Poppy Wilde
@poppywilde.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
Lovely evening field trip to Game Guru board game cafe for the Game Cultures research cluster! We played Feed the Kraken, me and co-pirate @harriresearches.bsky.social scored a victory against @doktornick.bsky.social @andrewbell.bsky.social @eugeniotriana.bsky.social (+ Will & Mark, non-bskyers) 🐙🏴☠️
December 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Lovely evening field trip to Game Guru board game cafe for the Game Cultures research cluster! We played Feed the Kraken, me and co-pirate @harriresearches.bsky.social scored a victory against @doktornick.bsky.social @andrewbell.bsky.social @eugeniotriana.bsky.social (+ Will & Mark, non-bskyers) 🐙🏴☠️
Deadline for Expressions of Interest for the funded Doctoral Landscape Awards is Monday 17 November at noon. EoIs aren't mandatory, but are encouraged if you're thinking about applying. #PhDfunding #research
Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies
Doctoral Landscape Awards
The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...
www.bcu.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Deadline for Expressions of Interest for the funded Doctoral Landscape Awards is Monday 17 November at noon. EoIs aren't mandatory, but are encouraged if you're thinking about applying. #PhDfunding #research
I'm keynoting the Animex Symposium next week! My talk is titled "The promises and pitfalls of posthuman and postanthropocene games". It currently consists of a series of bleak, existential questions. And some pics. What more could you ask for?! #GameCultures #NetZero
www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/an...
www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/an...
Animex Symposium on Game Cultures and Net Zero
We're seeking submissions for proposals for 20-minute conference presentations from across the fields of animation, VFX and games.
www.tees.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I'm keynoting the Animex Symposium next week! My talk is titled "The promises and pitfalls of posthuman and postanthropocene games". It currently consists of a series of bleak, existential questions. And some pics. What more could you ask for?! #GameCultures #NetZero
www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/an...
www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/an...
PSA - reminder that #DiGRA2026 submissions due THREE WEEKS TODAY (deadline for full papers and abstracts Monday 1 December).
Obligatory "how is so soon??" "what I am going to submit??" panic may now commence.
www.digraconference2026.com
Obligatory "how is so soon??" "what I am going to submit??" panic may now commence.
www.digraconference2026.com
DiGRA 2026 Conference | Maynooth University, Ireland
Join the DiGRA 2026 conference at Maynooth University, 14–18 June 2026. Theme “Intersectional Pleasures.” A global hybrid event for game research, culture, design, and industry.
www.digraconference2026.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
PSA - reminder that #DiGRA2026 submissions due THREE WEEKS TODAY (deadline for full papers and abstracts Monday 1 December).
Obligatory "how is so soon??" "what I am going to submit??" panic may now commence.
www.digraconference2026.com
Obligatory "how is so soon??" "what I am going to submit??" panic may now commence.
www.digraconference2026.com
Really enjoyed working on mine + @doktornick.bsky.social co-authored chapter "Autoethnography as Historical Method: A Plague Tale and Authentic Experiences of the Past" for this collection, we presented the work at DiGRA25 + loved discussing the themes + methodology. The ToC for the book looks ace!
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Really enjoyed working on mine + @doktornick.bsky.social co-authored chapter "Autoethnography as Historical Method: A Plague Tale and Authentic Experiences of the Past" for this collection, we presented the work at DiGRA25 + loved discussing the themes + methodology. The ToC for the book looks ace!
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For @bcmcr.bsky.social - wrote about the our university's reading group's thoughts on a book about populist feminism, resistance against anti-gender thought, and affect-based politics. It was a fun conversation!
bcmcr.org/research/cul...
bcmcr.org/research/cul...
Cultural Activism & Alternative Politics Reading Group: “Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment” (Graff & Korolczuk, 2022) – BCMCR
bcmcr.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For @bcmcr.bsky.social - wrote about the our university's reading group's thoughts on a book about populist feminism, resistance against anti-gender thought, and affect-based politics. It was a fun conversation!
bcmcr.org/research/cul...
bcmcr.org/research/cul...
Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies
Doctoral Landscape Awards
The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...
www.bcu.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies
Taking zombie studies seriously with a Dead Red Zombie cocktail!
October 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Taking zombie studies seriously with a Dead Red Zombie cocktail!
Obviously I rarely use twitter anymore but any time I am looking at it on my laptop (e.g. for my social media lectures) my little act of defiance is going to twitter./com rather than x./com just as a dig to piss off Elon Musk
October 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Obviously I rarely use twitter anymore but any time I am looking at it on my laptop (e.g. for my social media lectures) my little act of defiance is going to twitter./com rather than x./com just as a dig to piss off Elon Musk
Love how some games are like "this game is played with a controller" and I'm like, you *clearly* have not experienced me using a controller. WSAD ftw 👩🏼💻
October 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Love how some games are like "this game is played with a controller" and I'm like, you *clearly* have not experienced me using a controller. WSAD ftw 👩🏼💻
D&D time with the Game Cultures Research Cluster crew 🐲🎲🏰
September 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
D&D time with the Game Cultures Research Cluster crew 🐲🎲🏰
Reposted by Poppy Wilde
HOOT!
We’ve been a little quiet but we’re thrilled to announce that registration for Furry Studies 2025 in Pacific Lutheran University is NOW OPEN!
👉🏻 furrystudies.org
Hopefully see you there! 🦉
We’ve been a little quiet but we’re thrilled to announce that registration for Furry Studies 2025 in Pacific Lutheran University is NOW OPEN!
👉🏻 furrystudies.org
Hopefully see you there! 🦉
Furry Studies 2025 Conference
Furry Studies conference aims to promote global and cross-field collaboration among furry scholars and those invested in this fascinating and diverse community.
furrystudies.org
September 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
HOOT!
We’ve been a little quiet but we’re thrilled to announce that registration for Furry Studies 2025 in Pacific Lutheran University is NOW OPEN!
👉🏻 furrystudies.org
Hopefully see you there! 🦉
We’ve been a little quiet but we’re thrilled to announce that registration for Furry Studies 2025 in Pacific Lutheran University is NOW OPEN!
👉🏻 furrystudies.org
Hopefully see you there! 🦉
Having a great time at #DDD17 with @annawilde.bsky.social this week! Presented my paper on death games in the "Digital Death I" panel first thing, then the "Digital Death II" panel was so full myself and others watched along on my laptop from the garden behind the conference room! @ddd17.sites.uu.nl
August 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Having a great time at #DDD17 with @annawilde.bsky.social this week! Presented my paper on death games in the "Digital Death I" panel first thing, then the "Digital Death II" panel was so full myself and others watched along on my laptop from the garden behind the conference room! @ddd17.sites.uu.nl
This is appalling - how can the theatre say they are "committed to being an accessible venue for all" when evidence shows this clearly hasn't been the case? BBC News - Broken lift bars disabled visitors from theatre
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Broken lift bars disabled visitors from Wimbledon theatre
New Wimbledon Theatre's only accessible lift was temperamental before it stopped working in March.
www.bbc.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
This is appalling - how can the theatre say they are "committed to being an accessible venue for all" when evidence shows this clearly hasn't been the case? BBC News - Broken lift bars disabled visitors from theatre
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Is anyone working on the Online Safety Act and specifically impacts on social media? I'd like to run a class on it this autumn semester for my third year undergraduates. Any resources/ideas/people happy to speak etc. greatly appreciated! #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMedia #OnlineSafetyBill
August 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Is anyone working on the Online Safety Act and specifically impacts on social media? I'd like to run a class on it this autumn semester for my third year undergraduates. Any resources/ideas/people happy to speak etc. greatly appreciated! #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMedia #OnlineSafetyBill
Wrote up a short piece about the Interactive Games PGR conference that took place a few weeks ago. There really were too many excellent papers to list in detail, but here I share the main idea of my keynote: allowing yourself to experiment and push theory in new directions. bcmcr.org/research/key...
July 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Wrote up a short piece about the Interactive Games PGR conference that took place a few weeks ago. There really were too many excellent papers to list in detail, but here I share the main idea of my keynote: allowing yourself to experiment and push theory in new directions. bcmcr.org/research/key...
Pretty wild that a month ago was the start of #DiGRA2025 - it all feels like a distant memory! This year I was lucky enough to act as a track chair, respond to student papers in the PhD consortium, and present both a co-authored paper and solo paper. I give a recap of my experiences and work here 👇
Autoethnography and Authenticity, and Making Friends with Death: DiGRA 2025 conference – BCMCR
bcmcr.org
July 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Pretty wild that a month ago was the start of #DiGRA2025 - it all feels like a distant memory! This year I was lucky enough to act as a track chair, respond to student papers in the PhD consortium, and present both a co-authored paper and solo paper. I give a recap of my experiences and work here 👇
Really enjoyed today's @historygamesnet.bsky.social panel on Gender, excellent panelists and engaging discussion. A great way to end the day and a lovely opportunity to paint some (not so) innocent doors while listening 😛
July 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Really enjoyed today's @historygamesnet.bsky.social panel on Gender, excellent panelists and engaging discussion. A great way to end the day and a lovely opportunity to paint some (not so) innocent doors while listening 😛
Reposted by Poppy Wilde
Studying anything death-related for #PhD or #Masters? Join us for an informal Zoom on all things death-related - cemeteries, grief, bereavement, death and dying - all welcome. JULY 30th, 9 - 10AM free tickets here deathandsociety.org/eventsandgro... #death #dying #research #PhD
July 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Reposted by Poppy Wilde
Reposted by Poppy Wilde
📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢
If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off
Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.
🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.
🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁
If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off
Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.
🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.
🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁
July 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢
If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off
Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.
🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.
🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁
If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off
Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.
🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.
🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁
Fantastic @investigatedot.bsky.social Interactive Games PGR conference today organised by @caitlinveal.bsky.social and co - so interesting to hear from so many PGRs on the exciting directions their research is taking. So many intriguing ideas and avenues to explore. An absolute pleasure to keynote!👩🏼💻
July 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Fantastic @investigatedot.bsky.social Interactive Games PGR conference today organised by @caitlinveal.bsky.social and co - so interesting to hear from so many PGRs on the exciting directions their research is taking. So many intriguing ideas and avenues to explore. An absolute pleasure to keynote!👩🏼💻
Looking forward to kicking off this year's Interactive Games PGR conference today with my keynote "Posthumanism and Post-PhD: theory in the aftermath". Some really interesting papers lined up throughout the day, should be a great event! @investigatedot.bsky.social #GameStudies #IGPGR25
🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day!
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
July 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Looking forward to kicking off this year's Interactive Games PGR conference today with my keynote "Posthumanism and Post-PhD: theory in the aftermath". Some really interesting papers lined up throughout the day, should be a great event! @investigatedot.bsky.social #GameStudies #IGPGR25
Reposted by Poppy Wilde
🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day!
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
July 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🧡 If you're joining us for this year's Interactive Games PGR Conference next Friday, please see below for the schedule for the day!
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
🧡 As with previous years, we have a really exciting range of speakers lined up across a diverse range of disciplines and subject areas. It's going to be a great day👾
Day zero of #DiGRA2025 down 🥳 great presentations in the avatar aesthetics workshop this morning, then I had the pleasure of being "senior respondent" for three really interesting projects presented at the PhD Consortium this afternoon. Already wondering if I'll need to nab another free notebook...📝
June 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Day zero of #DiGRA2025 down 🥳 great presentations in the avatar aesthetics workshop this morning, then I had the pleasure of being "senior respondent" for three really interesting projects presented at the PhD Consortium this afternoon. Already wondering if I'll need to nab another free notebook...📝