We want to highlight Streamers of color, LGBTQIA and other marginalized folks who stream here at #INeedDiverseGames. We’re happy to bring back this series by introducing you to TheGrimPhreaker.

If you want to be featured too, send us an email [whyineeddiversegames@gmail.com] with your gamertag, any image, icon or logo you’re comfortable sharing, a brief bio, your stream info, a recent Twitch highlight or YT clip and any social media you are comfortable sharing in a public post. We’ll do Streamer highlight posts on Sunday, US Central time.

Gamer Tag: The Grim Phreaker
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Get to know Phreaker:
Born and raised in Queens, New York, The Grim Phreaker grew up playing board games and slowly began her love for video games through the NES and SNES but solidified her life long love affair with gaming on the PS One. She’s thirsty for blood online, but in real life she saves lives as an Ambulance Dispatcher and is a certified EMT. She doesn’t believe in the Console Wars or the PC Master Race as she plays on all three platforms as she pleases. In her spare time she works as a freelance video game journalist (has even been to E3) and she runs her own gaming news and reviews site Zombie Gamer Online.
Hobbies: Working out, People watching, eating cheesecake and Tiramisu and testing what she can cook in Crockpots
Follow Phreaker on Twitch and YouTube:
Twitch: Twitch.tv/thegrimphreaker

Youtube: Http://www.youtube.com/c/thegrimphreaker

Check out Phreaker’s recent run in the Division Beta:
Follow Phreaker on Twitter, Instagram and FB:

  • Twitter: @thegrimphreaker
  • Instagram: thegrimphreaker
  • Facebook: thegrimphreaker

 

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Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, which is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. I Need Diverse Games serves the community by supporting marginalized developers attend the Game Developer Conference by participating in the GDC Scholarship program, helps assist attendance at other industry events, and is seeking partnership with organizations and initiatives. Tanya is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming, #INeedDiverseGames spawn point, and wants to make it better and more inclusive for everyone. She founded and was the EIC of Fresh Out of Tokens podcast where games culture was discussed and viewed through a lense of feminism, intersectionality and diversity. Now she’s a co-host on Spawn on Me Podcast. Along with all of that, she’s the Programming Coordinator for OrcaCon, she often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other topics at multiple conventions throughout the year. Her writing about games and games critique appears in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Wiscon Chronicles, Vice Gaming, Paste Games, Mic, and other publications.