191:. Around her, there was no girl to share her passion, and it was not a subject addressed by her classmates. Once she arrived in France, she remained without a computer for a long time, and it was only around the age of seventeen that she began to play regularly again. Once again, she found, that she was one of the few young women to play. As an adult, another question arose for her: âWhere are the black women in video games? ». She realized that as a player, she saw herself as a kind of anomaly: female and black. She met extraordinary people on
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environment under male-sounding nicknames. Too often a witness, but also a victim, of discriminatory behavior, she reported being often the victim of racism in the world of streaming and deplored the fact that the only possible action to counter insults is to ban, report and block people. However, these people retain âthe possibility of endlessly reproducing these same insults". For her, it is up to the platforms to take their responsibilities; for example, she cites
207:. In fact, the players develop many avoidance strategies to dodge this harassment. For example, by modifying their nicknames, by deactivating their microphones or by playing male characters, because these are âreputed to be stronger, more virileâ, the female characters being considered as weak characters.
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Jennifer Lufau, being a black woman geek, in the racist and sexist world of gaming, was in itself a militant gesture. She suffered through the regular receipt of hateful comments. "Playing black characters is a real âinsult magnetâ. To avoid this situation, many racialized women evolved in this
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