<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body dir="auto">
Sorry everyone, the Elaine Gómez lecture is tomorrow, February 23!
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Gerald <br>
<br>
<div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
<blockquote type="cite">On Feb 22, 2023, at 3:59 PM, Gerald Voorhees <gerald.voorhees@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]-->
<style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }
@font-face { font-family: Calibri; }
@font-face { font-family: Tahoma; }
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; }
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; }
span.EmailStyle17 { font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; }
.MsoChpDefault { font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; }
@page WordSection1 { size: 612pt 792pt; margin: 72pt; }
div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }</style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please join the Anti-Racism, Decolonization, and EDI (ADE) Committee of the
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">Games Institute</span></a> at the University of Waterloo (February 24, 1-3 PM Eastern) for a Lecture by Elaine Gomez (Brass Lion Games) on<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/games-institute/events/impact-genuine-and-mindful-inclusion-marginalized" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC"> "The
Impact of Genuine and Mindful Inclusion of Marginalized Communities in Creative Works."</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222">This is a free, online event! </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/impact-of-genuine-inclusion-of-marginalized-communities-in-creative-works-tickets-513038480907?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">Eventbrite
registration required.</span></a></span></strong><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#222222">Creative works have the power to uplift individuals or destroy years of activist work through the perpetuation of stereotypical perceptions. The gravity and pressure of these responsibilities often falls heavily on marginalized
creatives. In an ideal world, as a collective, we could share the burdens together through processes that are inclusive, mindful and authentic. The more we understand each other's experiences, history, and backgrounds, the more impactful our work will be.
Join Elaine Gómez as she expands on core principles that are currently shaping creative decision making in game development and how being part of a diverse workplace and active in organizations that give back makes a difference to those that matter most.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222">About the speaker:</span></strong><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#222222">Elaine Gomez is a prominent figure within the digital works community, and co-founder of Latinx in Gaming. As a Latina, she has lived experience within the games industry, is an independent Unity developer and games
educator. Through her presentation, she plans to connect cultural appreciation and representation in games and other digital works. In her presentation, she will speak about how gaming has the power to destroy the perpetuation of stereotypical perceptions
and will explain how games can be designed in a powerful and uplifting way. By understanding one another’s experiences, histories, cultural experiences and backgrounds, we can shape creative decision making in games development to be a more inclusive, mindful
and authentic place.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(My apologies for my previous reply all to the list. Apparently I’m not very good at “control-f” searching a document!) - Gerald
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
<hr size="1" width="100%" align="center">
</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Gerald Voorhees, Ph.D. (he/him)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Department of Communication Arts <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">257A ML, Waterloo ON, N2L 3G1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
<hr size="1" width="100%" align="center">
</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo
is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</body>
</html>