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“Gaming releases that feeling of daily entrapment that has suddenly become our reality.”
In “Gaming With My Boys Has Become a Necessary Artificial Reality,” poet and professor Alan Chazaro writes that there’s a world of gamers beyond the stereotypical young, white, and heterosexual players we often imagine. Even though games typically underrepresent Black and Latinx characters, Chazaro says that playing his PlayStation 4 with friends has been “a source of joy, release, and friendship in times of extreme social distancing.”
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