Carolyn Petit is host of the miniseries Queer Tropes.
Carolyn Petit is host of the miniseries Queer Tropes.
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Carolyn Petit interview — A good reception for Queer Tropes in Video Games series

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Surprisingly, Carolyn Petit didn’t get a lot of hate this week. Petit was out in front as the host of Queer Tropes in Video Games, a new video criticism series from Feminist Frequency.

The three-part miniseries examines the depiction of queer people in games, much like Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games looked at the representation of women in games. Anita Sarkeesian, an award-winning critic who leads Feminist Frequency, directed the series. After doing the series on women, Sarkeesian was subjected to considerable harassment starting in 2013.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.