We play Untitled Goose Game, a game where you play… a goose! But the question I have is for my special guests, media theorist Bonnie Ruberg and historian Laine Nooney is, is Untitled Goose Game Queer? Listen to find out! (filmed and recorded October 2019)

 

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Additional Content

Unedited footage from our Untitled Goose Game play session:









*Special Follow up interview with Bonnie Ruberg*

A few months after recording this episode, Bonnie and I had a chance to catch up and discuss new thoughts in queerness and games, as well as the role of videogames in a post-pandemic era. 



























































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Bonnie Ruberg

Bonnie (Bo) Ruberg , Ph.D. is an assistant professor of digital games and interactive media in the Department of Informaticsat the University of California, Irvine. They are also core faculty in the UC IrvineProgram in Visual Studies. Bo’s research explores sexuality and gender in digital media and digital cultures, with a focus on LGBTQ issues and video games. They are the author of The Queer Games Avant-Garde,Video Games Have Always Been Queer, the co-editor of Queer Game Studies, and the co-founder and co-organizer of the annual Queerness and Games Conference.











Laine Nooney

Laine Nooney is an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University, specializing in historical, cultural, and economic analysis of the video game and computer industries. Her research has been featured in popular venues such as The Atlantic, Flash Forward Podcast, The Internet History Podcast, and <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/2013/03/06/tech/who-tech/roberta-williams-mother-computer-vide...