Tara Fickle on Tarot in the Classroom

What do game studies, literary studies, and Asian American studies have in common? How can immersive role play games help us better understand racial formation and resistance? In episode 35 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach and guest Tara Fickle talk about why games and literature are such fruitful sites for understanding racial formation; what it was like for Tara to design and build her own video game about Japanese-American internment during World War II; how emerging scholars can gain the technological skills they need to create public, multimedia work; and how Tara uses cultural forms like tarot and comics in her teaching to get students to imagine different worlds. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/35-tara-fickle