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My sister Alicia C. Sparrow is the editor for this horror anthology. Please buy this book yall! It's gonna be 🔥🔥🔥

Hi everyone!!! As of Nov. 7th, I will be closed to submissions so that I can focus on editing and getting through my backlog of submissions already in my inbox. If I owe you an email, I promise it's coming. Thanks for your patience! -Alicia at CRP

Now that the James Baldwin scholars are strike-breakers (at New School and Rutgers) and have administrators quoting bell hooks helping them, can we admit that DEI in academia is mostly a tool of class rule? This was already clear if you know DEI people in finance.

When I was a kid, everyone told me that when I grew up and started seeing taxes being taken out of my check, I would get more conservative but the opposite has happened because I look at my paycheck and I’m like “I pay this much in taxes just for people to be unhoused and unfed?“

Out today! Transmedia Stories is an experiment in multimedia publication and collaboration that explores storytelling-based research methods. With the growth of digital media, narrative is now conveyed through a range of new and ephemeral formats. #ReadUP #supDigital

How does media engagement shape policy? In their new multimedia book, Patrick Jagoda, Ireashia Bennett, and Ashlyn Sparrow explore ways storytelling can be used to conduct research in fields like public health, medicine, education, and activism. (1/3)

The result is an experiment in multimedia publication that touches on everything from digital storytelling to video games and more. All of the projects were undertaken in collaboration with Black and brown youth on the South Side of Chicago. (2/3)

"Transmedia Stories: Narrative Methods for Public Health and Social Justice" is free and online. Check it out here: transmediastories.org (3/3)

I'm so C#-brained I legitimately don't understand how languages like js can get by without structs or operator overloading

Keep your eyes out for this collection, y'all! When I tell you DB Maroon's got things to SAY! She got things to say for real, and you'll want to hear 'em.

#CHI2023 paper: "Smell & Paste: Low-Fidelity Prototyping for Olfactory Experiences." 👃 Low-fidelity prototyping is foundational to HCI, but when we looked at smell-based experiences… we noted it was absent! So, we made a toolkit to enable it: youtu.be/Z-INOiX6DQg (video) 1/9

The WestonGameLab is having a charity event in support of Trans Lifeline. Students will speedrun their favorite games including 🦊 TUNIC 🦊 🦊, Celeste🍓, Neon White💀, #mariokart8 🏁, and #SuperMetroid🔫. Join us on May 7 at 3pm CST: bit.ly/ugd-tot.

We did it! We're over goal $5k. There's still time to donate if your available and interested! bit.ly/ugd-tot

✨️B-b-b-b-bio update✨️

In light of the new Assassins Creed game, here's a cool project that I was able to work on with the folks @wakingonigames! Getting funding for game projects is just 🫠

😭📢 FINALLY REVEALING WHAT WE'VE BEEN DREAMING OF FOR YEARS 😭📢   Outersloth is our way of supporting indies, sharing our success, and dream for a more sustainable industry. A game fund with terms we wanted to see.   Thank you thread + how to submit 👇🧵