Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Why do games struggle with diversity? Few people have looked at this immense question from more angles than Latoya Peterson.
Over a dozen years ago, she turned her sharp eye on video games as critic and editor at the groundbreaking blog Racialicious, writing and curating pieces at the intersection of pop culture, technology, race and politics. Since then, she’s been a journalist, an editor, a documentarian and a news producer, investigating various facets of games, esports, and the culture of play.
In 2019, she took on a new kind of challenge: co-founding Glow Up Games and navigating the business of the free to play industry while becoming an accidental narrative designer on the soon to release Insecure: The Come Up Game. Join us as Latoya seeks answers in the roots of the struggle for better representation at all levels of games.
This talk was streamed live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter on Thursday, April 8th, 2021.
Introduction from professor Naomi Clark begins at 6:20
Splash music is Solace by Qix provided to us by Martin Nayeri
qixx.bandcamp.com/releases
Why do games struggle with diversity? Few people have looked at this immense question from more angles than Latoya Peterson.
Over a dozen years ago, she turned her sharp eye on video games as critic and editor at the groundbreaking blog Racialicious, writing and curating pieces at the intersection of pop culture, technology, race and politics. Since then, she’s been a journalist, an editor, a documentarian and a news producer, investigating various facets of games, esports, and the culture of play.
In 2019, she took on a new kind of challenge: co-founding Glow Up Games and navigating the business of the free to play industry while becoming an accidental narrative designer on the soon to release Insecure: The Come Up Game. Join us as Latoya seeks answers in the roots of the struggle for better representation at all levels of games.
This talk was streamed live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter on Thursday, April 8th, 2021.
Introduction from professor Naomi Clark begins at 6:20
Splash music is Solace by Qix provided to us by Martin Nayeri
qixx.bandcamp.com/releases
