[Commlist] Call for Chapter Abstracts: Liberate Me Plenty – The Queer and Now of Digital Gaming

After completing a round of successful chapter submissions and reviews, 
MultiPlay Network is re-opening the CFP for its queer gaming book 
/Liberate Me Plenty: The Queer and Now of Digital Gaming/.

LMP is an anthology series developed through the works of early-career 
academics that aims to shine a spotlight on novel developments in the 
intersectional field of queer videogame research.  Queerness, both as an 
identity and as a form of action, constantly challenges the boundaries 
set on how we understand our social world.  This is particularly evident 
in research based around queerness and videogames where boundaries 
between right and wrong forms of play, player and game, and even the 
human and non-human, are challenged through the intersection of physical 
and digital space.

The anthology series will look to highlight developing work in this 
field of research, asking us to consider our own embodiment from the 
moment we even think about picking up a controller.We are currently 
accepting abstract submissions for chapters that compliment those that 
have already been accepted.  This includes, but is not limited to, works 
that focus on:

  * queer and emerging identities in games;
  * non-normative gameplay;
  * queer(ing) agency and the player;
  * asexual/agender representations and modes of play; and,
  * qualitative studies of play.


Queerness is a fluid concept that continuously looks to push back 
against definition.  Liberate Me Plenty is an anthology of thoughts 
around queerness and digital gaming that, through altering moments of 
consensus, tension and contradiction, will contribute to ideas around 
what it means to play games queerly.

If you wish to contribute, please send a *300 word abstract and a 100 
word bio to (networkmultiplay /at/ gmail.com)* with the subject line *“LMP 
Abstract Submission.”*
*Deadline for submissions:* Monday 27th May 2024


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