{"id":976422,"date":"2020-06-15T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/976422\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:00:04","slug":"everything-is-political-institutional-racism-in-life-is-strange-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/976422\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Everything is Political&#8221; | Institutional Racism in Life is Strange 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&quot;Everything is Political&quot; | Institutional Racism in Life is Strange 2\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Af9kcJ59NGI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLife is Strange 2 stands out for being an overtly political game, explicitly tackling racism in a post-Trump America. But racism isn\u2019t just an isolated act of violence, it\u2019s woven into our institutions and our everyday lives. Especially in light of current events, it\u2019s time to take a deeper look at how racism is represented in Life is Strange 2. <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this video contains spoilers for Life is Strange 2.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameAssistYT<br \/>\nPatreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/GameAssistYT<br \/>\nMerch: https:\/\/crowdmade.com\/collections\/game-assist<br \/>\nKo-fi: https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/gameassist<br \/>\nBuy some books! (affiliate link): https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/shop\/GameAssist <\/p>\n<p>Credits:<br \/>\n&#8220;Gaslighting&#8221;, Cambridge Dictionary, (https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/gaslighting)<br \/>\n&#8220;Decolonisation is Not a Metaphor&#8221; &#8211; Eve Tuck (https:\/\/jps.library.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/des\/article\/view\/18630)<br \/>\nAbolitionist Futures &#8211; for social + transformative justice, against prisons + policing (https:\/\/abolitionistfutures.com\/)<\/p>\n<p>Music Credits:<br \/>\nInto The Woods &#8211; Jonathan Morali<br \/>\nLisbeth &#8211; Jonathan Morali<br \/>\nNew Perspectives &#8211; Jonathan Morali<br \/>\nNightbus &#8211; Jonathan Morali<br \/>\nWinter Woods &#8211; Jonathan Morali<\/p>\n<p>Resources:<br \/>\nFonts: Poppins, Fredoka One<br \/>\nArtwork: Fiona Marchbank @FionaCreates<br \/>\nMedia Logos: Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is Strange 2 stands out for being an overtly political game, explicitly tackling racism in a post-Trump A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":976423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20976],"tags":[343256,343257,343246,343247,343258,343259,343249,343255,8447,235391,343250,343245,238,18247,343252,21536,25247,343244,343242,343243,240,65931,343254,343253,226805,343251,20984,204407,343260,3171,27330,28366,241,343248,21523],"class_list":{"0":"post-976422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ps4-games","8":"tag-abolish-borders","9":"tag-abolish-ice","10":"tag-acab","11":"tag-all-cops-are-bastards","12":"tag-anti-racism","13":"tag-anti-racist","14":"tag-anti-police","15":"tag-border-control","16":"tag-daniel","17":"tag-daniel-diaz","18":"tag-defund-the-police","19":"tag-episodes","20":"tag-full-game","21":"tag-ice","22":"tag-left-wing","23":"tag-life-is-strange","24":"tag-life-is-strange-2","25":"tag-life-is-strange-2-characters","26":"tag-life-is-strange-2-game","27":"tag-life-is-strange-2-gameplay","28":"tag-playthrough","29":"tag-police","30":"tag-police-brutality","31":"tag-police-violence","32":"tag-powers","33":"tag-prison-abolition","34":"tag-ps4-games","35":"tag-racism","36":"tag-racist-police","37":"tag-sean","38":"tag-sean-diaz","39":"tag-superpowers","40":"tag-walkthrough","41":"tag-why-are-the-police-bad","42":"tag----2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/976423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}