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- Phoenix Perry and her fellow Code Liberation Foundation activists, Catt Small, Nina Freeman, and Jane Friedhoff outlined the horrible, historic misogny that marketers created to pigeonhole early gaming adverts as strictly the domain of men, its alienating effects on their relationship to videogames, and their incredible efforts to bring more women back into the world of coding and game development by offering free classes in programming to women around the city, followed by two free coding workshops for the women in attendance on Sunday;
- Shawn Allen and his wife, Diana Santiago’s very humorous and heartwarming dialog on their work on Allen’s indie title Treachery in Beatdown City and its effects on their relationship and family dynamics, and;
- Auriea Harvey’s survey of her creative collaborations with her partner as they went from early Internet artists in the early 2000s to creators of powerful work as Tale of Tales (some of which is on display upstairs at the Indie Essentials show)
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