Striving for a More Accountable and Inclusive Playgroup

Guests Tara, Jenn, and Haiyue join Andy and Anthony for a discussion on making play spaces that are more accountable and inclusive to help grow more diverse playgroups. Tara brings her perspective as a professional diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant; Jenn, their experience organizing and judging events; and Haiyue what she’s learned managing the VML, and, from all of them, much much more.

As Cube designers, our hosts and many of our listeners need to grow their communities as much as their Cube lists if they hope to play consistently. Our guests bring their broader perspective on why it’s so important to do that in an inclusive way and how to go about it.

Discussed in this episode:

• Episode 130: Cube Community Building
• 5 Steps to Break Down Gender Barriers in MTG by guest Haiyue
• How To Organize Inclusive And Accessible Events by guest Tara with help from other contributors
• The View From Here by Katie G. Bates
• Playing with Power — Inclusivity in Magic
• Safe and Brave Spaces Don’t Work (and What You Can Do Instead) by Elise Ahenkorah
• The VML
• CubeCon
• Redlining in the United States
• Magic the Gathering Infraction Procedure Guide
• Set Boundaries Find Peace Book by Nedra Tawwab
• No Land Beyond
• Tara’s Website

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• Andy’s “Bun Magic” Cube
• Anthony’s “Regular” Cube

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Musical production by DJ James Nasty.