Brenda Laurel

@theorrery Buddy?

What the hell is the name Bud short for?

@LoirL @VRWorldSociety Thanks so much for your appreciation. I handled this panel with a whip and an ice cream cone. Everyone worked really hard! So sorry that Tanya Leal Soto wasn’t able to join, but she was handling a real production problem, now solved!

This is the most engaging, conversational, and pertinent session so far. wonderful moderating by ⁦@blaurel⁩ @VRWorldSociety⁩ #AWE2019

@stevensato @VRWorldSociety @RylanJDaniels A guy like Rylan put me on my career path in 1978, Joe Miller RIP

@VRWorldSociety @RylanJDaniels @blaurel Congrats Rylan!!!!!

The Nextant Spirit Prize goes to @RylanJDaniels! #AWE2019 Presented by @blaurel. Congrats Rylan!

@NicoleLazzaro @CharityARtiste @virtualindaj @comogard @VRWorldSociety Hey if you’re gonna read it read the 2nd edition. Corrected for some historical interventions like the Internet and - Easter egg - called out JJ Abrams!

Congratulations @CharityARtiste winner of the ✨Rising Star ✨ August Award! #Awe2019 @virtualindaj @blaurel Tom Furness @comogard @VRWorldSociety

Charity Everett’s talk at AWE on her project “Go Back Fetch It” was truly inspirational. #AWE2019 #VWS

Charity Everett at AWE 2019 - we are all out of Africa #AWE2019

@ermmears Um. (Raising hand)

@andybudd Would love to join in.

If it’s any help I surveyed over 500 designers the end of last year. 27% self identified as UX Designers. 25.7% as Product Designers. 9.8% as Experience Designers.

I want to nominate SyncThink (https//syncthink.com) and Embodied Labs (https//embodiedlabs.com) for the IxDA awards! Both are doing awesome work! Nominations close Monday so get yours in! #nominationchallenge #IxDAwards

@asbruckman @liminalphase Still, I was personally attacked for “appropriation”, primarily by Quebecois women who were not native people. The story snowballed so that a year later an anonymous post at a conference said that I should never be admitted to Canada again because of my culture “crimes.”

@liminalphase @blaurel Just because people "have concerns" does not make those concerns reasonable. White supremicists are extremely concerned about cultural appropriation.....

Thread. #culturalappropriation is a topic making the rounds in part to an awful take in an anthro outlet. But a lot of the hot takes I'm seeing on Twitter are quite bad, too. So let's discuss what it is, what it isn't, and some examples. And then discuss! #anthrotalk

@asbruckman @liminalphase Sorry but I need to speak about this. We did not use aboriginal / First Nations / native art or symbols in Placeholder. Each image was designed by our artists. What we “borrowed” was the idea of petroglyphs. My inspiration came from petroglyph sites all over the world.

Brenda Laurel will be the @ixdaEducation Opening Keynote Speaker on Saturday. edusummit.ixda.org/program/

Vote for depriving anyone of Medicaid you, by your own book, will burn in hell. READ THE WORDS IN RED. #noexcuses

Mitch McConnell and his cronies are malignancies on the human spirit.

@Spacekatgal Because it's the most fun of your life to find a character in your head. Most actors don't have to do campaign commercials!

@funnymonkey @Spacekatgal What a jerk.

I will take a tax increase to support Medicaid and to protect the most vulnerable among us. Pass it on. @RealDTrump2k16

My husband just gave himself lesbian fingernails with a Swiss Army knife. We are so alike.

@marcusanz @VRWorldSociety @skydeas1 Thanks so much for this!

@danklyn Gotta love 'em. The gloves, I mean.