MadzBrutal
@madzbrutal.bsky.social
Madison, PhD in Media Studies, I study videogames and people who play them, Speedrun, she\her
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I've been away from social media for more than a year, but I thought I would promo some of the things I've written this past year or so!
Here's my work on speedrunning, trans players, and anti-trans extremism in a thread.
Always happy to share pdfs as well!
Here's my work on speedrunning, trans players, and anti-trans extremism in a thread.
Always happy to share pdfs as well!
I've been away from social media for more than a year, but I thought I would promo some of the things I've written this past year or so!
Here's my work on speedrunning, trans players, and anti-trans extremism in a thread.
Always happy to share pdfs as well!
Here's my work on speedrunning, trans players, and anti-trans extremism in a thread.
Always happy to share pdfs as well!
January 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I've been away from social media for more than a year, but I thought I would promo some of the things I've written this past year or so!
Here's my work on speedrunning, trans players, and anti-trans extremism in a thread.
Always happy to share pdfs as well!
Here's my work on speedrunning, trans players, and anti-trans extremism in a thread.
Always happy to share pdfs as well!
"The Transister's Lament" is a Twine essay in the Trans Game Zine project!
It interweaves histories of glitch art, experimental music, emergent play communities, videogame cheat devices, Nintendo's litigious legacies, as well as my own practice of circuit bending
transgameszine.org/project/tslR...
It interweaves histories of glitch art, experimental music, emergent play communities, videogame cheat devices, Nintendo's litigious legacies, as well as my own practice of circuit bending
transgameszine.org/project/tslR...
January 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"The Transister's Lament" is a Twine essay in the Trans Game Zine project!
It interweaves histories of glitch art, experimental music, emergent play communities, videogame cheat devices, Nintendo's litigious legacies, as well as my own practice of circuit bending
transgameszine.org/project/tslR...
It interweaves histories of glitch art, experimental music, emergent play communities, videogame cheat devices, Nintendo's litigious legacies, as well as my own practice of circuit bending
transgameszine.org/project/tslR...
"Surviving the Reset: Speedrunning Spyro, Trans Mundanity, and Playing in the Impasse" is out in Camera Obscura!
It is an autoethnographic piece about the entanglements of the slow grinds of videogame play and repetitive, precarious day-to-day rituals of (trans) life.
doi.org/10.1215/0270...
It is an autoethnographic piece about the entanglements of the slow grinds of videogame play and repetitive, precarious day-to-day rituals of (trans) life.
doi.org/10.1215/0270...
January 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"Surviving the Reset: Speedrunning Spyro, Trans Mundanity, and Playing in the Impasse" is out in Camera Obscura!
It is an autoethnographic piece about the entanglements of the slow grinds of videogame play and repetitive, precarious day-to-day rituals of (trans) life.
doi.org/10.1215/0270...
It is an autoethnographic piece about the entanglements of the slow grinds of videogame play and repetitive, precarious day-to-day rituals of (trans) life.
doi.org/10.1215/0270...
"Un-Moving Play and the End of Time: Code Injections and the Trans Abrogation of Media Objects" co-authored with @persephone.blue, is out in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies!
It's about Triforce% and understanding speedrunning/TASing as a trans practice!
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...
It's about Triforce% and understanding speedrunning/TASing as a trans practice!
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...
January 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"Un-Moving Play and the End of Time: Code Injections and the Trans Abrogation of Media Objects" co-authored with @persephone.blue, is out in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies!
It's about Triforce% and understanding speedrunning/TASing as a trans practice!
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...
It's about Triforce% and understanding speedrunning/TASing as a trans practice!
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...
“‘I took a deep breath and came out as GC’”: Gender Cr*tical Storytelling, Radicalization, and Discursive Practice on Ovarit and M*msn*t,” with @persephone.blue, is out in a special issue of Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies on Disinformation.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
January 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
“‘I took a deep breath and came out as GC’”: Gender Cr*tical Storytelling, Radicalization, and Discursive Practice on Ovarit and M*msn*t,” with @persephone.blue, is out in a special issue of Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies on Disinformation.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
“Playing in Postmortem: Link Rot, Memory Decay, and Haunting Archives at the End of the World” is out in a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication on Games and Storage!
It's about glitches, toxic communities, love, and holding too tightly to games.
doi.org/10.1080/1529...
It's about glitches, toxic communities, love, and holding too tightly to games.
doi.org/10.1080/1529...
January 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
“Playing in Postmortem: Link Rot, Memory Decay, and Haunting Archives at the End of the World” is out in a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication on Games and Storage!
It's about glitches, toxic communities, love, and holding too tightly to games.
doi.org/10.1080/1529...
It's about glitches, toxic communities, love, and holding too tightly to games.
doi.org/10.1080/1529...