Video-game developer Zoë Quinn, 30, was the first public target of “Gamergate,” an online-harassment campaign directed at women in the industry. In her new book, she tells her powerful story of overcoming the haters
Zoë Quinn and I are part of a fairly exclusive club—one that’s larger than it should be and growing all the time. In 2014, after the successful release of Quinn’s game Depression Quest, her ex-boyfriend wrote a lengthy revenge blog post about his former relationship with her. When Quinn defended herself online, she was met with virulent trolls who published her private information, including her address, and barraged her with death and rape threats until, fearing for her own safety, she fled her home. The same thing happened to me after I, in my capacity as founder of Feminist Frequency—a website that analyzes the portrayal of women in pop culture—released a video examining sexist tropes in video games. In her book, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate (PublicAffairs), out this month, the Los Angeles–based Quinn not only tells her own story of surviving threats of violence and online harassment, but also schools readers on Web culture and, most important, how to fix the problem.
ANITA SARKEESIAN: WE MET BRIEFLY BEFORE GAMERGATE AND BECAME FRIENDS MONTHS LATER. I FOUND A LOT OF HEALING IN OUR CONVERSATIONS, BECAUSE I KNEW THAT I COULD TEXT YOU THE TWISTED THOUGHTS THAT COME FROM BEING A SURVIVOR OF TRAUMA AND YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND.
ZOË QUINN: I completely agree. You get left with so many gross, dark things that are just put in your brain by external forces, and most people cannot handle it. There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.
AS: PEOPLE FREQUENTLY APPROACH ME AND SAY, “I’VE BEEN HARASSED, BUT MINE WASN’T AS BAD AS YOURS.” I FIND IT SO DISHEARTENING; DOES THIS HAPPEN TO YOU, TOO?
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