In what was easily the most moving keynote of the second day of Inspirefest 2015, head of development at Spacekat Games, Brianna Wu, spoke of her daily experience of sexism in the gaming industry, and how the tide is turning against it.
As one of the most anticipated talks of the day, Wu’s opening lines came not from herself, but the hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter users who on a daily basis send her death threats, purely on the basis of her standing up for what she believes as a woman in the gaming industry.
Flashing past faster than you could possibly read them, Wu’s description of the number of tweets as an “avalanche” couldn’t be more accurate.
