This week, Sam is joined by Maddy Myers, editor-in-chief of Mothership. She’s additionally a co-host of the video video games podcast Triple Click on.
Maddy launched Mothership with co-founder Zoë Hannah in January. It’s a queer and women-owned impartial publication that focuses on gender and video games. They focus on Maddy’s early days of video games journalism at a (print!) alt-weekly in Boston after which on the Mary Sue, how she and Zoë determined it was time to give up their jobs and launch their very own indie outlet, and the significance of proudly owning your personal work as a journalist.
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Why I’m launching a feminist video video games web site in 2026 – The Guardian
Mothership and a Historical past of Ladies in Video games Media – the Publish Video games podcast
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Sam Cole is writing from the far reaches of the web, about sexuality, the grownup business, on-line tradition, and AI. She’s the creator of How Intercourse Modified the Web and the Web Modified Intercourse.

