.
- Eugene Robinson on how young black men are not allowed to be young and make the mistakes that privileged whites do.