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Playing Unbound: Towards a Radically Intersectional HCI

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ABSTRACT

This short essay is a call to action for digital games researchers to positively transform the future of HCI by meaningfully adopting an explicitly intersectional approach to our work as a scholarly community.

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      CHI PLAY '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
      November 2022
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      ISBN:9781450392112
      DOI:10.1145/3505270

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