Intersectional Gaming: Critical Design for Radical Futures

WHERE: CDRS (MN3230), Maanjiwe Nendamowinan, UTM

WHEN: November 10, 2025

12:00- 1:15pm Talk by Dr. Kishonna Gray “Intersectional Gaming: Critical Design for Radical Futures”

1:15- 2:30pm Play-Along

Lunch will be provided.

REGISTRATION: No registration required.

Dr. Kishonna L Gray is a Professor of Racial Justice and Technology in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She is the Director of the Intersectional Tech Lab, a Mellon funded initiative. She is the author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (LSU Press, 2020), Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge, 2014), and is the co-editor of two volumes on culture and gaming: Feminism in Play (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018) and Woke Gaming (University of Washington Press, 2018). Dr. Gray’s work interrogates the impact that technology has on culture and how minoritized users, in particular, influence the creation of technological products and the dissemination of digital artifacts. Her work is based on analyses of game play, platform design, and digital infrastructures. She is regularly sought out for her expertise on issues of racial and gendered justice in gaming and technology by national and international press including Wired, USA Today, The New York Times, The Telegraph, BET, and others. Even Dr. Gray’s co-edited volume, Woke Gaming, was reviewed in The Guardian as one of the best new books about games.