The Trans Games Zine is a community-based platform to promote hybrid games scholarship and game development by and for transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people. This platform has been designed alongside the community of authors published here.

Every submission to this Zine has undergone what we call “Queer Review.” This is a peer-led developmental and editorial process: there is no centralized editorial review, no external reviewers, and contributors are met with flexible deadlines that are responsive to the multiple and ongoing crises our community faces. Our work together challenges the central tenets of academic publishing in search of a different kind of rigor - one that centers community care and wellbeing, and one that embraces born-digital and multimodal scholarship on transness and games.

Each zine entry is available in an archival downloadable executable form as well as via the contributors’ external website or digital storefront.

This project was supported by the American Council of Learned Societies Digital Justice Seed Grant 27239.

This site was designed by Soft Chaos.